Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

I am saying that in developing national frameworks, planning statements or development plans - any of these processes for planning and development - there should be a specific requirement to look at social and affordable housing need. To date, and what is being proposed here, we only look at housing need. There is no requirement to break it down in terms of the types of housing and I think that is a mistake. I was going to give an example. I remember way back when we were doing the Cherrywood SDZ, when I was a councillor. I suggested that rather than look at how many units we would build, we also needed to look at how many social and affordable housing units we were going to build as part of Cherrywood. I was told that it was not a planning matter-----