Having said that, we are dealing with one area of the Act on which I will focus my attention. The objective of the Bill is to increase total housing supply and help increase the supply of social and affordable housing. Serious difficulties have emerged with the implementation of Part V. The legislation was too rigid and created serious delays in the framing of planning applications. This has caused, not only difficulties in meeting the requirements of providing the 20% of units as social or affordable housing, but has also seriously reduced future housing supply by reducing the number and volume of residential applications.