Cork housing commencements
Deputy Kenny argued that Cork, especially the county, needed stronger support for private housing commencements and smaller-scale building. The Taoiseach pointed to several major city developments, leading to an exchange over whether he was addressing private single homes specifically.
The Taoiseach raised the possibility of using bespoke legislation to ensure a major sewerage scheme for Dublin does not face further delays. He said that we cannot tolerate any more delays. What about our own county of Cork? I am sure that, similar to my office, his office is inundated with housing needs. In July, five homes commenced building in Cork city. The city's monthly commencement average is ten times lower than last year's. While I appreciate that figures for Cork city are not as bad, Cork county is still well below last year's monthly commencement average. Significant issues are arising constantly in relation to infrastructure, sewerage, access to water and planning applications. Will the Taoiseach commit to introducing bespoke legislation for Cork to ensure that major infrastructure schemes are introduced and progress to allow the building of homes to commence and not have it further delayed?
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There have been quite a number of very large commencements in Cork city. There is the Greenfield site, for example. The old Dairygold site is now commencing, and money has been released for that. There are the Railway Yard apartments and the docklands. So there has been some very significant-----
