Maura Fay

He's just over seven weeks old and Laura and her husband Matthew are delighted with the progress he's made.

Ireland is in the middle of a significant rethink of one-off rural housing policies.

How do people who've already gone through the planning permission system feel that it should be changed?

Our reporter Maura Fay has been speaking to some of them and she joins me now.

Right.

So I presume Rebecca would like to see the rules around housing density changed.

Rebecca Murphy from Kildare there.

Who else did you speak to, Máire?

So what changes would John and Nicole like to see to the existing rails?

Now, of course, Maura, not everyone who applies for planning permission gets turned down.

Okay, so new rules are on the way, but when can we expect them?

OK, Moira Faye, thank you so much for that.