Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Minister with responsibility for housing is committed to the provision of affordable homes over the lifetime of this Government, to extending the serviced sites fund and to providing seed capital to local authorities to provide serviced sites at cost in towns and villages to allow individual families to build homes. In that context, I will ask the Minister to engage with the Deputy on the Claregalway situation.

The Government cannot necessarily instruct councils but it can engage with them to progress situations. That is what we want to do. I will ask the Minister to engage with Deputy Grealish in regard to the site he mentioned.

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