Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Too often, we have a lot of loose legislation stating the Minister "may" do this or that. Not often enough do we state a Minister "shall" do this or that. Unless we make firm decisions and put them in legislation, we will, too often, not see the right thing done. This is because those making decisions will have too much wriggle room to do what we would prefer they did not do.

To address the Minister of State's point on funding, am I to understand he is struggling with funding and that there is not as much available as he would like?

On the point he made about allowing State land to be used to be built upon by builders, I agree 100% with getting builders to build on State land. What I do not agree with is getting developers to do it who will make a developer's profit on top of everything else.

The Minister of State might answer my question on funding. I did not realise the position and do not quite understand it. I acknowledge there are challenges. Is there a challenge in getting funding as quickly as the Government would like?

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