Mrs. Alice Doyle:

Yes and just to finish on that point, the Deputy is absolutely right. There are inconsistencies everywhere. There are inconsistencies in planning. In some counties, it takes forever to get planning permission to do even the simplest thing like build an extension. People can apply and reapply and it costs every time they go back to do that because they are changing the plans, for example. They have to go back to their architect and pay to have changes made. It becomes very costly. There is inconsistency in how different councils approach what one is doing. It depends on the planner. In our county, it depends which planner they go for. They try to find out which one of the planners is going to be taking their case when they apply for planning permission because they know some of them will be a little bit more lenient than others, particularly if they are in a rural area. Some are a little more lenient in rural areas while others just have notions and do not make one ounce of sense.

The other point I absolutely agree on is that there are a number of one-off houses, as the Chairman said earlier, that do not belong to farms. Many of those are in parts of Ireland where the bloodline has died out. There may be a fair bit of bureaucracy involved in trying to find out the folio for those, who owns them and going back far enough to get them registered into somebody's name. In many cases, those houses have gone through a couple of generations now and to get them registered on a folio can be quite difficult.