Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 9 May 2017

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Capital Investment Plan 2016-2021: Dublin Chamber of Commerce

4:00 pm

Ms Mary Rose Burke:

We would like to see high rise, high density, high quality housing in designated areas in the city centre and not sprawled around the city. That would provide for short commute times between work and play. That will not suffice as housing for everybody but there is a large transient population in Dublin driven by the success of our business model and their needs have to be met. Equally, other cities successfully provide high rise living for families. In Dublin, we are lucky that we have a parks and green space structure that would support a high quality of living if we could overcome our ideological objections to high rise, well designed properties.