Danny Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The Minister referred to planning guidelines. The Minister of State, Deputy Michael Ring, said at another committee recently that the planning guidelines will have to be reviewed. The Minister should be aware that in urban areas there has been a prohibition in the county development plan which disallows people from urban areas to go just outside to the suburbs or to what is called areas under urban generated pressure. Nobody from the urban area can get permission in such places. Perhaps that is fine to an extent but, because of the classification of the area as being under urban generated pressure, a local person, the local son or daughter, who wishes to buy a site 200 yards or 300 yd. away and who has always lived in the area is being refused permission. The local fellow who is living next door to the site he wishes to buy will not get permission. The council tells us it is national policy and that it cannot do anything for such people. These people wish to build a house for themselves. They are not seeking money from anybody-----