Mr. Hubert Fitzpatrick:

This brings us to a wider discussion that we need some form of brownfield renewal scheme. We need some form of scheme to make brownfield renewal more attractive. We would then achieve development in those city and town centre cores. We must move forward on that.

The point my colleague made was that the zoning was based on the national planning framework, NPF, projections that were prepared a number of years ago on the basis of levels of inward migration of 8,000 or 12,000 people per annum and low-level population growth. If we had more zoned land that was serviced, it would increase full competition in the market and drop the price of land.