Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 20 May 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: County and City Management Association

2:00 am

Mr. Eddie Taaffe:

Compulsory sale orders are something that should definitely be examined. If you take our URDF funding, where we CPO property, we are actually CPO-ing it to clean title on it. Where there is an owner, really we just want them to sell it. In some cases, the threat of the CPO is enough to make them put it on the market, which is what we want. There is a role for compulsory sale orders for properties like that where you bypass us acquiring it and then selling it, and it just goes straight to the market, which is ultimately what we want.

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