Conor Sheehan (Limerick City, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Given the Minister cancelled these PPPs at the eleventh hour, would he not accept that because of the uncertainty that has been injected into it for developers it is now essentially unviable as a delivery route? Who is going to take a project on if a decision could come at effectively the eleventh hour?

In the time remaining to me I want to ask about the changes to apartment guidelines and the savings the Minister laid out. Is he going to publish where exactly the savings of €50,000 to €100,000 per unit will come from? What analysis has the Department done on how this will affect existing planning permissions with respect to timelines for delivery if developers are, say, looking for more units? Have these new smaller apartment guidelines been properly assessed for compliance with wheelchair accessibility and universal design guidelines? When apartment guidelines were changed ten years ago Dublin City Council's architect said those Alan Kelly apartments, which were bigger than these new ones will be, would not be wheelchair-accessible.