Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

When the voids programme was first announced, it was about long-term vacant properties in the first instance. I am not challenging what the Minister is doing, but I am saying I think this needs to be spelled out very clearly in the figures so that people are absolutely clear on whether something is an expensive re-let, rather than a 2:1 or a property that has been brought back into use after being derelict for a long time. There are fundamental differences between the categories. I would challenge the appropriateness of counting as a new unit something which had a tenant in it a couple of months previously and may or may not have fallen out of stock if this additional funding had not been made available.