Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

They are all flawed because this is a positive proposal. The idea that it is ten housing units seems a low bar. Any apartment complex in Dublin that will have ten units will not require phasing. There is a schedule of works but there is no phase. Can there be a single phase in a development? That would be the logical thing in smaller developments.

Often there is a phase at the conclusion of work on a site. There is a snag list and after that is completed, the council has to take in charge any public spaces. Is that a separate phase? There are developments in this city that were completed 15 years ago but they still have not been taken in charge in terms of their public areas and public utilities because the snag list was never done or the building company failed. If one were to go by the phases as per the legislation, such a development would never be completed because the last phase is in abeyance, either because the company folded or the council refused to take it in charge until works were completed and yet, people might be living in it.