Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

We 100% stand up for the aspiration of purchasing apartments in our cities and right across the country. Apartments are part of city living and urban compact living. We 100% stand up for and support that and we did so in government this week. We got agreement with our colleagues that we will come back to this issue in the affordable housing Bill and look at further measures, as the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, has said, to deliver on that. It will be part of a mix because this needs a multifaceted response.

Absolutely central to that must be us having apartments as homes. We cannot have a system whereby a person rents and then when he or she grows up, as it were, he or she goes out and buys a house. We must create high-quality urban environments. That requires good planning and local council involvement. It is at local council level across the country that Green Party members are working with colleagues to deliver the planning we need to provide that high-quality local environment.

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