Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

You have a housing supply target and a development plan which is countywide. Obviously, local authority members will identify the lands that are there and the lands that are zoned, and the Deputy will know this because he has been through development plans. We are not talking about zoning additional lands and arbitrarily putting permissions on them. It might be useful for members to know the conversion rate in recent years in every county of permissions granted to permissions activated. Some areas, thankfully, because of initiatives this Government has brought in, have been able to activate a lot of the permissions the Deputy is talking about because the State is partnering now to get them developed. That is a whole other discussion, so I will not go into that. That is good but we have to future-proof as well. We have to plan for a future growth of the population. How do we explain to citizens that we have zoned and serviced land, the sole reason for refusal of the development of which is that, on paper, we have reached our housing supply target even though they have not been delivered? I do not expect this to be something that will come up all the time or it should be very rare, but we have to protect against that happening, it being the sole reason for that-----