Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 18 October 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed)
Mr. Brian Barrett:
We are working off the CSO preliminary census figures, which gives us a total of 2,963 vacant properties. The challenge with that within Galway city and why it might be higher is there are probably a lot of short-term lets because of the tourism business. That may increase the figures that are identified as vacant properties but they are actually active. That is a challenge that we have.
To come back on another matter, the actual figure for the housing waiting list is 4,321 households. Regarding the targets, while we are at 60%, we will exceed the delivery next year because a number of the projects are slipping into quarters 1 and 2 of next year. We will exceed our delivery next year.
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