Mary Lou McDonald: “There will be a referendum. Our objective is to secure that by the year 2030 but the referendums will happen and the…”

We cannot afford to be caught flat footed.

This is in everybody's interests.

If a new Derelict Property Tax is to be successful, it is essential that revenues generated are reinvested into local communities and returned to the local government sector to support regeneration activity.

Without that we are going to continue with the nightmare that we are seeing on our streets, and just to remind ourselves people have been badly injured and worse.