Ms M?ire N? Mhurch?:

No, not when they spoke about doing figures on the back of an envelope. I was really upset, especially as I had spent a year going in with facts, figures and details of owners who have been turned down for planning permission and who have been told that if they want to get planning permission in the midlands, for example, where the just transition fund operates, they will get money to set up a business but they will have to pay €60,000 to €80,000 for planning before they will get near that money. All of the stuff is being tied up and nothing seems to be getting through where planning is concerned. When I heard the other night that the planners in Killarney are working off 2016 legislation, I thought, "Ah lads, where are we going?". It needs to be sorted before we can go any further with the register because there are family livelihoods depending on this.

My husband comes from Meath and I am well used to walking around the place but it is in a rent pressure zone so if somebody wants to stay there or if somebody wants to do up an old building, there is no hope of being allowed to do so at this stage.