Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I do not accept that. I am very familiar with planning guidelines and there are some areas in which people cannot build one-off houses in rural Ireland, under planning legislation brought introduced in 2008 or 2009. People are sometimes not allowed to build in areas under strong urban pressure but there is an alternative, which is to live in the centre of towns. If you have vibrant towns you will have vibrant rural areas to feed into the towns.

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