Colm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

That is interesting. I deal with banks in a different capacity as a solicitor. In the last few months I have come across two properties that were in possession of banks, which have been vacant for more than ten years. Vulture funds have come along and bought from banks and I do not understand why the State could not have done the same in a far greater capacity. How many properties in total were repossessed by the banks in that five- to eight-year period?