Housing Plan: Statements
Dail Éireann — 2025-12-03
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Ryan O'Meara (FF), Tipperary North

We can build houses there if Uisce Éireann will provide the infrastructure. Time and again, every chance I have had to raise housing in this Chamber, I have done so and at every opportunity, I will again. We want houses in Cloghjordan and Ballycommon and they can be built if we provide the infrastructure, but it is urgent. It is needed now, not in five or ten years. My generation needs it now.
We need affordable housing schemes in Nenagh, Roscrea, Thurles and Urlingford and I am proud to represent all those towns. We need affordable housing for my generation, for those young people who have gone abroad who want to come home and build a life, and for the people I went to school with who want to raise a family. Rural planning needs to be loosened. We need to give GAA clubs and rural schools a chance. We need to repopulate rural Ireland and allow those of us who can get a site in rural Ireland to not have to jump through ridiculous hoops to be able to build in our own parish and our own home.
Now is the time for urgency, now is the time for action.

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Sitting date: 2025-12-03