Where I come from in the northwest one can still buy a site for €25,000 to €30,000. Many young couples, with the help of family, friends and those in the building business, can muster the price of a site and build a house. It might not be finished for ten or 15 years but at least they have a roof over their heads to rear a young family. Those people could easily be on the council housing lists referred to today – and most of them should be – but because they are people who get out and work they provide a home for themselves. People are frightened by going through the rigours of planning applications – I deal with that every day. After getting planning permission one then has objections lodged with An Bord Pleanála, which holds up the project for another 12 or 14 months. An Taisce has now become a new force to consider, objecting to people providing homes for themselves who would otherwise have to get the State to provide housing for them. That is wrong and this matter needs to be investigated.