Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 27 January 2015
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht
General Scheme of Planning and Development (No. 1) Bill 2014: (Resumed) Discussion
2:25 pm
Mr. Bobby O'Connell:
The proposed legislation includes a requirement that developers provide up to 10% of units for social and affordable housing in developments of nine units or more. Let us say a developer has a substantial site that is capable of holding 30 houses but decides to build four separate developments, each with eight houses. In that way, he or she would be building 32 houses, but he or she would not have to provide 10% of units for social and affordable housing. That is an escape clause.
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