Written answers
Tuesday, 7 November 2023
Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
Building Regulations
Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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657. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which he anticipates an improvement in terms of accessibility to all new build dwellings in order to facilitate in the widest way possible the needs of people with disabilities in preference to retrospective provision of such facilities with obvious value for money benefits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48131/23]
Kieran O'Donnell (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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My Department jointly published the National Housing Strategy for Disabled People (NHSDP) 2022-2027 with the Department of Health (DoH) and the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (DCEDIY) in January 2022 and the Implementation Plan for the Strategy on 22 June 2023. The Strategy and Implementation Plan may be accessed on my Department’s website at the following link:
The Implementation Plan sets out 107 Actions to achieve the vision of the joint Strategy for delivering housing and related supports for disabled people to 2027. It supports the primary objective of the Strategy which is ‘to facilitate disabled people to live independently with the appropriate choices and control over where, how and with whom they live, promoting their inclusion in the community’. Accessibility is a key feature running through all of the Actions in the Plan each of which is assigned to one or more stakeholders.
Housing for All is committed to ensuring that affordable, quality housing with an appropriate mix of housing design types provided within social housing, including universally designed units, is available to everyone in Irish society, including disabled people.
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