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:

There is an ongoing review of Part B. They are considering the consultation pieces they have had in and they will then be due to report. As part of that work, we committed in the action plan published earlier this year to look again at the Bringing Back Homes manual. That was the first response to the one-stop shop narrative in terms of how we do that, how we put it all in one place and how we get them all to work together. That was quite a successful document in terms of bringing that together and we can do that again. The vacant homes unit will be part of that process of redoing the manual and, as part of that, looking at the structures needed to make those pieces work together and find out how we streamline them. I expect that whatever we do on the fire side will feed into that process as well. Certainly, our building standards people will be sitting on that group going forward. We will come back on that throughout the next year and see what we can do on that front.

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