Dr. Frank O'Connor:

By way of clarification, we visited every property we listed over a period of a few weeks or a few months. We went back quite a few times to confirm the dereliction. We eventually had 450 on the thread over 12 months, but we left a couple of hundred more properties out because we stopped after one year. At the time we started the thread, there were approximately 95 properties on the Cork City Council derelict site register. Based on our short study of a 2 km radius of Cork city centre, we came up with a figure of 450, but it could have been a couple of hundred more. That shows there is a lot of discrepancy in terms of the figures.