Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions
Dail Éireann — 2025-12-11
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Danny Healy-Rae (IND), Kerry

Kenmare has been starved of private housing schemes for almost 20 years, first because we did not have an adequate treatment plant - some €40 million has been spent on that and it is fully operational - and now because we are told that the water supply is not adequate. I have raised this here before, including in recent weeks, and I want to know what the answer is. I ask again that the Government liaise with Uisce Éireann and ensure that the two current planning applications for up to 170 houses that are now in limbo are not refused because of the shortage of water.
I would like to ask another thing. Back in the late seventies and eighties, people got £3,500 to build houses of less than 1,350 sq. ft. Could we bring forward a similar type of scheme to decrease the house sizes to maybe 1,750 sq. ft? Many people are building houses much bigger than they can afford, and the cost is so-----

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Sitting date: 2025-12-11