Part V of the Planning and Development Act, 2000, compels developers to provide 20% of the units they build for social and affordable housing. This has proven to be unworkable, not least due to the absence of a consistent approach by local authorities. An increase in respect of all existing two year planning permissions to five years should be made in cases where builders make voluntary agreements with local authorities in respect of social housing, a point with which the Minister dealt. Abandoning the current provisions and charging a levy on each housing unit instead would provide a more effective means of funding social housing. Using this approach would give the Government the money it needs to fund the provision of social housing. How does the Minister propose to collect such a levy and is he in a position to guarantee that it will – this is a point of the utmost importance – be passed back to the purchaser?