Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 26 November 2020

Public Accounts Committee

2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (Resumed)
Chapter 11 - Social Housing
Chapter 12 - Land Aggregation Scheme.
Chapter 13 - Pyrite Remediation Scheme.

11:30 am

Ms Sarah Neary:

The second initiative is the standard internal layouts. We discuss this a lot. The actual look and feel of an estate does need to fit within the context of the environment and community that it sits in. That is where the architects are very important in terms of appropriate designs. We have done a lot of work on the internal layouts. We are just about to share that with local authorities, in terms of a consultation period at the end of this year, so that there would be standard, economical layouts for one, two, three and four-bedroom houses and apartments. That is in motion.