Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 25 October 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Implementation of Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Robert Burns:

I will answer in relation to Fingal. Our vacant homes unit is within housing and it is somebody in my department. We have a full-time vacant home officer and two staff there. We are looking at what else we might need, so that is growing. We have had a vacant homes team in place for maybe five or six years. The derelict sites team sits within the planning department in Fingal and that would be typical of a lot of local authorities, so the two of them work very closely together. We exchange information and work together on things like enforcement or engagement with landowners.

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