'Like hiding food in a famine' - Green TD slams Fianna Fail plans to shelve land hoarding tax as Taoiseach says Cabinet decisions 'collective'

"Is Fianna Fáil serious about tackling the housing crisis or isn't it? 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."

"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."

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