Mary Seery Kearney (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Maybe this would be the case if you had that pre-application engagement, that Ms Cadell has described. I can think of one development recently that was all build-to-rent in the middle of a community where people were desperate to downsize, or rightsize which is more appropriate, but did not want to have to move outside of their community. The development was way too densely planned anyway but if people had an opportunity to buy, there would have been fewer objections. One of the main drivers of objections was people saying they wanted to live in the community they had lived in for the previous 40 years since they got married, moved in, reared their children, and sell their property, but they could not because the development was build-to-rent and there were thoughts that maybe a deal had already been done with a multinational. They were not going to have an opportunity to access them. If that engagement was there prior to application stage, the need in the local community, the demands and what would work, could be looked at. However, it is driven by other factors such as finance and taxation.