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

That is fair enough. The language is that this is to be a strategy, so it is a statement of intent by the maker of the housing development strategy. It is an intent and does not specify that anyone has to do anything. The Bill uses language to say the State should be cognisant of the whole-life carbon emissions of the strategy when it is looking to prioritise compact urban development sites. It is not putting some obligation on anybody and is simply to say “This is our strategy” or “This is our intent”. It does not necessarily mean it will be complied with but it is the strategy of the State that this is what we want.