{"id":1671,"date":"2021-09-08T10:35:44","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T09:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/legal-basis-for-developers-affordable-home-exemption-must-be-explained\/"},"modified":"2021-09-08T10:35:44","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T09:35:44","slug":"legal-basis-for-developers-affordable-home-exemption-must-be-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socialdemocrats.ie\/ga\/legal-basis-for-developers-affordable-home-exemption-must-be-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal Basis For Developers&#8217; Affordable Home Exemption Must Be Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>At every turn, the Minister for Housing has put the interests of big developers ahead of those struggling to buy an affordable homes<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>It is utterly unacceptable that thousands of affordable homes will be lost because of an exemption for developers contained in the Minister\u2019s new housing plan, according to Social Democrats Housing Spokesperson Cian O\u2019Callaghan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Housing For All plan includes measures to increase social and affordable homes in new developments from 10pc to 20pc \u2013 except, if a developer bought land between 2015 and 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Department of Housing has refused to say whether or not it sought any legal advice to justify this exemption, which will lead to the loss of 10,000 affordable homes. This is not good enough.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Supreme Court has previously found in favour of Part V and found that the legislature acted constitutionally when setting planning rules of this nature in the public interest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am calling on the Minister for Housing to clarify if legal advice was sought by his Department regarding this exemption and I am calling on Minister O\u2019Brien to publish any such advice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now, we need to build as many affordable and social homes as we can. The requirement for 20pc of new developments to be social and affordable homes should never have been reduced to 10pc in 2015. Now that it has been restored, it must be implemented in full without exemptions. There cannot be an opt-out for large tranches of land simply because they were bought since 2015.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt every turn, the Minister for Housing, Darragh O\u2019Brien, has put the interests of big developers ahead of those struggling to buy an affordable home.\u00a0 This decision is just the latest in a long line of pro-developer policymaking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>8 September, 2021<\/p>\n<p>Ends<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At every turn, the Minister for Housing has put the interests of big developers ahead of those struggling to buy an affordable homes It is utterly unacceptable that thousands of affordable homes will be lost because of an exemption for developers contained in the Minister\u2019s new housing plan, according to Social Democrats Housing Spokesperson Cian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[278,10,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cian-ocallaghan","category-housing-crisis","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Legal Basis For Developers&#039; 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