Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party)
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One of the issues that arose in the discussions we had on dereliction, vacancy and the CPO process was that the regulatory process involved can be quite expensive. The costs involved in the regulatory process can make it prohibitive to bring a second and third floor of a property back into use and provide two or three dwellings. Did the Housing Agency find that was the case in the research it has done or in feedback it received from local authorities?