Shane Cassells (Meath West, Fianna Fail)
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I do not want to be rude at all. I mean county council estates, the county council estates that I knew. I grew up in the middle of the town of Navan. All the estates around me in the middle of the town were county council estates. They were finely built estates from the 1950s and 1960s where people reared their families. The issues pertaining today that people see, such as social problems, were not the issues then. We had plenty of problems in 1980s Ireland, but for whatever little money we had, we did not have the problems we see now. We were able to house our people. Is there an aversion to the creation of the council estates that I knew in my youth in my town and every other town across Ireland?

It is not that they do not seem to be getting built - they are not being built. Is the aversion from the Department; is it policy from the Housing Agency or from the chief executives of the councils?