Tim Lombard (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

My point was that the 300,000 homes, in particular in my area, were made up of settlements and large tracts of one-off housing which, meaning no offence, came about due to bad planning in the 1970s and 1980s. If we are honest about the issue, that is mainly what was connected. For example, the constituency I would service is 130 or 140 miles long. It extends to Castletownbere and beyond it into Allihies, and I start at Kinsale. We are talking about a considerable geographical area. When it comes to houses not connected, my area is the most peripheral of them all. Looking at what is being proposed here for vast areas of country and population, and Ms Lennon spoke about 350,000 houses, the area that has been connected in my part of the world cannot be compared with the area that has not been connected.