Last Thursday, I was the first Deputy to bring up and condemn the proposed Bartra so-called co-living development in Dún Laoghaire, which has now sparked a national controversy. Indeed, we have been campaigning in the local area against this shameful, greed-driven development for the last number of weeks and have submitted an objection under the strategic housing development, SHD, process. I brought this up with the Tánaiste last Thursday. Has the Minister reflected, given the response from housing NGOs and so on, as to whether a 16 m² room with a fold-out bed, for which people will be paying €1,300, is the sort of accommodation we need to address the housing crisis? On a question I asked him last week, although he did not answer, is it not an abuse of the strategic housing development fast-track planning process to even consider such a proposal? Is it not, in fact, a manifesto for modern day tenements, with 42 people sharing a kitchen?

The time is up.

Will the Minister reconsider this? This is just greed and profiteering by some of the Celtic tiger developers who helped crash this economy. Now, they are at it again on a site-----

Please, Deputy.

I will conclude on this. Now, they are at it again on a site that local people have been campaigning to get public and affordable housing on for years, and these greedy people want to grab it for tenements. It is absolutely shameful.

I cannot talk about an individual planning application which is under review but we should not rush to judgment on the basis of one planning application. The Deputy might have raised this last Thursday but I talked about these guidelines a year and half ago, and they were welcomed then because they have been successful in other cities for some people who want that choice, and this is about bringing choice to everyone. Too many people in the country at the moment do not have a choice when it comes to a housing solution and that is what we are trying to fix.

A choice to live in a box. It is worse than a hub.

Please allow the Minister answer.

These are new guidelines and the first applications are coming in. Of course, we will keep them under review but they were developed looking at best practice abroad. I believe the interpretation of them is straightforward in terms of what we are trying to achieve and the benefits they will bring to people, who are perhaps only going to be working for a short period in this country or who need some sort of transitional accommodation, such as moving from student accommodation-----

It is not what we need in Dún Laoghaire.

That is not a decision the Deputy gets to make.

Ask the people in Dún Laoghaire.

What we are trying to do is provide choices for the people who are looking for homes.

It is not allowed under this SHD process. They cannot even have an input.