Tom Morrissey (Progressive Democrats)

My attention was drawn to an advertisement in the daily newspapers last week calling for a land development opportunity in Dublin. This was advertised by the group recently established by the Government to provide some of these houses under Sustaining Progress. It asked for lands that were zoned but also not zoned, which drew my attention. It asked for owners of unzoned lands to come forward to become involved in this unique development opportunity. I have two concerns. Is this an acknowledgement that the Part V provisions do not accommodate the thousands of acres of land zoned for housing in Dublin? What implications for forced developments will this have for county councils across Dublin? Developers might come forward to state they made a deal at governmental level under Sustaining Progress for a certain amount of affordable housing units on land not previously zoned, which would force the local authorities to zone that land in the future. I request that the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government come to the House to clarify this issue.