Local authority housing delivery
Deputy Healy-Rae criticises delays in building local authority and social housing and asks why rural cottages are being curtailed. The Taoiseach says local authorities have funding, targets and planning powers and should proceed with the work.
Why is the Department holding up the building of local authority houses or social housing and curtailing the number of rural cottages that can be built? Why is this happening after all the talk we have had about housing?
Comment on this
Deputy Healy-Rae will understand that local authorities have been given money. They have been given targets for the number of houses to be built and the opportunity to do their own planning and design and to get on with the job. He should discuss that with the chief executive in County Kerry because the local authorities have the resources and the authority to get on with the job and they should be doing that.