Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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The process they entered into was an application to change the zoning from residential to the respective use they presently have. In a majority of those instances, based on the data we have received, that has been refused by local authorities. That is why we have this challenge and why we are trying to develop a mechanism that resolves it in a context of ensuring we have a tax, which this Government obviously advanced. However, the unintended consequence which has crystallised this year is addressed in the context of what we have seen happen in the past number of weeks and months in our wider engagement with farmers and communities in every county in the country.