Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 15 June 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Dereliction and Vacancy: Discussion
Ms Caroline Timmons:
Yes. Obviously, we have only just given the CPO activation programme an aim for it, but we plan to monitor it quarterly and, after that, we will see how we are going. There is actually a lot more contact than that with the vacant homes unit in the Department for the vacant homes officers, VHOs. Even on something like the vacancy grant, it is real-time data that we get back in so we know exactly what is going on at all times. It depends. With something like the vacancy survey the local authorities might be talking to us quarterly.