Anthony Lawlor (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I hope the Leader will facilitate a debate on housing before we break up for the summer recess or as soon as possible after we come back in the autumn. I have an issue concerning the Urban Regeneration and Housing Act 2015, which changed the rules in Part V of the Planning and Development Act 2000 on social and affordable housing. There is now what I call social dumping across many counties. Developers, in a variety of areas, have decided that the 10% of social housing they are required to provide in one area will be moved to another. Suddenly, there are five or six sets of 10% social housing being put into the same estate. The idea was to see a mix across various estates but developers are looking at this as a way of getting around that by having small estates and not allowing social integration to take place.

I ask that we have a debate on this in the new term and review the legislation to address the phenomenon I have described as social dumping.