Noel Ahern (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)

The question is whether the local authority can dictate to, or work with, a developer to provide the type of houses we need. The local authorities may need to be more proactive. Maybe until now they have been sitting back dealing with planning applications as they come in but if a developer sends in an application for 100 five-bedroom houses to sell at €1.2 million, there is nothing one can do to make them affordable.

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