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

I think we need it because as I said, the city is too small.

I want to go back to An Bord Pleanála. We want to build houses. We want to house people who are banging the door down in Ms Fanning's office. She has got more people knocking on her door than she has accommodation, and so have we. It seems to me that perfection is becoming the enemy of the good. If those 95 apartments were built, I am sure the three witnesses would be absolutely delighted to be able to say to they 95 families that they are giving them the keys. That would trigger a chain reaction, with 94 more HAP houses available and so on. Does Ms Fanning think, particularly with regard to social housing, that the Minister could issue an instruction, or an instruction could come from the Custom House, to vary this?

Everything stops because transport is not in place and it is a bit of a chicken-and-egg situation. They have built Swords and they have not put in the metro yet. Could the witnesses come back to us on that matter because it would be interesting to see how we resolve this?