Image: Shutterstock/Leonid Eremeychuk Image: Shutterstock/Leonid Eremeychuk HOUSING MINISTER EOGHAN Murphy has been heavily criticised for comments he made about proposals for co-living developments in Ireland.
The proposed Dublin development would be one of the first “co-living” buildings that became permissible under design standard guidelines for new apartments that were introduced in March 2018. This evening, defending the co-living model, Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy criticised a video released by Fianna Fáil on the developments, which dubbed the plans has “hair-brained”.
Labour’s Brendan Howlin dubbed the co-living proposals as “ludicrous” today in the Dáil, stating that there is an attempt to “normalise cramped living conditions and erode public housing standards that we have spent most of our lives trying to improve”.Howlin said the government “is out of touch with the reality of the lives of the vast bulk of working people”, adding:
He said that co-living has been welcomed in other cities and cautioned politicians rushing to judgment on the basis of one planning application.
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