Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

The Department's IGEES unit produced a report on planning permissions and housing supply at the end of last year. The evidence it provides directly counters the Government's narrative about planning. The Government says again and again the problem is too many planning objections and that is why we cannot ramp up housing supply. The Department has produced a document that says that is absolutely not the case and identifies land banking, speculation and viability issues as the problem. Has the Minister of State any comment on that? Has he relayed these findings to his colleagues in Government?

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