Mr. John Coleman:

I thank Deputy McGrath for the questions. I will take the zoned land piece first. We would welcome, with the revised national planning framework, the proposal to zone more land for housing purposes. Since the previous national planning framework, unforeseeable elements driving population growth meant that we probably do not have enough zoned land currently to deal with the housing need on foot of the population growth, so we would say the idea that local authorities will be looking to zone more land is welcome. The key part to that is ensuring that that zoned land is serviced and that the basic infrastructure of water services and electricity services, in order that they can both be connected, is addressed and planned for. We work with local authorities all the time to identify opportunities that could be brought forward and we hope to see some of those lands brought forward for residential development in the near future.

As regards judicial reviews, yes, it is a risk. Unfortunately, we have received a judicial review challenge relating to a planning permission we have for a large site in south Dublin, Dundrum Central Mental Hospital, the former mental hospital. The issue for us is that we are unable to get on with the development of that site. We have a revised planning application for nearly 1,000 homes. That has been lodged.

We hope to get a decision on that in the very near future, within the next couple of months. The problem is that it has delayed delivery of homes. Those 1,000 homes will accommodate approximately 2,500 people.