Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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360. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the review on co-living; and when he plans to publish the review. [36245/20]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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Section 5.0 of Sustainable Urban Housing: Design Standards for New Apartments Guidelines for Planning Authorities, published by my Department in 2018, provides guidance and policy in respect of ‘Shared Accommodation Developments’, also known as ‘Co-living’. 

I have been clear in my intention to review the provisions on Co-living set out in the Sustainable Urban Housing guidelines.  It is also the case that the final paragraph (5.24) of the relevant section of the guidance commits my Department to monitor the emerging shared accommodation sector, with a view to issuing further technical updates of the Sustainable Urban Housing guidelines document, given the relatively new nature of this form of accommodation.

Accordingly, I have instructed officials in my Department to review Paragraphs 5.13 to 5.24 of the Sustainable Urban Housing document.  This includes analysis of development proposals for co-living that have come forward since publication of the guidelines and in particular, how such proposals compare to apartment development standards generally.  My officials have now prepared a report which I am currently considering and I expect to issue a decision on the matter in the coming weeks.