Marc Ó Cathasaigh (Waterford, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

We can accept the historical situation that local authorities between 2010 and 2012 absolutely needed the bailout, and I think we can probably accept that we kissed a lot of frogs. There are 40-odd sites we are not seeing any movement on. A question arose as I was reading the material. Where is the endpoint? At what point do we say there are 40 sites that we cannot move on? Some sites have been disposed of. How many do we just dezone and list for some sort of other use?

I will give an example. I was trying to understand this, so I looked at my own local context to try to help me understand it. There is a site in west Waterford that I assume is in or around Tallow. We still have 4.3 ha there. I was thinking about 4.3 ha in the context of the area.

This is why I asked about the density. I was trying to get a handle on how many houses we are talking of and with the local knowledge of the context of that part of west Waterford I was thinking there is no way there is a demand for social housing that will fill 4.3 ha in that part of Waterford. At what point do we draw a line, dezone the land and try to move it on or whatever?