Cian O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I agree absolutely with Deputy Boyd Barrett that "undue segregation" implies that there is a due level of segregation. I do not believe any of us agrees with that. That wording should go and the amendment should be accepted.

There is an issue, which I have brought to the Minister's attention before, of on-site segregation where Part V units are designed in a different way. I gave an example in the Minister's constituency where the Part V units face out onto the main road and all the other homes in the development face into the courtyard and the communal area. That is segregation. It is a poorer outcome for the residents of the Part V units and it completely segregates and cuts them off from the rest of the development. The State funds those Part V units by buying them. That kind of on-site segregation that is going on has to stop.