Ciarán

you know, Ennistig or Listerlyn or Greignamanna or wherever it happens to be as opposed to kind of scattering the countryside around it with houses.

Is there anything for that compromise?

Listen, there's so many other people as well getting in touch and not all from Albany and New York.

Ruth Walsh is on the line.

Ruth, I know you've been listening to the conversation from Theresa and Sean right through to Christine.

Do you think we should relax planning rules as the government are proposing to make it easier to build one-off housing?

Yeah, go for it, David.

Well, you would still have to get planning, David.

It's not a free-for-all in the sense you can build whatever you want, where you want.

Do you really think so?

but also allowing farmers... David, I'm conscious, I do have to take a break in a moment, but David, just on the apartment point, I mean, what's proposed is that people who are from a rural area and have a connection to it and own family land, that it would be relaxed to allow them to build on it.

I mean, to allow an apartment to go into a field, I guess all 30 families living in the apartment would have to show that they're from that field and they own that field and they all have a connection to that field.

Yeah, well, I think, I don't know if you're listening to it.

I mean, I've heard a number of government spokespeople this morning on this station and others, and they were fairly clear that they were talking about family homes for families with a connection to an area, who grew up in the area and who already own family land in the area.

Yeah.

Yeah.

The person who might build beside you would do likewise?

Yeah.

Do you ever worry that your house, in some people's minds, destroys rural Ireland?

Five bedroom standalone house?