Paul McAuliffe (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the witnesses for being with us for the last two hours. With the number of hands still indicating there is still an hour ahead of us. The points made by Anois on the impact of dereliction on the wider community, as opposed to a solution to the housing crisis, is very important because what we want to do is identify solutions to dereliction. That is not just to deliver more housing units. It is because of the lived experience all of us have of the problems it causes. I will take this opportunity to come back and clarify Dublin City Council's street survey because it is interesting and captures exactly the problem we have. Of the 213 vacant homes there were 49, almost one quarter, identified by neighbours as being non-occupied, and 16 of those were long term. Can Mr. Shakespeare explain the difference between those two figures for me? What is the difference between the 49 being non-occupied and the 16 being long-term non-occupied?