I noted the Taoiseach's response on the issue raised by Deputy McDonald, which I raised last week, concerning the Bartra Capital Property Group's plan for 200 boxes with fold-out beds in Dún Laoghaire. Today is the last day for submissions. Given the Taoiseach's response, I suggest that the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government make a submission to An Bord Pleanála saying that this development would be completely out of order and is an abuse of the strategic housing development, SHD, process. That is a direct appeal.

The Taoiseach is going to do that.

The unscrupulousness of property speculators in Dún Laoghaire seems to know no bounds. The latest ruse, which I would also ask the Minister to examine, sees property agents in the Cualanor and Honeypark developments, which were in NAMA before being sold to vulture funds and so on, using a very obscure calculation of people's income in order to rule out housing assistance payment, HAP, tenants. Even when the council has said that, in respect of two cases that I have received, the incomes of the HAP tenants, who are working, are sufficient to be able to rent these properties, the property agents are doing another obscure calculation in order to make an excuse for telling the tenants that they cannot rent the properties to them. The real reason is because they are in receipt of HAP. As a matter of urgency, will the Minister examine this issue as well?

I thank the Deputy for the question. In my ministerial role, I appoint the chairperson of An Bord Pleanála. For the first time ever in the history of the State, earlier this year I appointed an independent planning regulator, Mr. Niall Cussen, to oversee all of our plans under the national planning framework, all of the work being done by local authorities and their planning offices, and An Bord Pleanála. It would not be appropriate for me to make an observation on an individual planning application. That would be an abuse of power.

This is an abuse of the system.