Ms Anne Marie O'Connor:

On the issue the Senator raised regarding Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, what we were trying to achieve was more about prioritising the development of lands. Even though we acknowledge there are an awful lot of lands that are very well located and accessible by public transport and by walking and cycling infrastructure, there were also lands that were not as immediately accessible. What we wanted to see in the development plan was a very clear plan for the prioritisation of those better located lands and an acknowledgement that certain other lands would take longer to release because of a need for infrastructure capacity. It is not the case that we were saying we should not build any additional housing in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown but rather that there needed to be a plan-led approach to the phasing and implementation of the housing targets for the county.