Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I am coming to an end on this. The Minister will be familiar with the sight, as he walks through the streets of Dublin, of commercial properties with dwellings, or what once were dwellings, above them lying vacant. In some cases they are a scar on the landscape. Some of them are derelict - not painted, windows boarded up, widows smashed and so on. In a scenario in which there is a commercial operation at ground level of such a building and what were residential properties above, and if the residential portion is not ratable by the local authority because it is not being used for business purposes - that is, if by definition it is unratable - will it be deemed a vacant property?