Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I would like to respond specifically to the points the Minister of State raised. I will not take too much time on this but it is important.

It is almost five years since these recommendations were made. It was July 2019. It seems to me that that is plenty of time to consider whether to progress any of them.

With respect to recommendation B.2, the Minister of State talked about the Part 8 derogation that was introduced a year ago. Not once when the Minister, Deputy O'Brien, spoke to that legislative change did he mention Travellers. It was about accelerating the delivery of social housing, particularly with respect to land aggregation scheme lands and new building technologies. Local authorities can choose to use that if they so wish. My local authority has one scheme and is using that, but that is not what was presented when that legislation was there. It is important we do not confuse the two things.

Recommendations B.3, B.7, B.9 and B.10 are all the responsibility of the Government, which is the reason they were not included in the 27 recommendations the programme board selected. My last question on this, then, is why these recommendations were not considered and included in this Bill. Does this Government have any intention to bring forward the legislative changes that would be required for recommendations B.2, B.3, B.7, B.9 and B.10 within the lifetime of this Government?