Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Not all of the 1,100 estates will be exempt. The Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government has decided that exemptions will only apply to certain homes in a little over 400 of the estates in question. That is blatantly unfair. Can the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy Rabbitte, justify the significant discrepancy between the number of estates that have been cited as being in a "seriously problematic condition" and the number of exemptions granted?

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