Pádraic McCormack (Galway West, Fine Gael)

I thank the Minister of State for his reply. I knew everything he said prior to him saying it. He has passed the buck back to the local authority which has made decisions in cases. I can quote cases where the developer offered land for social housing which was 30 miles away from his development within the same local authority area. The Minister knows this situation is farcical because he backed out of making developers allocate 20% of their housing in any development for social housing because pressure was brought to bear on the Government.

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