Ciarán

Sorry, Saoirse.

Well, listen, on that note, Saoirse, I hope your iced tea or iced coffee is still sufficiently cool after all of that.

And Ciarán and Mary and Schieffer and everybody else, for what it's worth, I hope everybody does enjoy the good weather and enjoys it safely.

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I would particularly like...

to hear from people about housing and the government's plans to relax planning rules in rural Ireland.

It was reported in the Sunday Indo yesterday and I heard the Fianna Fáil TD, Peter Chapclear, on with David McCullough earlier and the way he put it...

many, many times in that interview, regardless of what he was asked, was, if you are from rural Ireland and if you want to live in rural Ireland and if you've got land or family land in rural Ireland and you want to raise a family in rural Ireland and send your kids to the local school in rural Ireland, you should be allowed to build in rural Ireland.

that the planning laws, as he put it, should not be a hindrance to you.

They should be helping you to build that home and realise that dream.

So that is where we kick things off because Theresa Fagan is on the line.

Theresa, do you welcome this proposed relaxation of planning laws?

So, Teresa, when you first went in, I don't know, did you go straight in for planning?