Danny Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent) | Oireachtas source

A Programme for a Partnership Government contains a reference to the housing shortage on page 19. We all know what is happening in respect of housing. There are people in Kerry who are being deprived of the right to build their own houses on their own land by one serial objector. In all of these cases, Kerry County Council had granted planning permission. However, the objector in question has appealed all of the council's decisions to An Bord Pleanála. Even though inspectors have visited sites and decided that planning permission be granted in line with what Kerry County Council has ordained, An Bord Pleanála then refuses said permission. The people who made the applications are left without houses or without the opportunity to build houses for themselves. They cannot afford to buy houses in towns such as Killarney, Kenmare or Dingle, nor can they afford to seek judicial reviews. What is the Taoiseach going to do about these serial objectors?

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