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

Obviously, I understand the difference between setting a macro target to 2040 and then what an individual Government does with regard to how it meets those targets within a five-year cycle. Given the statutory importance of the national planning framework, and given the fact that if you are not meeting unmet demand over a number of years unmet demand grows and therefore what you will need is your annualised average to be larger going forward, would it not make more sense for the national planning framework to speak to that directly? The Housing Commission is very clear because it goes out to 2037 but it wants the deficit frontloaded in the first five, six or seven years. I assume the bulk of the submissions that Mr. Hogan made reference to take a similar view. It seems to me that by not actually naming in that section of the national planning framework review document not only what the target should be on average out to 2050 but that it needs to be frontloaded, you are creating a situation where unmet demand will continue to grow. Even if you meet that 50,000, we will not be in a much better position in terms of meeting housing need. Clearly, a decision was taken not to support the recommendations of the commission. I would have thought the right place for that to be was actually in the planning framework itself.