The Taoiseach all but refused to answer my question on promised legislation on the matter I am raising today and so I am going to try again. The question is about segregation of Part V council tenants. In light of the situation in the Davitt apartment complex in Drimnagh and others around Dublin and in light of the fact that Part V tenancies are set to become even more important for housing supply with the increase in Part V requirements in Housing for All from 10% to 20%, how will the Government ensure that there is no physical or social segregation of Part V tenants now and into the future? The Taoiseach would not answer that question yesterday.

We now have numerous examples of council tenants being housed in segregated blocks, not given access to communal facilities that have been promised to them and not given the chance to pay fees to access amenities. Council tenants in the Davitt complex were not given access to the bike sheds. An Bord Pleanála approved planning permission on the Davitt complex with 119 car parking spaces for 265 apartments based on an argument by the developer that included the Davitt complex having extra bike parking spaces. Council tenants were not given access to bike lockup. How is this not being denied access to a communal amenity?

The complex was built on build-to-rent standards where the developer was allowed to trade off less private space and storage in individual apartments in exchange for more communal amenities. All communal amenities should be accessible for everybody in the complex. In the Planning and Development Act the need to counteract segregation based on social background is mentioned twice. It is mentioned seven times in the Housing Agency's Part V resource pack. It is mentioned three times in the ministerial guidelines on the Planning and Development Act.

In Drimnagh, council tenants in the Davitt House flats beside this complex have been left for decades in slum-like conditions with no maintenance, no retrofitting, damp, mould and cold. Living next them are Part V tenants in the Davitt complex segregated into one block, block D, with no access to the playground, car park or bike sheds. Next to them are non-council tenants with access to a car park, a cinema, a gym and a library. If this is not segregation based on social background, I do not know what is. I have serious concern for the future of the Government's housing plan if it is already neglecting and segregating council tenants. What will the Government do to make sure these issues of segregation are fixed now? These apartments were supposed to be pepper-potted into the complex so that there would be no segregation.

This is the Government's housing plan and it is expanding it. If there is an issue with councils implementing it, what will the Government do to step in and fix it?

I must apologise because I am not familiar with the detail of this particular case, the Davitt complex, but we will certainly look into it. I want to underline what the Government position is. Our position is that we support integration. The best developments around the country have a mix of tenure types, of house types and apartments, involving private, cost-rental, social and affordable housing. We certainly do not support segregation. There may well be a role here for the local authority to work out the application of Part V with the developer to ensure that there is proper integration and certainly not segregation.

The change to Part V is a positive development which means that in all future private developments we have Part V social and Part V affordable housing embedded within those developments. I have seen many examples in the past where the integration of Part V in developments has been seamless and invisible which is the way it should be. That is the nature of the integrated model of housing that we want to have in our country.

The Deputy has raised a very particular issue which warrants a considered response from the local authority, the approved housing body, AHB, if one is involved and indeed the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. We will certainly raise the issue with them. I want to be crystal clear as to what the Government position is. We support integration. We do not support segregation. Part V should be seamless in its application because it is a very positive thing to have social affordable purchase and private housing all situated together.

The Davitt complex is one complex that we are very clear on because we have heard it directly from the horse's mouth, the tenants living there. We know it has happened elsewhere in the city. We are going in a very serious direction if we are going to have segregation. Those in block D are all council tenants. Tuath Housing is managing the 26 homes in block D that do not have access to the basic amenities in that complex. That cannot be allowed to happen and it must change. It was raised at a meeting of Dublin City Council last week and the housing manager said that they were told it was €81.50 to avail of the amenities in the complex and €75 for car parking spaces. These tenants are hospital workers and actors who do not have huge amounts of money to pay for these things. Either the council should refund that or the situation on access to amenities should be sorted out at the planning stage. This was a build-to-rent standard where the spaces in the apartments were reduced on the basis that the tenants would have access to amenities. This needs to be dealt with.

Tuath Housing and Dublin City Council need to come back with a response on the issue. At the level of principle where amenities or facilities are being provided for development, they must be provided to all. How people came to occupy the property, whether it be Part V or private purchase, should not be the basis of denying anybody access to shared amenities. As the Deputy said, these were build-to-rent standard. That is the principle and that is the policy. We will ask the bodies to come back on the detail of this and lessons may need to be learned about at what point in the process to pin down exactly the application and treatment of Part V and where the units are going to be. It should not require planning conditions to ensure that all residents of a development be treated equally and have access to all the facilities and amenities in a development. If that is what it takes, that will need to be done.