Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

There has been a greater uptake as well. It can be seen in the quarterly reports that we are now including the vacant homes that are coming back in. I want to emphasise that the voids are not part of this. I always resisted that. The voids are separate. They are important under social housing. Actual housing stock that is coming back into use is being reported on a quarterly basis. We will follow up on the specific one about commercial to residential. Also under the compulsory purchase order, CPO, activation programme from the urban regeneration and development fund, URDF 4, we gave €150 million to local authorities. We have more than 1,200 properties approved for acquisition under this programme. This will deliver more than 5,400 residential units. Local authorities have been able to buy vacant properties through the URDF 3. They keep that money and we have already approved 1,224 properties that have been identified by local authorities. We do report on them every quarter and we will follow up on the commercial to residential conversion.