Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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I did, but it was to be helpful. National policy objective No. 36 under the national planning framework states:

New statutory guidelines, supported by wider methodologies and data sources, will be put in place under Section 28 of the Planning and Development Act to improve the evidence base, effectiveness and consistency of the planning process for housing provision at regional, metropolitan and local authority levels. This will be supported by the provision of standardised requirements by regulation for the recording of planning and housing data by the local authorities in order to provide a consistent and robust evidence base for housing policy formulation.

That is there. That is done in every housing authority and every planning authority. It is published and detailed and it will continue to be. I imagine we will have quite a detailed further discussion on this when we reach Part 7. The reason I referred to it is because this Bill interacts with the Affordable Housing Act.

Part 7 clearly sets out future housing strategy, supply, types of housing and what all of this will have regard to. It is not just social housing; the position relating to affordable and cost rental housing is also detailed in it.