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

I will be brief. For absolute clarity, and it may help the Minister of State's officials at some later stage, the issue is that it is simply not appropriate - the OPR has made this case and I do not disagree - to have a blanket rule that a percentage of a development has to be X, Y or Z. That cannot be done. However, granular data on need could be built into the consent process that would mean the local planning authority that is making a decision, for example on a development that does not include right-sizing where the data shows that right-sizing is required, should provided for that need and make it a condition of the grant of permission. That would require a housing need and demand assessment, HNDA, tool that is much more sophisticated than the one that is currently being used. We cannot use the proposition being made because it does not work, but it is also not the right way to do it.