Ms Claragh Mulhern:

As the Deputy is aware, they are currently being progressed as two separate pieces of legislation but the intention is that they will be linked together. In terms of the timing, as Mr Hogan mentioned, we will come back to the committee in the coming weeks on that proposal with the intention then of trying to consolidate it through the Oireachtas process at a later stage. That covers land value sharing and urban development zones, which are currently referenced in the draft Bill. We will be going into further detail on those.

To come back to the point on the initial intention of the development contributions, they are quite closely linked to the land value sharing proposal in many ways. It was never our intention they would not be included in the legislation. In terms of the two parallel processes, however, the clarity in terms of the direction of travel on how exactly we were dealing with section 48 in particular has developed over the course of the work on the land value sharing and urban development zones Bill. The intention is very clearly to put sections 48 and 49 back into the main Bill. The intention is that when the Bill is finalised and published, it will include provisions to reflect those and any changes we propose to make to them.