Richard O'Donoghue (Limerick County, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I thank Mr. Hogan for his answer. There are lands in different areas of County Limerick, for example, in Croom. At the moment, there is serviced land in Croom but the infrastructure's sewerage capacity only allows for 300 more units but the land zoned for development is for up to 1,000 units. There is serviced land, which has been taken over, but there is also a problem with capacity on an existing serviced land system, which goes back to my question. There are lands which are serviced but capacity in the current systems will not allow for development. Will they also fall under the residential zoned land tax if the services and infrastructure are not there to facilitate the development? Regarding zoning and an urban to rural perspective, I presume most of the urban areas can develop, whereas rural areas cannot because of the infrastructure on zoned land projects. I wish to close the divide, because there is development land but no infrastructure. We are on the back foot when we want to develop and get people into the areas for transport etc. Will the witnesses comment on that?