Carol Tallon

What a deplorable speech by Pauline Hanson today.

And is there anyone in this country that Pauline doesn't hate?

Is there anyone she's not willing to beat up on and punch down to?

Pauline Hanson has shown today she's the same old crank she's always been.

Same old racism, same old division, same old fear, same old nastiness.

Good morning Ciara and absolutely this is a very deliberate and robust change but I think it's really important to say at the outset that any faux outrage from sitting government is just incredibly unfair on the local authorities that have been under-resourced, disempowered and have been under enormous pressure over recent years.

So yes there's a problem but for

sitting government to blame local authorities seems incredibly unhelpful.

However, we will take this moving forward as a really positive step.

The derelict property tax, as it will be now applied, we're still waiting to know what's the definition of derelict, what is considered underuse.

But the reality is, in our towns and cities, we have such, and villages, we've such a high level of underuse

as well as vacancy, as well as dereliction, that actually that's a real slap in the face for our generation of renters or people who can't even get on the rental ladder.

So it's a really positive thing.

Arguably too late, but it's better now than never.

But I think the blame game, we're just past that stage now.

Ireland is in a state of a housing emergency.

So it's good to see government pull every lever it has at its disposal to make the available space

ready for occupation.

Actually, I'm glad you asked about the data.

And before I throw out a figure, I no longer trust the data.