Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 28 March 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Vacant Housing Refurbishment Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed)

9:30 am

Mr. Peter Hynes:

I will respond very briefly. We all share the aspiration to get vacant, older units back into use, none more so than rural local authorities. It is true the further we get from the skylines of the greater Dublin area, which are crowded with construction cranes, to places where they are a threatened species and still have not returned after the migration.