Ms Sonya Kavanagh:

We have a very similar situation to our colleagues in Meath. I do not have the figures in front of me for the derelict sites, although the Deputy called them out. What we are doing as part of the work of the town regeneration officer and that team is that the vacant housing officer will be working with the environment section to try to identify any properties that can actively be brought back into use for social housing. We are trying to put a focus on that and make use of that. We have had some success on that previously but we would have the same sorts of issues with particular sites in towns where there is no potential for using them as social housing.