Verona Murphy (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Okay. Rather than get bogged down, what I and many others have been stating for three years is that the planning policy is the issue. You can go away from the war in Ukraine, interest rates and construction inflation. Nothing has changed, and nothing has changed since Mr. Doyle was here last year, except that the Department most certainly will not meet its targets this year, and if the Department does, it will be because it is wasting the taxpayers' money. I am asking what consideration the Department has given to changing the planning policy and reducing the densities to what not only will make them viable but affordable and that is in the realm around the country of fewer than 30 dwellings per hectare.