Mr. Frank Curran:

Without a doubt. All our properties are what we see as low-hanging fruit. One of the things we have been working on this year and have had engagement with the Minister on is the need to try to reduce our standing void number. That number in Dublin city has been around 500. We are trying to get it to 400 or below because it is in essence building 100 new homes if we bring that number down. The issue is we get an awful lot of churn in the system with people transferring, passing away or for whatever reason. We will always have voids. Part of what drives people crazy is driving past a local authority house in Finglas, the central area or wherever it happens to be and seeing it boarded up. They say it is an absolute disgrace. The issue is getting that activated, getting contractors or our staff in there and getting it turned around as quickly as possible.

We have an active voids programme. It is top of my management list on a weekly basis with my housing operations manager. Where are we at? What are our numbers? What is on-site? What is coming back? We also have that conversation with our allocations team to make sure that team has the allocations done and we are not waiting to allocate them.