Kieran O'Donnell (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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Thank you, Chairman. I welcome Mr. Parlon and Mr. Kelleher. Do you have any comment to make on the fact that the ghost estates appear to be concentrated very much with low areas ... areas with low population densities in, we'll say, Longford, Leitrim and Roscommon ... and a survey done by ... a report done by the National Institute for Regional and Social Analysis and NUI Maynooth in 2010 stated that for both Leitrim and Longford that if .... based on, we'll say, the rate of growth normally ... the normal rate of growth in ... in households between ... in the ten years leading up to 2006 ... based on the number of houses that were built by ... over the three period from '06 to '09 ... 6,500 houses were built in Leitrim and Longford alone that would take ten years to fill the ... fill the ... to fill those houses based on housing stock they had? And if you could just indicate ... it was during your time, Mr. Kelleher ... did you lobby for the tax incentive schemes, particularly the rural incentive scheme along the Shannon?