File 7 - Labour Party Environment Committee

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Large envelope labelled: "264 Labour Party Environment Committee" with material relating to the Kenny Majority Report consisting of a summary of Kenny report produced by Dermot O'Rourke, with cover letter to Mary Robinson (MR) from Val Kelly, Labour Party, 17/01/1984; photocopy of report "Some Administrative, Financial and Other Issues Arising from the Kenny Majority Report", produced by Department of the Environment originally in October 1983 and agenda for meeting of the Environment committee to discuss the report with note from Valerie [Kelly] requesting copy of paper MR was producing by 23th February, 14/02/1984.

[Archivist's note: In 1971, the Minister for Local Government, Bobby Molloy, set up a Committee under the Chairmanship of Judge John Kenny, to consider possible measures for controlling the price of building land in the interests of the common good. Published in 1973, the Kenny Report included a Majority Report, suggesting the creation of Designated Areas (by the High Court), on the edge of urban areas. Here, local authorities would compulsorily purchase land at agricultural values, plus 25%. These lands could be managed directly, or sold on to developers, thus reducing land costs for housing. By the time the report was published, the government had changed, and the economic recession of the 1970s had taken hold.]

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