Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It puts people in segregated areas when we want people to live happily together in communities and that is why mixed developments are the foundation of Government's policy. When we look at the indicators, the figures are trending positively. The number of new homes that have become available for use in the past 12 months to the end of June was 19,650 individual homes. That is a 24% increase on the year from the end of June 2017. Planning permissions were up to 26,752 units to the end of the second quarter of 2018.

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