John Cummins (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Again, similar to the vacancy and dereliction on the private side of things, we must give a good example from the local authority side. These are the calls we always get as public representatives, concerning, for example, a council property that has been vacant for six months or a year. We must be acutely conscious of this type of situation in respect of leadership. If we are preaching one thing to the private sector and holding the stick of the CPO over its head and then somebody points out that the local authority has a unit vacant for 12 months, that is hard to explain.