I too welcome many aspects of this legislation. It is very important that the Minister is making efforts in many areas, but we have a lot of strange things happening as well. Like Deputy Healy-Rae, I want to ask about the granny flats and modular units in the back garden. I will again mention Seán Meehan who is being prosecuted. He is being dragged through the courts for having his own little mobile home, which is encased in a lovely timber structure and doing no harm to anybody. There are no complaints from his neighbours along the whole road on which he lives. I also want to ask the Minister about Ballypadeen in County Tipperary. I handed him a file on it some weeks ago. They are 52 of the finest houses ever constructed in this country and they had full planning permission. For some reason, the county council took issue with them in 2005 and 2006 and the case has been in the courts ever since. Some kind of clandestine deal has now been done behind closed doors. Obviously the council did not win, and it is going to demolish these houses. They are 52 of the finest houses, constructed with mass concrete, insulation, perfect roofs, perfect walls, perfect timber ceilings and timber ceilings upstairs. Now the council is going to knock them at a cost of between €7 million and €8.5 million. It will render the site back to a brownfield site and hand it back to the owner. What is going on? Will the Minister please contact Tipperary County Council and intervene? These 52 houses should be allocated to families on the housing list.

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