Gary Gannon (Dublin Central, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

How can anyone who lives in urban centres, such as my constituency of Dublin Central, see in the Taoiseach’s announcement yesterday to exempt apartments from stamp duty and planning as anything other than an abandonment of our city centres as a place to live or to aspire to own an apartment and raise a family? I cannot for the life of me understand why we can have one particular set of rules for suburbia and another for city centres. This was an abandonment and a white flag was raised by the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, and it must be tackled.

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