Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 3 November 2020

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Referendum on Right to Housing: Discussion

Ms Rebecca Keatinge:

I absolutely hear the concerns. This is something that needs to be engaged with and needs to be acceptable to everybody. This is not about people who live in cities, although I appreciate the discussion seems to be focused on that.

In terms of "adequacy", we have gone for that word because adequacy does not encompass just simply the physical dimensions of where people are living but also encompasses a range of aspects of the type of housing, including infrastructure. All of those elements would require planning, legislation, resources and political will, so there is a whole element to that which is not within the scope of this proposal. However, I point to the general comments that I highlighted. It is not proposed that this would simply protect a structure; this is designed to promote housing and living in the broad sense of the word. I will pass over to Ms Hennigan.

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