Tom Phillips
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367 appearances
5 recordings
3 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 7 Jul
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It's not a binary thing of one or the other.
It's both at the same time.
Do you agree?
I don't, and I agree with Carol about the faux outrage, because the state itself is the owner of many derelict properties, and we don't even have a single register of derelict properties owned by the state.
And that could be, well, there's obviously a definition from underutilised and derelict.
And derelict has been around for 36 years.
We have a Derelict Sites Act, and the state itself doesn't have a register of all the properties it owns in the first place.
And then secondly, it doesn't have a register of all the lands
that it has that are gone beyond being underutilised and actually derelict.
So I think that the state should really look at itself first before it blames the 31 local authorities who have been under-resourced for many, many years and things like planners weren't on the critical skills list and there's only so many planners are produced a year in the various universities and yet they're suddenly given the resources and supposed to deal with something that's been there for 36 years overnight.
So I agree with Carl, it is the wrong
uh metric to look at and to go after the after local authorities that's an easy target i think it's the state to look at itself first and look at all the state-owned property and local authority-owned properties and then look at the private sector because the state in using revenue to chase private owners or property is it's they're very easy targets but what happens when the state itself has got large buildings that are derelict i'll give you an example there's a fantastic building down in dublin docklands in the pigeon house besides the old georgian building which is an old
electricity generation plant, a brick building that was always used in foils as a film set.
And it's derelict and it's owned by the state and it's falling down and it's protected structure.
Why isn't that building fixed first before you start penalising the private sector who are already dealing with the difficulty moving and enabling and activating developments because it could be under
provision of water, electricity, transport, all those other issues that happen.
So the first thing you should do is get a register and publish it of state-owned derelict property, then go after the private sector.
I don't.
I think it's a rebranding because at the moment it's quite punitive at 7% and it's been around for 36 years.
It is under-collected in certain places, but it's also, I would say, more to the fact that it's unevenly distributed across the various local authorities.
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