Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I have a question about the occupancy of emergency accommodation. There was an example in Holybrook Park, Clontarf, where Dublin City Council leased a house from private interests for emergency accommodation. My understanding is that the council was boxed into a situation. A person owned the property next door and a situation arose whereby the council was not going to get one without the other, but the other properly lay empty for two years. That is my information. My question is on the general point relating to occupancy. If the local authorities are leasing these properties for homeless accommodation, what kind of value are we getting? What is the percentage of vacancy in those?