Dáil debates

Wednesday, 28 September 2022

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions

Housing Policy

11:20 am

Photo of Darragh O'BrienDarragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I am not the Minister for Finance but the derelict site levy is in place. We need that stick. The vacant property tax is a commitment in the programme for Government and an action in Housing for All that we are bringing forward too. We have made some quite significant changes to the repair and lease scheme recently and removed a lot of those barriers. Repair and lease is a very good way of getting vacant and derelict properties back into use for social housing. I have seen many of them right across the country. Earlier this week I was with Deputy Aindrias Moynihan in Macroom and saw some fantastic work being done there in relation to town regeneration. It is happening all over the country. It might disappoint some people but it is. We kept the scheme as simple as possible. This will be on top of using CPO through the Housing Agency. There are a number of streams there. This Government and most Deputies are committed to keeping this assistance and making sure the scheme works. If it needs to be tweaked along the way, we will do that. It only launched on 14 July.

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