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NAMA’s concerns about the hoarding of land which should be used for housing could be tackled with increased penalties and incentives contained in an already published Social Democrats’ Bill. The party’s co-leader Catherine Murphy TD said government support for the legislation would show that the Minister for Finance was serious about tackling this problem, which […]

The Social Democrats today publish a Bill to free up more vacant land for housing. Publishing the Bill today, Social Democrats co-leader Catherine Murphy TD said: “The housing crisis is not caused by a shortage of land to develop. It’s down to the fact that we are not building on the land that we have. Urban […]

  The Social Democrats have called for an immediate response from the Minister for Children, Katherine Zappone, to the revelations regarding the role of Tusla in the Sergeant Maurice McCabe affair. Speaking this morning, Social Democrat co-leader Róisín Shortall said; “The extraordinary sequence of events regarding these vile allegations made against Sergeant McCabe require a […]