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

We need to spend about €12 billion per year to really tackle the problem. Some €4 billion of that will come from the State and €8 billion from elsewhere. My job and my role, and what I want to do, comes back to what I said about Dublin Port: do we need all of the land with the expectation that it would double the amount of traffic in the port? I would say "No". We should take some of those pockets of land that are within walking distance of the city centre, where the problem is at its most acute, and build high-quality housing particularly for cost rental housing, through the Land Development Agency. We have started this, it is not just talk. We started with Irish Rail and with land to the west of Heuston Station and around Conyngham Road bus station to start planning now to put in housing now. I could go through this Department by Department, public land by public land. That we have control of and that we can do, in line with also getting the €8 billion which we need from the private sector. We need both of those combined to tackle the problem.

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