Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

In defence of Deputy Munster, we have been asking these questions about the Rebuilding Ireland home loan regularly in the Joint Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government and in here. The local authorities are not releasing the funding because they do not believe that they will get the funding. That is for Deputy Munster to table questions about.

I will turn specifically to an announcement that the Minister, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, made in September 2018 about the establishment of the Land Development Agency, LDA, which was the big idea to deliver 150,000 homes over the next 20 years. Yesterday at the Joint Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government, I asked the head of the Housing Agency if any land had been transferred to the LDA. None has because we are still waiting for legislation. No primary legislation has been published. When will the legislation to underpin the Land Development Agency be published? Why do I have to read an article by Michael Cogley in the Sunday Independent stating that the Land Development Agency itself, with John Moran as the interim chairperson, has stated that it will not be covered under the Regulation of Lobbying Act? We need more transparency, not less.

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