Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 23 November 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Vacant Housing (Refurbishment) Bill 2017: Discussion
9:30 am
Mr. Terry Sheridan:
-----conservation, electricity connections and Irish Water connections, all of which increase costs and give rise to risks and uncertainties for developers. We are trying to streamline the whole process as much as possible, as I said, to co-ordinate and manage better the way the interdisciplinary teams within local authorities operate. Part of the guidance we are developing is to provide greater clarity on how these buildings can be brought back into use. We are therefore ultimately working towards the exact same objective, although coming at it from a different approach, that is, to maximise the reuse of properties, minimise the risk and reduce regulatory barriers as much as we can. That is where we are coming from with our work under Pillar 5.
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