Paul Donnelly (Dublin West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I reiterate that the concept of bottom-up is not new, but the idea has been lost over a number of years. I welcome that there is a focus on this idea, but the fact that there are substantial numbers of derelict buildings still in existence in the middle of the housing crisis is entirely puzzling, or maybe it is not puzzling given that insufficient action has been taken over the past five or six years to bring these buildings back into use.

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