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

This is from an 88-year-old man from Bruree, County Limerick. He told me that as his TD, he wanted me to speak up in the Dáil about using Apple's unpaid tax money for building public and affordable homes and to say that the next Government has a chance to finally tackle our biggest shame as nation, which the fact that so many people are forced into debt, despair or poverty because we do not have affordable homes. He said he looked forward to hearing me call this out in the Dáil.

We are back again to what I have been saying for almost five years, which is infrastructure. A comprehensive strategic infrastructure study for Limerick was carried by the Land Development Agency in 2020 but it has never been published. Why? The Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage has this report but it has never been published. Who is the Government protecting? Which property developers is it protecting? Why do we not have the infrastructure so we can build affordable houses in Limerick for the current and future generations? Again, it is another cover-up by Government. Taxpayers' money paid for this study but it has not yet been published so I am asking the Minister to give me the study carried out by the Land Development Agency in 2020.

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