An Independent TD is asking why modular homes used to house Ukrainian refugees can't also be given to Irish people.
24 families have been housed at Doorly Park in Sligo after the units were delivered under emergency planning laws.
The development was started in February and the new residents moved in last week.
Here in Cork over 60 families who have fled the Ukrainian war moved into similar new rapid build housing units in Mahon.
The 64 units on the new Ballinure Way estate were completed at the start of June.
Independent TD for Sligo Leitrim Marc McSharry is questioning why similar developments aren't used to house those on the waiting lists:
"When this plan was muted at the end of October last, I raised the issue in the Dáil with then Taoiseach Micheál Martin. And I put the question to him that the 1,500 people and families on the Sligo housing list, the 2,400 in Donegal, and the 700 in Leitrim - just to mention those in my constituency - and asked me to ask him when would emergency planning law be invoked to provide them with modular housing?"
