Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 30 March 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government
Quarterly Progress Report Strategy for Rented Sector: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (Resumed)
2:00 pm
Mr. David Walsh:
We are working under Pillar 5, which covers the vacant homes re-use strategy. We hope to finalise this in the coming weeks. The work involves taking the census data, trying to break it down and really understand the 198,000 figure. This work will focus in particular on urban areas. Once we have information on the buildings that are really derelict and unused and who owns them, we can use the tools available. I hope we will see far more units coming back into the system.
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