Pauline O'Reilly (Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I agree with Senator Warfield in principle on the problematic nature of some of the language here. In removing it, however, and putting in "promote sustainable mixed income communities", it would then lack what we might not refer to as social background, but other types of diversity. It is not just income we are talking about. We are talking about creating communities. In my housing estate, we have a community garden and it is the older people in the community who are teaching the younger people, including my own children, to grow their own. We must have a greater understanding of what a mixed community means. Income is not the only thing it means. Certainly, there is a hollowing out of Galway's inner city. Much of it is because of Airbnb. If we are building new estates, we must be really clear that we are building communities. While I agree with some of what the Senator is saying, what he proposes instead possibly lacks a little bit of the diversity that was there from the Government, even if I do not fully agree with the language.