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

That legislation is progressing. It should be, hopefully, through the House this session, but that is ambitious. I have been consistent in my view with regard to objections to good housing schemes. Eight hundred and fifty homes would have been available if that scheme had got the green light. I do not understand why people are objecting to schemes that have been worked out for a considerable length of time. This has been going on for a long time in respect of the development at Oscar Traynor Road. The scheme has had a number of iterations and it has gone through the council a couple of times. All of that is delaying families from getting homes. That is something that people should reflect on. I cannot comprehend why, in a crisis, people are objecting to schemes that have been given due consideration. Yet, people still object to them.

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