Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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I will get the details for the Deputy. I would not like to think that what we are saying here is that we are encouraging ribbon development. That is not at all the purpose of this. The purpose of Project 2040, which I know the Deputy may dispute, is that we are trying, for every climate reason and all sorts of reasons, to have compact and connected development on a sustainable basis. The bidder has to connect whatever is built in the area in which he builds, and in the baseline contract there is an envisaged possibility of what this might be.