Dessie Ellis (Dublin North West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 34:

In page 20, to delete lines 5 to 39, and in page 21, to delete lines 1 to 41 and substitute the following:"33. Section 96 (inserted by section 3 of the Planning and Development (Amendment) Act 2002) of the Act of 2000 is deleted.".

Part V was weakened by amendments lobbied for by developers in 2002. This should never have happened. The Government now wants to weaken it further by allowing leasing to become a major part of Part V. I completely oppose this. Leasing is not a means of delivering proper social housing, which is what the Government claims it wants to do. Leasing arrangements are part of the Government's social housing policy, but I do not believe they constitute the delivery of proper social housing. That is why I am opposing the Government's approach.

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