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:

It goes back to the complexity of the process. You get a call that No. 1 The Orchard is vacant, you send somebody out to inspect it and they find out it is vacant. Then it goes on the to-do list so that it will be looked at. You go out again and do a title search to see who owns the property. You try to engage with that person and if they are willing to engage that is great and if they are not then you start writing letters to people. You have to do a number of inspections and from our point of view a property has to be vacant for over six months before we start to do that. This example is not a derelict property; it is a vacant one. It is about engaging with the individual but if people do not want to engage or if there is a contested title it is complex. It is a long process.

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