Francis Noel Duffy (Dublin South West, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Cathaoirleach. As always, I thank our guests for their statements. I had a number of questions about delivery I am not going to ask because we are all trying to deliver housing. Thus, my question is about collaboration. Do the three organisations here meet to co-ordinate housing delivery in the context of infrastructure or have they in the past? With that, do they effectively lobby us or the Department to tell us how we can deliver better? With respect to that State-led infrastructure, have the organisations made those proposals to the Department? This type of infrastructure is already here. In South Dublin County Council there is Grange Castle and as far as I know the council built all the roads and put in the infrastructure, so it is there for business and I am not sure why it is not for housing. I think the Spanish system may work this way as well, in that the local authority gets in, builds out the roads and infrastructure and then the developer comes in afterwards, so the problem is not there at the beginning. Are the organisations aware of the Spanish system or do they know why we cannot adopt the IDA Ireland-local authority business park system in development plans and deliver housing that way? Has that already been done and kicked back?