Thank you, Minister. I call Deputy Darren O'Rourke.

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The Minister, in response to my colleague, Deputy Doherty, earlier, said he wants to smash the housing targets. I am not sure whether he has told the Office of the Planning Regulator about that or amended the national planning framework or told a single local authority in the State.

In Meath, we have a track record of delivering houses but there are nowhere near enough. The Meath County Council housing delivery action plan targets are shy by 2,000 out to 2027 and there will be more people going onto the housing list than houses being built. To buy a house in the private market, people are looking at in excess of €485,000 for a three-bedroom property. We are ahead of the game in regard to our county development plan but as soon as it was adopted, it was out of date because it was based on the 2016 census figures and population projections that were grossly underestimated, although they were the basis for the national planning framework, NPF. For example, the town of Dunshaughlin could grow by 6,000 people up to 2027 and there are 8,500 people there already. Will the Minister immediately review the housing targets for County Meath and ensure they are consistent with national, regional and local plans?

I go back to what I said to Deputy Doherty, namely, it is about quality and not just quantity, and we need to get balanced and good quality planning and development. I believe the national planning framework is correct in that we need more balanced regional development, more compact development and low carbon development. That means we need to see Cork, Galway, Waterford and Limerick in particular thrive as counterbalances to the rapid growth of the greater Dublin area. Half of the new housing is going into the greater Dublin area but it will not work for Dubliners or for people in Meath, Wicklow or Louth if everything happens in the east. We need that better balanced regional development. That is not to say we do not develop Meath but it means we do not abandon the national planning framework and the key policy decisions behind it. Yes, we need more housing but we have to make sure it is balanced in terms of being located right across the country and, in particular, those other cities need to grow.