Ruth Coppinger (Dublin West, Anti-Austerity Alliance) | Oireachtas source

I want to ask about the policy of the Government and of local authorities that involves selling off or gifting public lands to private developers, thereby allowing them to control even more of the housing supply at a time of housing emergency. This represents a huge break with the past, when the councils would have built public housing on those lands. I think this is a key problem and is contributing to the ongoing major housing emergency.

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