Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 3 March 2015
Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government
Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised)
5:10 pm
Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein)
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I welcome the Minister, the two Ministers of State and the officials. I would like to know the number of voids in Laois that were funded. As far as I am aware there is only one void house not in use that should be in use. The county has boarded up houses all right, but they are private houses. I have raised this issue previously with the Minister. I believe there should be a bar on landlords buying houses that were previously local authority houses in order to rent them out.