Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

My experience is that we have bought hectares of zoned residential land. The Minister cannot tell me how many planning permissions. He cannot come back and say what the problems are and resolve those problems. Instead of that, as part of this amendment, as well as building in 4% and 4% and 4%, which is 12% over three years, in these rent pressure zones, which presumably will include Galway, he is also planning to hand over public land that we bought at astronomical prices to plan forward for housing. They are currently paying astronomical interest rates on that in Galway City Council as they are doing in other local authorities. We will now hand over that public land to developers to build on. It beggars belief. Are we speaking-----

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