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Minister Mary Hanafin is wasting millions of euro every year by leaving people for long periods on a short-term rent supplement scheme, Fine Gael spokesperson Michael Ring TD has revealed.

At a recent meeting of the Galway City Council, City Hall officials proposed to lease 57 empty houses to the Cluid Housing Association for a period of five years.

Critical infrastructure and the allocation of social housing needs to be seriously addressed by government legislation. The putting in place of critical infrastructure for badly needed projects in Ireland and the processes involved in ensuring such projects become a reality needs to be radically overhauled and the whole timeframe needs to be dramatically speeded up and transformed.

Fine Gael county councillor Michelle Mulherin questioned the use of the new long term lease plan announced by the Minister for Housing and Urban Renewal, Michael Finneran TD recently. Minister Finneran announced the €20 million project when he was in Ballina recently to announce the multi million euro funding for the rejuvenation of St Patrick’s Estate in the town.

Bennettsbridge Fine Gael Councillor Pat O’Neill has revealed that Kilkenny County Council has 40 vacant affordable houses while there are 1,300 people on the local authority housing scheme waiting list.

There are at least 200 vacant local authority and affordable houses in Galway city, something that is “absolutely scandalous”, given that there are more than 3,000 households on the housing waiting list.

Longford/Westmeath Deputy James Bannon has welcomed the announcement by Minister for the Environment, Heritage & Local Government, John Gormley, that local authority housing tenants are to be offered the chance to buy their rented apartments.

Members of Kilkenny Borough Council have expressed concern about the new approach to the provision of social housing that has been proposed by the Government and taken on by local authorities in Kilkenny and across the country.

Minister for Community, Rural, and Gaeltacht Affairs Éamon Ó Cuív TD held a public meeting in Ballina on Monday evening.