Brendan Griffin (Kerry, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Annagh Banks is a 14-unit development on the Inch-Dingle road out of Castlemaine. Anyone familiar with my part of the country would see it on the right-hand side as they are leaving Castlemaine. It has been unfinished for well over a decade. These houses would take very little work to get them over the line and become homes for people. Kerry County Council is preparing a turnkey application at the moment. My parliamentary assistant, Tommy Griffin, has engaged for a very long time with the owner of these properties to try to bring this project as a proposal to the Minister's Department. Will the Minister engage with the local authority? The process seems quite onerous. These houses really should be ready to go. If they are built, there is a little bit of work to be done but in the overall scheme of things, not a huge amount of work to be done. The process itself seems to be very onerous and I ask the Minister to look at this case as an example of how that process could be streamlined to make it easier to get such properties turned around and ready as homes for people.

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