Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 8 November 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed)

Ms Caroline Curley:

It is a combination of issues. The state of the house in the first place is one. If there is little work to be done on a house, we can get it back onto the market quickly. If it is seriously damaged, we have to decide whether we can repair that house or work on five other houses that can be brought back into use instead. It is a combination of issues. We would welcome more money from the Department but we are working with it on the voids programme and on where houses are in such a bad condition that they are almost derelict. The Department has helped us with that to date.