Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

That is difficult. The agencies involved, and all State agencies, have to be very conscious of the predicament families find themselves in when someone makes a declaration that a house will be purchased via CPO or taken over. It causes genuine stress and anxiety. It can also put people into a state of limbo for many years whereby they are not in a position to do anything. That is not satisfactory.

The wider issue is the need to streamline our planning. Day after day, people talk about the crisis in housing and getting infrastructure projects through. The public transport system takes an inordinately long time in terms of getting railway orders and all of that. Offshore wind will be the next big agenda. We are in the middle of an energy crisis. We are trying to get out of fossil fuels as quickly as we can and reduce our dependency on them. The only effective way of reducing our dependency on fossil fuels is offshore wind, on top of onshore wind.

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