Mr. John Brannigan:

There have been a number of projects over the years that we have delivered upon. I mentioned the two brownfield sites within Longford town that were derelict and we have brought them back to provide new housing units with over 50 housing units on two sites. We also acquired a post office that had laid vacant for a number of years within Longford town and we have funding in place to turn that into a tourist office and community space. We were also successful in acquiring the Army barracks a number of years ago and we have secured €7 million of town centre first heritage revival scheme, THRIVE, funding within the last number of weeks so there is continually, and will continue to be, a workload in front of our staff. While we want to reduce the number of vacancies and we as the local authority are leading out on that, we are also encouraging the private sector to come in and acquire some of these empty derelict properties and we are engaging with the private sector to that end, particularly within Granard.