Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Targets have also been set for each local authority on CPOs or repair and lease. The committee did a report, either last year or the year before, and it is good to see a lot of the recommendations that we had made being enacted now. One of those was the data gathering exercise. It is quite impressive that 18 local authorities are going out mobile. Score conditioning was recommended in the report. It can be stated that a house is vacant or derelict, but is it completely uninhabitable or does it just need a little bit of work done to it to bring it back? This is very important data gathering. I am glad to see that.

Will those local authorities then report back each year to the Department or will it be quarterly or six-monthly? We do not want to leave the reporting for too long and we want to identify, perhaps each quarter, whet the progress is and maybe track those. Is that the type of reporting we are looking at or would that be too short a timeframe?