Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

To return to the issue I was discussing before the Members opposite decided to laugh at it, the local authorities in the Dublin and Leinster region have refused perfectly good offers. I ask the Minister to invite the chief executive officers of the Dublin and Leinster local authorities to the Department to get an explanation as to why, when thousands of people are lingering on the housing waiting lists in their areas, they saw fit to refuse these.

I will conclude with the subject on which I started. If we are to have a mix of social housing across the country, it is important that the people in rural areas, in my constituency and the Minister's, who are often forgotten and live outside the 50 km/h speed limit are not omitted in the round of social housing on which the Government is about to embark.

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