Cian O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I thank the witnesses for their answers. My fundamental question about this is that some other European countries do active land management where the entire value uplift from the land being zoned or the change of use is captured publicly. We have a housing affordability crisis which is extreme and causing all sorts of problems for people. We also have the crisis around delivering infrastructure that is needed with housing. I absolutely accept it is progress, but by going for a model where we will be able to capture a substantial part of that value, and given that the value is entirely created from a public process of rezoning or change of use and indeed public investment in infrastructure, are we selling ourselves short by not trying to get a larger amount of that value, as was envisaged in the Kenny report?

I take the point that progress is progress, not disputing-----