Martin Browne (Tipperary, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I agree with the Deputy. It needs to be looked at fairly quickly because we are all about heritage and everyone wants to see it. We all love to see thatched cottages throughout the country. We have ten in a small village setting in Holycross near my home in County Tipperary. It would be an awful pity to lose them. We run a massive risk of people taking the thatch off and losing that if something is not done on the insurance end of it. For this reason people cannot sell on a house, as the Deputy said. People will not buy a house if they cannot get insurance for it.