Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Guím gach rath ar an Aire agus ar an Aire Stáit. Comhghairdeas leo ar a bpostanna nua. I hope the solutions the Minister talks about are not horizon solutions and that we will see them in the future. The housing crisis is one of the biggest crises in the State. The solutions need to be timescaled to the crisis. The crisis is now and the solutions have to be implemented now.

Many people believe they are living on Shutter Island. So many main streets up and down the country have their shops closed down. People believe they are back in the 1980s and young people have been depleted. This is as a result of the economic crash, bad planning and management by local authorities, and the migration of retail to the Internet. What can the local authorities do, and what can the Minister direct them to do, to ensure this stops?

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