James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It is now mandatory for local authorities to use the plans we have designed in the Department of housing. To deliver housing on the scale we did in the past, the Deputy is 100% right. We need to see the local authorities in Laois, Wexford and Donegal using similar plans for houses. That will also help modern methods of construction, MMC, because those companies will know what they are now designing for, rather than there being a vernacular for every local authority. There will be consistency. I hope private industry will copy these designs as well when going for planning permission because these are high-specification and high-standard designs.

In respect of apartments, we only have to look at the numbers. We have seen a collapse in the delivery of apartments.