Mary Fitzpatrick (Fianna Fail)
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I understand the focus on having "an" office within the local authorities but now that there are at least vacant housing officers in each local authority, would they not be better positioned to help expedite the process? The town centre first people, from my experience, are good and they work to good values and aspirations but it is a much broader concept type of work, whereas vacant housing officers deal with the specific application of turning a vacant or derelict property into a habitable one. Expanding and resourcing that role, which in practice works, would be beneficial in ramping up and accelerating the regeneration and reuse of vacant and derelict properties.