Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 13 December 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed)
Mr. Declan Dunne:
It is a very low percentage. The bottom line is that it still represents homes that people could be in. In our organisation, we have quite a large working group because in order to move properties forward there is a number of different things that have to happen. First, you can have difficult stock that is very old and that needs significant work to bring it back into use. You also have different experiences regarding the actual need and demand in certain areas and the suitability of a particular property to the people on the list at a particular time. It is not really an issue in Dublin or the larger cities, but it can be the case in smaller areas. We are working very hard on this. Our boards are asking us every day how we are doing. It is a very small proportion of what we are doing, but we would really love it to be zero.