Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 16 December 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht

General Scheme of the Planning and Development (No. 1) Bill 2014

3:40 pm

Photo of James BannonJames Bannon (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)
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On a point of information, have studies been carried out? A town centre was developed by a major contractor in the centre of Longford town. That building is lying idle and while we have tried our damnedest to get a tenant, that has proved impossible. The company is already broke. Where there is no market for the building, what does one do?