Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 24 January 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Tom Gilligan:

As the Deputy knows, Mayo County Council identified 17 properties that were social housing stock in Erris in the north Mayo area. There was a pilot in regard to doing work, particularly in regard to the outer leaf on that property, and that property was successful and tenants have been put back into that property. As part of our overall review of defective concrete blocks in Mayo, we have undertaken a desktop exercise in regard to stock that we believe will be part of a programme to bring them back into use. We are looking at that and we have-----