The idea of having a 10 acre car park at Dublin Port as people wait for housing is 'ludicrous', Newstalk Breakfast presenter Shane Coleman has said.
It comes as Dublin Port is refusing to give up its car compound, despite Environment Minister Eamon Ryan saying it should be housing people and not cars.
The car compound at Dublin Port can hold around 2,500 imported cars as they await distribution to salesrooms around the country.
Minister Ryan and the Land Development Agency want the site to be used for housing.
Dublin Port has rejected the idea, according to the Irish Independent, saying the compound is a critical facility and it has nowhere else to house newly-imported cars.
Shane said he thinks the idea of keeping a 10 acre car park is 'ludicrous'.
"I don't see why those cars need to be stored at the port," he said.
"They have been transported from the UK or Europe, presumably they were stored somewhere else beforehand.
"You can bring them 15 miles, 20 miles outside - you don't need to have 10 acres in the city centre to store those cars.
"To me it is ludicrous that we have a 10 acre car park in the city centre when that land could be used [for housing]."
"You could high-rise at the port, you could have really high-rise down there," he added.
'I don't know if they are correct'
Presenter Ciara Kelly said she doesn't know if it needs to be there.
"I don't enough about the functioning of Dublin City Port, and if it does need it as a critical facility the port has to be allowed to function," she said.
"I know we need housing above all else, to be fair, but I don't know if they are correct in this.
"Obviously one of the things the port does is it bring in containers, it brings in car - it is a freight hub.
"Does it need places to store freight like cars? I'm sure it does - whether it needs to be there or not, I don't know.
"It seems an unusual spat between the two of them," she added.
