We are now going to have a two-tier sector in public housing with some people living in better quality, better designed, healthier and happier environments and apartments and others consigned to smaller, darker and less well-served apartments. There is significant mixed tenure in these guidelines for apartments but we will not get any two-beds, three-beds and four-beds unless we make an adjustment so we can amend the viability of the apartment blocks to get them built so people can have those homes to live in.
Seanad mendment No. 24 proposes to introduce a new section 44B into the Act of 2000 providing a certification procedure for modifications to planning permissions for residential development which are in line with certain specific planning policy requirements contained in the recently published Planning Design Standards for Apartments, Guidelines for Planning Authorities 2025.
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Tellers: Tá, Deputies Eoin Ó Broin and Rory Hearne; Níl, Deputies Mary Butler and Emer Currie.
| Question | Result | Tá–Níl |
|---|---|---|
| Seanad amendment put: | Carried | 88–68 |
| Question put: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." | Lost | 69–88 |
| Amendment put: | Carried | 88–69 |
| Question put: "That the motion, as amended, be agreed to." | Carried | 88–69 |
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