Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 26 September 2024

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community

Business of Committee

9:30 am

Photo of Catherine MurphyCatherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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The problem is that access in is important. To even get a lease it would be important to get access but that requires a willing partner and the new owner is not a willing partner. My point is that we often look at value for money as things, that is, on what we spend and what we get for it. Not spending the amount of money to buy it is almost criminal. It is outrageous, let us put it that way, because in actual fact the asset is reducing in value in terms of the use, and the potential use, by virtue of the fact that there is no access. The house is of international importance.