Micheál Carrigy (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The croí cónaithe scheme has been fantastic and we can see it in every single town throughout the country. However, we need to compensate local authorities that have reduced their vacant stock by spending a considerable amount of their own resources. The compensation should, perhaps, be a bit more than the €11,000 because the reality is that it is costing a significant amount more.

On the single-stage process, an issue that came up with the CCMA and its chair, Eddie Taaffe, when he was here, was about it taking two and a half to three years. That is solely for council development. What about turnkey developers in through the council? Is that same four-stage process going to be there for those projects or are we looking at reducing that process where it is a developer-led project with the local authority?