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:
The work of the Dublin housing delivery group is focused on that. Dublin City Council and Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council both have particular issues about how to get it off the ground. It tends to be apartments that need to be brought forward because they are the permissions available to us. They are more expensive and more complex to produce. If it can be done by activating vacant commercial buildings, I do not see why it should not be done. As long as we get the product at the other end, we can be fairly agnostic about where it comes from. There is certainly an environmental and sustainability reason to do that.
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