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The council has outlined its strategy for housing people with a disability in the county.
The council s Strategic Plan for housing people with a Disability 2016-2021 has been prepared by the Fingal Housing and Disability Steering Group.
The preparation of this Plan takes cognisance of the National Housing Strategy for People with a Disability 2011-2016; the associated National Implementation Framework; the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; the Disability Act 2005; a review on those living in Congregated Settings; and the Social Housing Strategy 2020, among other reports.
The primary objective of this Strategic Plan is to facilitate easier access for people with a disability to a wide range of housing, appropriate to their needs.
An important change to how Development Levies are charged in Fingal will help address and unintended penalty on families building larger homes to accommodate children with disabilities.
Fingal County Council as a Planning authority, apply a Development Levy charge to every Planning permission it grants. That is with a few exceptions. The adopted scheme runs for a period of five years.
The Scheme was before the council last Monday and it was expected that the Management s recommendation would be adopted.
Veteran Local Councillor Cathal Boland had other ideas, however.
He proposed amendments, motivated to make changes having spoken to Rush man, Damien Doyle whose daughter Grace is severely disabled.