Rebecca Moynihan (Labour) | Oireachtas source

I want to know what support the Department is giving the council to be able to bring sites back from dereliction and vacancy into use. That is the main issue. I understand the constraints on the council. Even if the sites are not the subject of a CPO and belong to the city council, I want to know what supports the Department is putting in place in terms of those large-scale sites. From my experience on the city council, I recall that the default position is to sell sites on to the developer to be developed. We were told that we could not develop sites ourselves because we did not have the resources to do so.