Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The Taoiseach's latest announcement today was on the effort to do something about the housing crisis, which we have now had for ten, 12 or more years. I ask the Taoiseach to clarify whether the development charges are being wiped out. I think the Taoiseach said to Deputy Healy-Rae that they were to be for people who are building one-off houses. Where will the county councils get the funding? Will they have to increase the local property tax, LPT, to make up for the shortfall in funding that the Government will now have to give to the developers and its friends in the tents in Galway and elsewhere? I am not against development at all, but this needs to be properly thought through. We need a full debate on it in this House, because they are running futa fata. They do not know whether they are coming or going.

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