Mr. Conor O'Connell:

I will try to be as quick as possible. We are extremely disappointed. At the end of July, the section 28 guidelines were issued. The Minister has written twice to local authorities. Some local authorities have been very proactive in zoning more land, but we are disappointed, to the say the least, that certain local authorities have not followed the Minister's request to zone more land at this stage and it seems there is no timeline for doing so. This is happening in the most populous areas of Ireland, where it is simply the case that development plans were adopted several years ago, land banks are being built on and no replacement land is coming forward. The supply of zoned land to the sector is being further constrained and it is becoming a crisis and an emergency.