Thomas Byrne (Meath East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

My question regards the commitment in the programme for Government to deliver more housing. I read with interest an article, with accompanying photograph, in the Meath Chronicle last week regarding 40 houses that are to be built in Kells by 2021. The journalists of the Meath Chronicle are extremely independent. Its editorial stated that Meath is once again on the back foot as a result of the national development plan and that such announcements are old hat and regurgitated annually. The 40 houses in Kells were first announced by Deputy Kelly in 2015 and have been reannounced almost every year since but have not even got through the planning stage. Now that Project Ireland 2040 involves spending so much the money on advertising these houses, when will my constituents in Kells see these houses built and when will our housing list be shortened?

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