Billy Timmins (Wicklow, Renua Ireland) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Acting Chairman for his indulgence. I have a small pragmatic point to make, which does not involve rent supplement, pension funds or development properties. Why does the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government not tell the local authority directors of planning and housing to approach the people who had lodged planning applications and ran into difficulties in recent years to bring forward proposals to build houses? We need housing supply. From what I have seen of local authorities, with the best will in the world, they will not solve the problem.

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