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

I thank the Deputy again for the question. I understand what she is saying. One of the priorities I had when I became a Minister was to legislate for the LDA, which we have done. The agency has capitalised and it is delivering its first homes. It has done extensive work on planning and mapping out relevant sites.

It is important that people understand that the register of relevant lands will show the State-owned lands. I remember this coming up in debates before. It is not a question that high amenity or recreational lands will be used, even if they are included in the register. It will show what the zoning of those lands is and then we will decide what the appropriate use will be.

In communities where recreational land is zoned as such, we have enough idle State land to deliver homes on residentially zoned land or on brownfield sites within our towns and cities. Those are the sites we are going to be focusing on. I assure Deputy Connolly of this.

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