Mr. Ian Talbot:

We made a submission, but I have not looked at it for a few weeks so I cannot remember everything that was in it. The Deputy can look it up.

I mentioned such things as stand-alone housing as an area that can get difficult. Different communities have different views. The farming community has a clear view on stand-alone housing as well. However, every additional stand-alone house contributes to the complexity of building out energy grids and so forth.

I am trying to remember what we said about the national planning framework. More urgency is needed. There is a strong element of us needing to get something done, more than we are doing. If we get some stuff done, we can build on it. However, at the moment we are not getting enough things over the line quickly enough. It is worrying. I am not having a dig at Irish Rail; far from it. I am a commuter who lives in Malahide. We tried to make some changes to the rail line, but the project has fallen apart and we have to revert to the old way, which is very worrying. It was great to see changes being made to try to bring more frequent services, but even on the best bit of railway we have, we struggled to bring in that frequency. What we need to do to fix that is not clear. There was some talk of building four lines to Howth Junction or Balbriggan and that might solve it, but we should have a clearer view.