Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

I strongly support this amendment for many of the reasons that have been set out. I will give a very good current example of why we should have this zoning, namely, the Jurys Hotel site. It is an outrage that this site has been lying idle in the teeth of an enormous housing crisis where hundreds of desperate asylum seekers living in tents on Mount Street are being treated despicably. Huge numbers of homeless people are often given rotten accommodation, yet there are two massive buildings on the Jurys site, where hundreds of rooms have been sitting there for 15 years.

What is that site going to be? It is going to be a new United States embassy, when that country already has a perfectly good building across the road. That is an absolute outrage. If I was not so busy running other protests, I would be having a protest about this situation. I am serious. That site should not be another US embassy, nor-----