Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I will have to go back to Dublin City Council and ask it again. When I first came took up my position, I met the Attorney General and wrote to him formally to say that we needed to see if we could enhance our use of CPOs because it might be the quickest way to get vacant sites back into use rather than putting in place a levy, as we did on property and on land, that would have a certain timeline to come into effect. The reply from the Attorney General was that we could use CPOs and that local authorities have flexibility on how to use them. We should try to develop that as best practice. We discussed it and the potential for a lead authority to take it on and to help other local authorities at the housing summit.

On the Deputy's point about building social housing and larger quantities, we have a couple of bigger schemes coming.