Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 11 October 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Implementing Housing for All: Discussion
Mr. Frank Curran:
We have work progressing on one site which was designed by our team of in-house architects. It will have a retail unit on the ground floor which will be available to rent. As Mr. O'Reilly said, one of the biggest issues is fire regulations and a separate means of access. It makes this difficult. Premises abroad, particularly in Europe, use sprinklers and similar systems, so particular means of access are not required. The County and City Management Association, CCMA, has a housing, building and land-use sub-committee, which asked the Department to look at the fire regulations to see if we can get more units to be compliant with them and to see if the regulations can be more realistic.
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