Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 26 June 2014
Public Accounts Committee
2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 10 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Costs of Land Remediation
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government
10:50 am
Mr. John McCarthy:
We have a number of mechanisms through which we can get data on that. The service indicator reports, which local authorities publish every 12 months, provide data. We updated that figure - maybe it is more relevant and more recent - for the purposes of the capital funding we are now making available for voids quite recently. The service indicators for 2012 showed us there were approximately 4,000 units vacant, which is of the order of approximately 3% of the stock. In the more recent survey we did for the purposes of the capital programme for investing in voids, the information we received from local authorities suggested there were just over 3,000 voids capable of being returned to productive use, so it is in that range of 3,000 to 4,000.
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