There are 167,000 vacant buildings and 75 ghost estates in the country, so any time we’re walking down the road and see another derelict building most of us say: "Someone should do something about that."

"Someone" being the local authorities. I hear so many people say there should be a levy on derelict buildings in Ireland without knowing that there already is one. 

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