THE lifting of restrictions on once-off housing in rural areas may prove to be just more of the same.

THE cost of benchmarking payments by local authorities will be immense. For Cork County Council alone it will total €12m.

DUE to the derelict and overgrown condition of many of our older cemeteries — some of them historic — the Minister for the Environment should bring in legislation akin to the Derelict Sites Act to prevent them from falling into total disrepair.