David Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael)
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Under the Dormant Accounts Fund, we can take dormant accounts and funding that nobody is using. Perhaps we should do something similar with properties, whereby if there is a problem with the title, the State goes in and takes the property. I want to be clear that business, as such, would not have an issue with raising taxation, perhaps some kind of vacant property tax, on these derelict and vacant properties sitting idle across towns and cities. One of my colleagues told me that in one town in his constituency, there are 100 properties from one end of the street to the other that are just boarded up and lying idle. If we brought a fraction of those back into use, it would help hugely.

Ms Dunne mentioned childcare and the impact it is having on business. It is mentioned in her submission but just in respect of taxation. Will Ms Dunne send the committee a more comprehensive note on that?