Affordable housing Part V
Deputy O'Donnell calls for Part V affordable housing requirements to apply to all new estates and says many current schemes avoid the obligation. An interjection about a luxury home is brushed aside, and the Chair cuts him off for time.
I have raised previously the matter of affordable housing. I want Part V to be in place as a condition of planning permission for all new estates from now on. It is currently the case that if land was bought before 31 July 2021 and planning permission for it granted before July 2021, there is no requirement to provide 10% affordable housing under Part V. I am not talking about luxury homes like the one in Cabra owned by the Sinn Féin leader, Deputy McDonald, about which Shane Ross has posed questions in his new book.
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I am talking about ordinary people who want to live in their communities.
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There is a serious problem. Many new estates currently being built have no 10% affordable provision under Part V.