Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Tá obair iontach déanta ag an Aire sna ceantair tuaithe. He has done a lot of things including extending the first home scheme to rural areas. He is also carrying out a review of Gaeltacht planning and so on. The measure that has had the most immediate impact in rural Ireland is probably the extension of the Croí Cónaithe scheme to single houses in rural areas. There is a substantial amount of interest in that scheme in rural Ireland. Does the Minister have any data as to the number of applications received from rural areas as opposed to urban areas since he made the groundbreaking decision to extend the scheme to rural areas? My second question relates to the first. Do we have any information on the delay with inspections in different county councils because that is the only cloud on the horizon with this scheme? When people apply, they like to get a fairly quick response.

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