Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 17 May 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Revitalising Derelict and Vacant Homes on Farmland: Discussion

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

I am nearly finished. Those people were not going to benefit at all from those playgrounds at all. On top of that, if there was a local road - and people had to be on a local road, nearly, to get permission - that road will not be done up, regardless. People will have to pay the €2,500 or €3,000 levy for the roads. It may not be going to their house at all, because more than likely, if their road needs to be done up and it is a class 3 road they will have to pay into a community involvement scheme in order to get the road tarred. It might not have been done in 40 years. People are getting nothing and are still being charged levies. I think I have nearly everything covered.

There is a lady there who mentioned nodes. We had a man in Faha in the last month. He put in a planning application for 12 houses. Faha is supposed to be in a node, but he was turned down. They were going to be-----

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