Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

RE: In a recent press release new planning guidelines for apartments, the minister is quoted as saying that 'the changes being made, when compared to the previous guidelines, will likely result in some cases in an average of €50k and up to €100k cost reduction per unit." Request for any documents held by the department, including but not limited to correspondence with lobby organisations, the Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, the Department of Finance, the Housing Agency, the Land Development Agency, and internal departmental memo, on which these estimates of €50k and €100k are based.