Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I do not have any indication from the Minister when there will be a vacant property tax. There is data collection ongoing. Revenue could have been asked at any point in time to collect that data and a revaluation of the local property tax was not needed to do that. The Minister has not provided a commitment of when he will introduce this. The housing crisis has gotten out of control and the Minister has been forced to do a U-turn on a position which he defended against, despite Sinn Féin calling for it for since 2016. On that basis I will push this amendment to a vote.