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. Colm Ward:
We have a vacant homes officer post in place. That was always supplemented by staff on the ground doing inspections. As the chief executive outlined earlier there is a imited number of potentially vacant properties. I think there are 73 at the moment that we are engaging with on an ongoing basis, doing inspections, engaging with the registered owner, and so on. However it is yielding very little traction in terms of bringing them back into stock for us because a lot of them are tied up in litigation, mortgage default and the fair deal scheme.
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