BREAKING: 'One poor man is in a situation of separation as the result of a marriage break-up'

Tipperary TD Mattie McGrath has hit out in the Dáil over attitudes to log cabins.

He said: "I know at least ten people in south Tipperary who have built log cabins, in one shape or another.

"One poor man is in a situation of separation as the result of a marriage break-up. The house had to be sold. He bought a site and put a mobile home onto it.

"He built the most spectacular log finish all around it. He has now received an enforcement notice and will be dragged through the courts.

"He asked me where he will go. Will he live under the Main Guard in Clonmel with the other homeless people? I know of several other cases.

I know of a young barber who bought a log cabin in County Wicklow and put it behind his father and mother's house. It was delicately and sensitively placed.

"It fit the landscape. He has been leaving through the same entrance all his life but now the TII has a problem with the entrance. He is nevertheless leaving through that entrance every day. He has his own sewerage system. We are looking for problems."