Isn't it time that our developers and builders saw themselves as part of the general community, and worked for the interests of everyone, not just their own profits? Isn't it time that they considered themselves part of society, not apart from it? . In order to avoid these problems, while still not letting the builders off the hook for their social responsibilities, I suggest that such planning permissions should be given an extension of their duration, beyond the two year limit, provided that the appropriate percentage of the houses or sites are transferred to the local authority as social and affordable housing, in accordance with the authority's housing strategy, before the end of the two years. The mechanism for such provision is in-built into the Planning and Development Act, where it allows the Minister to make amending regulations where he considers it necessary to ensure the full and proper working of the Act.