Professor Michelle Norris:

-----pre-funded by a State organisation. This issue would merit more research, which is generally an academic's response to everything.

On market price housing on State land, having sat on the LDA's subcommittee that drew up its regular Report on Relevant Public Land, as it is called, one thing that struck me was that quite a few of the large land banks still remaining in local authority ownership in cities were adjacent to very large social housing developments. We see that on the northside of Cork, for instance, and in places like Ballymun and Cherry Orchard. In my view, decisions about the development of sites should be made on the merits of the site itself. Rather than a blanket rule, in some of those sites it may be appropriate to put in market housing. In other sites, it may not be appropriate to put in market housing for that reason. The decision is to be made on a site-by-site basis.