Ms Maria Graham:

In Rebuilding Ireland, there were vacant homes officers and manuals and so on were developed. The legislation has been in place. There have been various regeneration schemes. There have been various issues over the past 30 years. We can look at areas of cities that were derelict and are no longer. It is a difficult issue to crack and it has to be focused on across legislation, regulation, funding, taxation and enabling. It is important to help people through the process and collaborative participation and having a vision for towns that people can work to in partnership together. If everything is working in the right direction, then we will tackle vacancy and dereliction.