'People crying out for homes' - Greens furious over Fianna Fail plans to shelve tax on land hoarding

"Everyone in Government agrees that we need in the region of 50,000 new homes every year, but that's going to be impossible if we allow speculators to sit on parcels of land that have been specifically zoned and serviced with infrastructure such as roads, electricity wires and water supplies."

"The Government had agreed to this measure in order to ensure that speculators aren't just sitting on land that's been earmarked for new homes in order to watch its value go up."

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