Tommy Broughan (Dublin North East, Labour)

As a brief follow-on to the point raised by my colleague, Deputy Tuffy, it is deliberate that the large north fringe, north of the Taoiseach's constituency, is not a strategic development zone because certain large developers were taken care of. Householders owe mortgages of more than €400,000 and are left in houses that are not repaired. One company, Killoe Developments, refuses to talk to them, although they have only been in the houses for a couple of years.

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