Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 30 May 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Homelessness Issues: Discussion
Ms Ann-Marie O'Reilly:
The idea of procurement was mentioned earlier. I know that local authorities struggle with compulsory purchase orders. Perhaps something like that could be looked at going forward. We hear a lot about vacant properties and sites. It seems quite difficult to determine what degree of vacancy is out there. At least where a local authority has identified a site or a property that is sitting vacant in the long term, it could go ahead and start the process of procuring that property. I would suggest initiatives like that, and the possibility of using new technologies or builds, as mentioned earlier.
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