Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Deputy Ó Broin is right. The issue in Dún Laoghaire was energy; apartment sizes were more of an issue in Dublin City Council. The reality of that diktat, as I saw down the road from me a month afterwards, was a revised planning application and the whole development going down to the minimum standard. The Dublin city councillors, their planners, the city architects and others had a better understanding of what we need to do in Dublin than the then Minister, Deputy Kelly had. We have to make it really attractive to bring families into the city, in particular. That is how we will get the volume. It cannot just be all box apartments for students in the city centre. It cannot be just flats. It has to be family apartments. That means we have to set a high bar.