Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 1 February 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government

Derelict Sites and Underused Spaces: Discussion

9:30 am

Mr. Michael Walsh:

Yes. For some properties, if there is a second refusal, the process literally must start again. It is important people understand that there are a number of stages to the process. Even in the case of choice-based letting, one must advertise the property for a couple of weeks, offer it, get a response from the people and manage Garda vetting at the same time. This takes a number of weeks, no matter what way one does it. The process must be followed. I am sure Ms Keenan is not there yet, but our experience since we have started choice-based letting is that there has been significant improvement in this context.

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