Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 12 April 2017

Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage

9:00 am

Photo of Eoin Ó BroinEoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I do not think anything the Minister has just said contradicts my interpretation of how he phrased it the first time. It was Deputy Alan Kelly who introduced the legislation. Essentially, the Minister has set a minimum standard which is also a ceiling. In respect of the apartment sizes in Dublin City Council, he has just said that the minimum is also the ceiling. It is a standard below which we cannot go. As we saw in the intervention of the previous Minister, however, it is also a standard above which we cannot go. I ask the Minister to consider two things-----

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