Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

That funding will restart the local housing authority scheme directly. We put forward €15 million to restore up to 1,800 vacant units, particularly here in Dublin, designed to reduce pressure on the housing lists. There is no reason many of these units have been boarded up for years when they could be turned into comfortable warm homes for people to live in.

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