Dr. Conor O'Toole:

Depending on the system and the structure they will either put it out for tender at market prices or alternatively, they will make it available for social or affordable housing. You can build into your structures and systems what you feel is the right use of that parcel of land. The aim, rather than having a passive view on land as a market where you are selling and the prices are coming through, is that you are actively using that input into the factors of production to be able to say that we need to target that piece of land, get it ready, get it serviced, that we need this type of housing on it, and we will put into the system in that shape and form so it can be developed. The Land Development Agency is obviously playing a greater role in trying to get to the State lands working more productively but we can think more broadly about trying to get land much more actively serviced and into the system in Ireland.