Thomas Gould (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I have just one question on a comment made earlier. Mr. Jones spoke about the over-zoning of land and that we have too much over zoned land. Cork City Council has recently brought forward its new city development plan. The Office of the Planning Regulator, OPR, suggested that the council had over-zoned the land and it had to go back and take some sites out. Then there were sites that were zoned for years. We are in the middle of a housing crisis. There is zoned land everywhere yet we have a shortage of housing. I am aware that the Bill will take time, but in the witnesses' opinion will those zoned lands that have been zoned for years be developed more quickly or go through planning more quickly rather than people just sitting on them? Will it make a difference?