Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein)
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As I said before, I am not making the argument for 1930s-type housing, or 1970s-type housing for that matter. The reason they were able to build them back then was that they had a number of different plans for different housing needs; for example, one-, two-, three- or four-bedroom houses; single-storey or two-storey houses; or high- or low-density developments. I know what you are going to tell me. You are going to tell me that you have a framework. I know all of that. I welcome the fact that you have a framework for internal design and for some other standards, but why can we not use the same plan in Donegal and Wexford, for example? We did so before. That is the only way we can produce houses. People who are in the business have told me this. That is the only way we can do it on scale-----