Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

The Minister of State referred to section 23(7) earlier. The committee produced a report on urban regeneration. It had a number of recommendations about creating a single entity to gather data on vacancy and dereliction condition scoring on buildings. I am conscious that we cannot, at this stage, substantially expand the role Tailte Éireann would perform. Would that fall within this area so that it could be assigned to Tailte Éireann at some stage? It was apparent in all the sessions we had. We are all keen to address dereliction and vacancy for numerous positive reasons, but there is a lack of information. There are many data sources and much information comes in from various groups and entities, but we need somebody to pull it altogether. A geographical information system, GIS, mapping format would be easier to understand. Will the Minister of State consider that as something that we could look at for Tailte Éireann?