There are now more than 37,000 empty homes in Dublin according to new data from the Central Statistics Office.
Senator Mary Fitzpatrick has slammed the figure as "morally wrong" and has called on the Minister for Finance to bring in a vacant property tax. The Fianna Fáil politician says that the tax should be brought in immediately in light of Ireland's housing crisis.
There are more than 166,000 empty homes across the country according to the new data. Senator Fitzpatrick has stressed that the quickest way to increase housing stock in Ireland would be to renovate vacant homes.
