Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 21 February 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government

Housing Rental Sector Strategy: Discussion

11:00 am

Mr. David Silke:

On Deputy O'Dowd's contribution about vacant homes, as part of our work we are linking in with England and Scotland, which have very low vacancy rates. The rate in England is 2.5%, which is about a quarter of the vacancy rate here. There are lessons to be learned from that.