Michael Moynihan (Cork North West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

That is true, yes. The reality is that if we set down a set of guidelines in this document, we would expect that there would be uniformity right across the country. That might be an aspiration too far but I do not think it is unreasonable to ask that we would have a solid and absolute interpretation of the regulations in it.

Over the years, and in many discussions we have had about one-off houses, we have heard about the urbanisation of Ireland, that it all had to be in the cities and had to be all critical mass. I remember in 2001, An Taisce launched a broadsheet that it was going to object to all one-off houses because it would be unviable for An Post to deliver the post to one-off houses around the country. This was the line it was bringing out at that-----

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