Fine Gael’s proposals for the Dáil’s kingmakers

Fine Gael will today tell Independent TDs and smaller parties it will consider struggling family mortgage reforms, levies for vacant property ‘hoarders’, and a new rural towns and villages development scheme if they support Enda Kenny’s bid for power.

The proposals are outlined in a five-page “discussion document” sent last night to all politicians participating in round-table talks with the caretaker Taoiseach’s party, marking the first concrete deal since the post-election stalemate began.

The file, which has been seen by the Irish Examiner and includes 37 separate policy suggestions in response to last Thursday’s day-long negotiations on housing, contains no figures on how much any of the plans will cost.