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If the ten New Residential and Serviced Sites are fully built to the minimum level and the new dwellings are occupied all year by the average 2.59 member households, the plan could exceed the projected population growth by 69%, potentially creating a much-needed boost in the Rathkeale economy. However, the LAP is not specific enough to ensure this optimistic outcome, especially when it calculates 55% vacant dwellings resulting from the annual migratory nature of a large proportion of Rathkeale’s Traveller community. As such, a different mix of dwellings and occupants could severely and permanently hurt Rathkeale’s economic vitality because the space is finite.