Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 15 June 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Dereliction and Vacancy: Discussion
Ms Caroline Timmons:
-----and be positive and proactive. We are not really in the penalisation space at present but it is the first year of the programme. If the Deputy is asking whether we have a heavy penalty, there is no straight-line penalty. At the moment, we are being positive and trying to bring local authorities along. We need to do that first. If some local authority is not performing later on, we might examine other ways to encourage it.
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