Dessie Ellis (Dublin North West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 17:

In page 11, lines 34 to 38, to delete all words from and including “where—” in line 34 down to and including line 38 and substitute the following: “no market exists for the site.”.

Contaminated sites should be levied. If a site is not usable, then a developer should not just be sitting on it, hoping that someone will take it off their hands. This levy will encourage developers to sell to someone who may work to resolve the site's issues, or at least raise revenue to offset the damage caused by this loss of land in the area.

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