Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 8 November 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Michael Walsh:

All I am saying is that it is a policy decision. There is a degree of difficulty and cost involved in putting properties on the derelict sites register. Our experience working hard at it over a period of time, particularly in the early years of the registration, is that we got no yield on income relative to that and we found that serving notices under the Derelict Sites Act to improve properties and many of the other instruments worked far better. I would still say to the Deputy that the proof of the pudding is in the eating in terms of the overall performance.

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