Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 21 October 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Vacancy and Dereliction: Discussion
2:00 am
Malcolm Noonan (Green Party)
I agree. On the point Mr. O'Connor made about the conversations with neighbours and on streets, we tried it in Kilkenny purely from a social experiment perspective and it is amazing. There was the old retail families who used to live on streets. Separately - and I would welcome Mr. O'Connor's views on this - I feel there seems to be a lack of coherence around that. There are lots of good grants. There is BHIS, HSF and lots of good grant schemes and small incentive schemes that will get us to the scale we need to get to with this while looking at the town as an entity street by street. It concerns me that-----
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