Sean O’Rourke had Karl Deeter on his ‘Today’ show to discuss planning laws and how a change in them could result in up to 4,000 additional Dublin City homes at a very low financial cost.

The idea was to reduce the regulatory burden and inefficiency of planning, and (in Karl’s opinion) to also consider some reductions in the standards because applying modern standards to old buildings is like applying modern car safety rules to old cars.

The clip is a good debate showing the good and bad facets of this argument.