Bruton intent on keeping vacant housing site for farming

Family are sitting on a prime housing site in their home town of Dunboyne in Meath despite the severe shortage of homes there

An abandoned house on the Bruton lands in Dunboyne

Minister for Education Richard Bruton has signalled that he wants to hold ontohis family’s vacant housing site for farming despite the doubling of the vacant site levy.

He and his brother, former Taoiseach John Bruton, and their sister Mary are sitting ona prime housing site in their home town of Dunboyne in Meath despite the severe shortage of homes there. It is currently leased for farming but has been zoned for housing since ...