Tommy Broughan (Dublin Bay North, Independent) | Oireachtas source

On the same subject, developers often want fast-track processes but, once permissions are granted, they keep coming back seeking higher heights, densities and so on. The Minister, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, held a consultation on strategic housing development, to which I made a submission proposing that he end that process and return to democratic planning.

The Minister has talked about use it or lose it measures and has mentioned all kinds of dramatic moves to increase housing output. Is he serious about any of this? Will he bring forward any legislation? Is it not time to get rid of the strategic housing development, SHD, system that has failed? It has failed because two thirds of the sites with permission still have not been built on. Developers are still hoarding land. That is the key point. Will the Minister try to stop land hoarding by bringing forward urgent legislation?

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