Danny Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent)

To me, a vacant property tax is not the way to go. That is a stick rather than a carrot approach. I would not support that any day of the week and I will not be. If the house is not fit to live in, then it is not worth going after. It would be very easy to show whoever is after the owner that the house is not fit to live in on a certain day, and no vacant property tax would be applied to it.