Thomas Gould (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I have a couple of brief questions remaining. Vacant homes officers are like sites officers. Was it Mr. Keegan who made the point earlier about having additional staff? As for vacancy and dereliction, in my constituency of Cork North-Central and Cork city and county we have 7,000 vacant properties. In the areas I represent there are 20, 30 or 40 buildings, former homes, lying idle. Even from an environmental point of view, it is a matter of delivering housing that is already built. I do not think the staff are there. We need teams, not an individual or a part-time officer. How many full-time vacant homes and derelict sites officers have the local authorities now to deal with those sites?