Cian O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

To clarify, when I talk about affordability, I am not just talking about tenure type. You can have affordable housing, affordable rent or rent as a tenure type. I am talking about affordability in general. One of the blockages for people in accessing housing in cities in terms of compact growth is affordability. It can be more affordable to access housing such as private tenure housing in less built-up areas out into the countryside and so forth away from cities. The issue of affordability in general and not as a tenure type is a key challenge when it comes to ensuring more compact and city-focused growth. Is that addressed in the revised NPF? Are there any measures or solutions in terms of planning framework policies to boost affordability? I have put forward plenty of them during the debate on the Planning and Development Bill in the Dáil in terms of bringing in things like affordable housing zoning, which works well in other countries, but they have not been accepted. Are there other measures here to address affordability seeing that the kind of measures I have put forward have not been taken on board?