Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 11 October 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Implementing Housing for All: Discussion
Mr. Coil?n O'Reilly:
We have 650 potential units, including vacant premises over retail and commercial premises. We have identified those, as Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council did, through reports from Senators, Deputies, councillors, members of the public and surveys. The vacant homes website has been a significant asset to us too. We are assessing and going through them. In our statement, we said that delivery of over-the-shop units is more difficult. It entails fire regulations, multiple users and somebody running a retail premises below it. In many cases in Dublin city, there are not two access points. Access is through the shop. If the Deputy is familiar with shops on main streets, access is through the shop's front door. Shops would have people entering and exiting their homes through the shops. We will deliver anything that we can. We are taking these units on board and assessing them.
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