Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 17 April 2024
Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed)
Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source
I ask the Minister to bear with me. There is a reason that is put in there, and it is a good reason, namely that segregation is not good. For years and years, planners and all sorts of people have been saying we have to deal with segregation and we need a more socially and environmentally sustainable form of planning and development that does not lead to segregation. That is why this is here. Anything that pertains to developing housing strategy that does not result in segregation is relevant to this discussion, first of all. I do not see, if the Minister agrees in principle that segregation is not a good idea, why he would use the word "undue". That implies that there is such thing as due segregation.
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