Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage
Seanad Éireann — 2021-11-16
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Darragh O'Brien (FF), Dublin Fingal

I will happily deal with that question. The Senator may not have had a chance to look into this, but that is exactly what this will do. Local authorities will have to submit that as part of their housing strategies. This is about tenure mix because home ownership is a tenure mix. Social housing is a tenure mix. Affordable housing is home ownership and we have got to make provision for that and prioritise it within the housing plans of all our local authorities and, indeed, the Land Development Agency, LDA. That is being reinforced within the legislation. We will have owner-occupier home ownership. I said I would bring in the owner-occupier guarantee. We have a little bit more work to do on that with regard to the specific planning permissions.

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Sitting date: 2021-11-16