Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 8 March 2018

Public Accounts Committee

Vote 34: Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government

9:00 am

Mr. John McCarthy:

I will get that now for the Deputy. One of the consequences of the aftermath of the downturn was that local authorities found themselves presiding over increasing numbers of vacant stock, which they did not have the capital resources to refurbish. In 2016 the figure for voids was €34.8 million. It was a combination of three elements: the main void programme, the smaller derelict units programme and the very small two-into-one programme, where units were the local authority merged maisonette units into a modern unit. On average-----

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