What to do with the ghost estates?

Madam, – It is beyond belief that consideration is being given to demolishing houses and ghost estates across Ireland.

Madam, – It is beyond belief that consideration is being given to demolishing houses and ghost estates across Ireland.

At no time should this take place, but particularly not in the middle of a crisis when some people are homeless and others are under threat of becoming homeless, when unemployment is high and many people are living in substandard housing which does not meet their specific needs.

There is a challenge here and an opportunity for those in power in Ireland to pay back socially to the people what has been taken from them through the undemocratic process of Nama.

Let’s have people housed, rehoused, and have the remainder of empty houses turned into long-awaited community facilities and small businesses for entrepreneurs in communities. All those who use Facebook, please join the group Cube – Campaign to Use Buildings that are Empty. – Yours, etc,

ELAINE D’ALTON,

Cluain Na Laoi,

Co Clare.