Mary Seery Kearney (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

In the context of the intellectual heavyweights on the committee, my questioning will seem very simple. My home constituency is Dublin South-Central. It encompasses Dublin 6, 8, 10 and 12 and areas like that. I have worked with members of the local community in Dublin 8 who put together a list of all the derelict sites that are not on the register. How is it that there are derelict sites that are not on a derelict sites register? What is the mechanism for ensuring they are placed on the register? How do some properties fall through the gaps? I am curious to get underneath how it is all compiled and account kept. This is very rudimentary in the scale of the questions that are asked at the committee but the local community members have put together a comprehensive list of sites, including blatant and obvious ones, that have not been picked up. How does that happen and what should be done about it? It may be that I need to do something different about it. I ask the witnesses to explain how it happens.