Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Our party also supports the amendment and the people in Apollo House. If the amendment were enacted, it would report back that some of the stick measures to push supply are contained, unfortunately, in amendments Nos. 7 and 8, which have been ruled out of order. Those amendments set out very practical measures to introduce changes to the Derelict Sites Act, advance the vacant site levy and introduce a site value tax as a real mechanism across the city, not just Apollo House, to get properties onto the market. I support the idea of re-examining it in three months' time. This is the real crisis and emergency. We have the mechanisms to deal with it in some of those measures, as set out in our amendments, and a report would help bring them into action.

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