Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

It needs to happen urgently. On the land initiative, as proposed, I believe it is the public private partnership, PPP, model dressed up. The State needs to get a handle on housing proposals. The proposals put forward by Sinn Féin and others, including my colleague, Councillor Shane O'Brien, in dealing with the Shanganagh Castle site, bypass the private developer-led models in favour of a method of delivering social and affordable purchase and rental homes on these two key sites. I will go further and argue that such development should take place on all sites, but these are two sites which, if developed, would show the Government and private developers that the State was willing to intervene when necessary to deliver homes to those who deserved them. This model needs to be pursued urgently.

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