Ruth Coppinger (Dublin West, Anti-Austerity Alliance) | Oireachtas source

Could the association supply us with an audit of all local authority-owned land in each local authority taking in the acreage, zoning and location? It is critical that we have this information because the manager says that there is enough land to build houses when there is insufficient land in some locations.

Why have local authorities not developed a scheme for buying second-hand properties where residents are in situ? This will be very important for the vulture fund and distressed property situations. An article in the Irish Independentlast week that dealt with this stated that Dublin City Council apparently could have bought a block of apartments but because there were some-----