Richard O'Donoghue (Limerick County, Independent) | Oireachtas source

On Housing for All, let us talk about Limerick. The LDA was set up in 2018. How many houses were built in Limerick since then? I cannot hear the Minister for Finance. None, is it? That is right; no houses were built in Limerick. Very good. After investing €1.2 billion in the LDA, not one house was built in Limerick, but the members of the Government, including the Minister for Finance, the Minister for Transport and Deputy McAuliffe, who have spoken are from Dublin. That is the problem, when we are talking about rural versus urban. We have been waiting for 37 years for a sewerage system in Askeaton, where the sewage is going into the River Shannon. The Minister's Government has promised to fix it but there has been no delivery. Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael made promises in respect of Glin, but there was no delivery. There was no delivery on housing or a sewerage system for Oola. I am not talking about what is happening today, or during the Minister's tenure as Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage; I am talking about the last 20 to 30 years. There has been no delivery. In Hospital, a system had to be put in place in the town until the system was upgraded, but no extra capacity was provided, which means no extra houses for the people in County Limerick. It is supposed to be Housing for All, but all I am hearing about is Dublin. What about Limerick? There are Deputies and Ministers here from Limerick, yet there is no delivery for Limerick.

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