Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

With regard to compact urban growth in particular, if one looks at cost rental, for argument's sake, one thing Deputy Gould never mentions is the cost-rental scheme right in the middle of Cork city at Lancaster Gate, which is a fantastic development. Unfortunately, it is the only city-centre cost rental that is tenanted at present. We have many good developments around Delgany, in Balbriggan in my own area and in Kildare, which are great. However, I wish to see more densified developments within our cities. We have an opportunity to do that through the viability measures. The Chairperson is 100% right in saying that. Through the viability measures, about which some people jumped up and down today without even reading them, we have an opportunity to get those developments activated, including the waiving of the development levy and the water connection fee. Savings can be up to €20,000 per apartment based in densified developments. It is a significant saving which Deputy O'Donoghue mentioned earlier on. I expect the main Opposition party and others to tell the individual who is building his or her own house, in the village in County Cork or in the village in County Longford, that they want that individual to pay the development levy and the water fee over the next year and to tell him or her not to apply for the waiver. This is a real saving for real people.