Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy has come under pressure to introduce new planning permission which urges developers to "use it or lose it".

The Minister first said he would bring proposals for use it or lose it planning permission to cabinet in October last year, after admitting the government's Strategic Housing Development (SHD) legislation was not working.

Sinn Féin representative Eoin Ó Broin has called on Minister Murphy to follow through with his promise after recent news a 10-acre site with planning permission in Temple Hill, Blackrock is being flipped.

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Deputy Ó Broin said: "Some developers are utilising the SHD legislation to get planning permission and then sitting on the sites as the value increases waiting to flip them.

"In Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown we see a ten-acre site in Temple Hill, Blackrock that was granted planning through the SHD legislation for 291 apartments being put up for sale.

"I echo the calls of our local area representative Shane O'Brien who is calling for the council to acquire the site as the council currently has no sites throughout Dún Laoghaire with planning permission.

"I have written to the CEO and the Housing Manger in Dún Laoghaire Rathdown calling on them to take action on this site."

(CM/JG)