Colm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael)
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Looking at what the approved housing bodies have delivered and what local authorities have delivered, are there lessons to be learned as regards why it is so slow for a local authority to deliver? If one looks at the timescale from the time an approved housing body identifies a project to finishing delivery and the time a local authority identifies a project and delivers, are there lessons the be learned? We are now so reliant on approved housing bodies and moving away from a reliance on local authorities in real terms. Is now not a time to examine this to see how we can expedite the process within local authorities to identify the project and move it forward on a faster timescale? I have seen in my local authority area, Cork City Council, that projects have been identified but still have not progressed. In fairness, it has moved forward a huge number of projects but there is still a number of projects that could have moved a lot faster than what occurred.