Noel Ahern (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)

Some of the large estates have ten-year planning permissions, which means that they will still be building them, yet we will not be getting a Part V dividend from them during that period. That is the reason. Nobody escapes. All new planning permission is subject to Part V. As mentioned earlier, in some cases developers agree with local authorities to give cash but that only happens in a minority of cases. To date, €17 million has been given, which has been ploughed back into the provision of social housing. The figures are finally coming right because——

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