Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government came up with the exemptions. What I did in the Act – with the approval of everyone – was to exempt certain categories of house, and we exempted houses in ghost estates. It was then up to the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government, in consultation with local authorities, to nominate the estates, which is what they have done. I am not second-guessing them. I just do not have the information.

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