In defence of Deputy Munster, we have been asking these questions about the Rebuilding Ireland home loan regularly in the Joint Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government and in here. The local authorities are not releasing the funding because they do not believe that they will get the funding. That is for Deputy Munster to table questions about.

I will turn specifically to an announcement that the Minister, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, made in September 2018 about the establishment of the Land Development Agency, LDA, which was the big idea to deliver 150,000 homes over the next 20 years. Yesterday at the Joint Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government, I asked the head of the Housing Agency if any land had been transferred to the LDA. None has because we are still waiting for legislation. No primary legislation has been published. When will the legislation to underpin the Land Development Agency be published? Why do I have to read an article by Michael Cogley in the Sunday Independent stating that the Land Development Agency itself, with John Moran as the interim chairperson, has stated that it will not be covered under the Regulation of Lobbying Act? We need more transparency, not less.

The Deputy's time is up.

An agency which was set up in a skeletal form should not be saying what it will or will not be covered by. When the legislation is published, I expect that the Land Development Agency will be covered under the Regulation of Lobbying Act. I ask for a timeframe for the publication of the legislation.

I thank the Deputy for his question and his support of the Land Development Agency, which is an important measure in Project Ireland 2040 and Rebuilding Ireland.

I have not actually seen the legislation.

The Land Development Agency has been established on an interim basis under the Local Government Services (Corporate Bodies) Act. It has an interim board and a CEO.

I know that. When will the legislation be published?

It is hiring people. It also has €20 million of funding. Nothing is preventing it from progressing the initial eight sites that it has, which it is working on.

The Minister is so wrong.

It has another seven sites in the pipeline. We will establish it on a statutory basis and capitalise it with €1.25 billion worth of funding.

When is the legislation coming?

I am in discussions with the Attorney General about finalising the heads of the Bill which we hope to publish in the coming weeks. Nothing is preventing the Land Development Agency from doing the work that it is doing.