Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 26 September 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness: Discussion

5:00 pm

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

On the voids, we have had Mary from the Department discussing this and we have been around the houses. My understanding is that the bulk of them are casual vacancies; they are just the ones that cost over €40,000 to refurbish because of the lack of cyclical maintenance. Am I to take it from Mr. Kenny's report that those 800 units are the re-lets that are coming out through that process? Is it not the case that when the Department presents its annual output figures of additions to the stock, it is including some of those properties? We get the new builds, the acquisitions, the regenerations and the voids. We have had this conversation with the Department. Of what it is including as new output on the voids, some are expensive casual re-lets, some are long-term vacant, and some are the two into ones that Dublin City Council has been doing. Some of those are slipping into the departmental figures we get at the start of every year, are they not?

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