Mary Fitzpatrick (Fianna Fail)
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I wonder if any of those stakeholders and those landowners have an appreciation of the pressures under which the Land Development Agency is trying to operate. The reality it that the agency has a plan here from 2024 to 2028. All the Opposition parties opposed the Land Development Agency legislation and if they are in power in 14 months after an election, they are likely to scrap the Land Development Agency. I wonder whether those other bodies have any appreciation of the need for the Land Development Agency to be able to demonstrate its capacity to deliver, at scale, social and affordable homes on State-owned lands. A really good example is the Broadstone depot in Phibsborough. I am very familiar with the site, which has been spoken about as a development site all my life. Thankfully, TUD in Grangegorman has got on with its side of it and it is the most spectacular world-class campus. Dublin City Council owns Constitution Hill Flats. The council has been talking about regenerating them for more than ten years. CIÉ and Dublin Bus own the depot lands. There could not be a better site where there could not be greater need for affordable and social housing, as well as a potential for all of the State bodies to demonstrate excellence. Is there a realisation amongst the other parties of the need and the opportunity that exist there?