Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)

——which drive urban renewal and the investor-led property side of the market. Is he aware that, although we have made many changes over the years, he has never looked at the regulations which are now more than 15 years old in terms of specifying the standards, space, design and so on of many of these apartments? In ten years' time, many of them will be very shabby. We are refusing to change the specifications to require certain standards to be adhered to by investors who are benefiting from the tax breaks available.

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