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Meantime, Dave Wetzel, vice-chairman of Transport for London, may prove slightly more popular with his proposal that big landowners be forced to pay over part of the increased value that public transport, such as the Luas, brings to their property.
While there are regulations in Ireland governing the standards by which adjoining homes should be sound-insulated, anecdotal evidence suggests they fall short.
The GPDA says one in five homeowners had complaints about sound travelling