Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 8 November 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed)

Ms Caroline Curley:

In regard to Limerick we still do elderly accommodation and the scheme that popped into my head straight away was Mungret, the one that is held up in the judicial review, where there are 50 social houses that we are looking at for the elderly. Overall we have a pledge in for Housing for All and it is in our development plan that 15% of our design will be universal design which will cover both disability and the elderly. What we are trying to do is keep everybody in place for as long as they can live there and make the house a lifelong place for them.