Theresa Fagan

I do.

I think anything that can help people build a home where they can

have grown up is a good thing and it may not even be necessarily about relaxing planning laws but more so about having fair planning laws like as someone who has I live in Mayo I live in Lackin and I fought for over four years to try and build a house

on my own family land.

And it wasn't even a case of that the laws were the problem.

It was a case of it simply wasn't fair.

Somebody else can come in and in my own situation, they can propose a development of wind turbines right in my area.

And I'm not allowed to build a house because

it would have too much of a negative visual impact on the amenity of the area.

That's what I was told.

You know, that's what Mayo County Council told me.

It's what I'm boarded Cianola told me.

No, we didn't feel it was going to be straightforward.

We felt that the planner wasn't inclined to allow us to build in the area.

And for that reason, we were very open as to house design, you know, we were very open to dealing with them and getting what it is they wanted, but they were very much

No.

Building here and building in rural Ireland, as on board Planola told me, is not part of the national policy.

And that's what I mean about fairness.

It's not a case of somebody... Big developers can come in and do as they please, but people from the area that keep the area going.

Like, rural Ireland, it can die off very easy.