Dr. Ronan Lyons:

My fellow commissioners could probably predict my reply. If we get the requirement right, then the rest has to follow. For too long, we have worked in a system that has refused to recognise the substantial housing need that exists. Recognising that, understanding there is a deficit of perhaps 300,000 homes at the moment and that we need perhaps 1.5 million homes over the next generation, putting that in writing and figuring out how we get from here to there in 25 years is the starting point.