Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I was going to bring to the Minister's attention those well-known fantastic sites such as O'Devaney Gardens and the bottom of Dominick Street. Dublin City Council has been sitting on those lands and other lands in the city which have been derelict for a long time. Full-scale profiteering in land values is now a serious hindrance to house-building. There are too many people sitting on sites because they are just waiting as the values climb and climb. That is not helping ordinary families who desperately need to see more houses and more apartments built, including by the city council.

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