Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 7 March 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism

Services and Supports Provided by the State for Autistic People: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Dharragh Hunt:

I will pick up on the point relating to universal design, UD, and the lifetime cost of homes. We are doing a piece of work on that. He mentioned that the building industry might have an agenda in terms of universal design of homes. We are doing a piece of work to get the costs of a regular home and a UD home costed by quantity surveyors to try to make the case that most of us will need our homes to be adapted at some point and, a bit like investing in green technologies through their lifetime, if homes can be designed in a UD way from the beginning, the lifetime cost will not be as great. It will be necessary to convince stakeholders and the building industry of that but we are doing-----

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