Pádraic McCormack (Galway West, Fine Gael)

I dealt with a simple case last week in an isolated area of Connemara involving an old lady living in a dilapidated house attached to a business. The business and the house were left to her son. The family were trying to provide a two-bedroomed house for the mother in an area slightly away from the business, which is a public house, because of the noise, yet the planning officer could give me no hope that permission would be granted. All that family wanted to do was——

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