Mr. Coilín O'Reilly:

From our point of view we have adequate resources. We have two people who are funded by the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage and one who is funded through the Department of Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht. As I said earlier, we 673 properties identified in Carlow and 146 have been brought back into use. We have compulsorily purchased 32 and 30 social houses have been created through derelict and vacant properties. When we talk about CPO, one thing that would be very helpful would be timeframes for how long we engage with somebody before moving through the stages of a CPO. Is it six months or three months? It varies and it depends on the situation. I means some sort of timeframe where the first time we write somebody a letter and say their property is derelict and we intend to compulsorily purchase it, that they have six months to do A, B or C and if it is not done it moves to the next stage.