Kieran O'Donnell (Limerick City, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

In terms of sequencing, the housing strategy in section 219 will be prepared first. Obviously, that will inform. When you coming up with the overall housing development strategy, it is a spatial strategy throughout the development area. However, the core document in terms of housing is the housing strategy. That is why it is more pertinent to have it in terms of the household side. The same term as "headship" is catered for as well. Housing policy itself is under section 219. Planning and spatial strategy around housing is under section 44. Ultimately, any local authority will go away and prepare an in-depth housing strategy which could run to 100 pages. That forms part of the development plan. Within the development plan itself, they speak around the housing development strategy but when they are referring back in terms of detail and in terms of housing itself, they refer back to the housing strategy.

Some local authorities would do it in greater depth than others. Section 219 is the core and that is why I believe it is so. However, once again, we have agreed to go back to the OPC and see.