Ms Caroline Timmons:

We will take all that on board and have a look at it with Dublin City Council. We will take the comments to its vacant homes officers and the people they work with. The survey will be the first step and will inform what the plan might be. I can see what an accelerated plan might involve.

We are interested in all avenues for providing affordable housing, especially cost-rental housing in the city. That is something we are active on at the moment. The Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage is working hard to try to bring that forward. The AHBs and LDA are also working hard. We can see it coming. It just takes quite some time. We are seeing big mixed-tenure sites come forward now. That is exciting but it will be a few years before people see them on the ground.