Emer Higgins (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I will not bring in any new topics because I had listed 20 questions that we did not get through. We spoke about vacancy rates and voids and I want to figure out if there are any impediments or barriers that we as a committee could help remove to help to get those figures down even lower? I had heard on the grapevine that Garda checks are an issue sometimes and that they hold things up so if there is anything like that, now is the opportunity to raise it.

We spoke about accessible homes and the difference between part M compliance and fully specced-out in terms of the downstairs bathroom and all the rest. Does anybody have any targets? Is that a key performance indicator, KPI, and is it something in the plan for delivering fully specced-out, accessible homes? I got the views of a couple of agencies on differential rents already in terms of whether we need a standardised differential rent and I know as part of the Housing for All plan there has a been a commitment to look at the whole model. My last question was about the UK valuation process Mr. Hannigan raised to get a litmus test from the other agencies as to whether that is something they agree on. Perhaps if Tuath Housing could start as I have not heard from them yet.