Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members]
Dail Éireann — 2024-10-22
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Michael Healy-Rae (IND), Kerry

While I always welcome a debate here on housing, this motion is being brought forward by Sinn Féin, which has more serial objectors than people would have cornflakes in the morning. It is ridiculous that people are using their positions as parliamentarians to object not to one or two houses but, in many cases, to thousands of planning permissions. This has been done by those elected to represent people and then they come in here at the same time talking about housing. At the same time, in their constituencies, one individual has made 2,840 objections.
Deputy Mattie McGrath: One TD.

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Sitting date: 2024-10-22