Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party)

Unelected managers of local authorities impose this as a condition and the fundamental inequity is that young people now purchasing a home under great duress and at high cost are saddled with a local tax of between €500 and €1,000 per year. In the first five years it is payable to the developer to clean up his or her act and finish the estate so they can move on. Kilnamanagh was an unfortunate example for the Taoiseach to use. It was built but not handed over by Brennan and McGowan and others who are well-known to his party.

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