Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It would be very useful. I hear what Ms MacEvilly is saying about equity and the public. However, equity is always in the view of the beholder. The one-off house owner does not anticipate this cost and therefore they are not making submissions to public consultations. Ms MacEvilly and I have been around long enough to know that public consultations are very much the province of the professionals but there are not that many professionals championing one-off houses. That is why this committee is dealing with this issue. Inevitably the politicians will need to decide the equity issue here.