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

That is made clear. I will move to page 65 of the Department's amendment document, where a very interesting change is outlined. It will be remembered that what was national policy objective 10a was the creation of a national regeneration and development agency. In the language of the original NPF, NPO 10a clearly meant an active land management agency. In fact, at that stage, Mr. Hogan will remember the idea of transforming that into a residential developer was not the thinking within the Department. Niall Cussen rightly wanted, in line with the National Economic and Social Council, NESC, the ESRI and others, a very strong, active land management agency.

Removing NPO 10a and replacing it with NPO 21 is not really reflective of, "We said we were going to do something and we have done it." It is a very significant shift. There is no longer an objective that is about active land management. There is simply a removal of that and a statement of the purpose of the LDA, which is primarily a residential developer. Given the struggles the LDA has with active land management, and without making a comment about that because this is a high-level strategic document, are we not losing something by not having that high-level objective of active land management, which was the original intention of NPO 10a? I suspect that when Mr. Cussen and the team were drafting that, they never thought there would be a residential developer. They wanted the proposed agency to deal with land. Is something not being sacrificed in the changing from objective 10a to objective 21?