Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 5 March 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Update on Homelessness: Discussion

Mr. Richard Guiney:

That process has not begun, to be honest. There are issues around fire regulation in terms of bringing units above shops back into productive use. We need to look at our neighbours, particularly close ones like Scotland. The building stock in Glasgow is very similar to ours, and many more properties there are being brought back into productive use. There is, therefore, great scope to address that. The feedback we have got from our members who are property owners is that it is not economically viable to do that. That needs to be addressed. The issue is primarily with the regulation side to bring these spaces into productive use.

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