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

I am asking the Minister to fund the local authorities so they can purchase sites around local villages and towns. Our land is exhausted at the moment. We have very little land left in most of the rural towns and villages, including Currow, Scartaglen, Rathmore, Gneeveguilla and all of those places. There is no land. I am asking the Minister to fund the local authorities so they can purchase lands on which they can build houses themselves. We must sort out the sewerage problems that are stopping progress and development in those areas. We have different problems in Kerry. The tenant purchase scheme is denying 80% of applicants the right to purchase their houses.

That money is going towards dealing with voids and bringing them back up to standard. At present, we have 162 voids in the county of Kerry. It is absolutely crazy.

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