Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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162. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of compulsory purchase orders, CPOs, currently in process in relation to the acquisition of vacant properties by local authorities; the number of CPOs which were completed in each of the years 2013 to 2016 and to date in 2017; and if this information is not available, the reason he is not keeping track of this. [12327/17]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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My Department does not collect the specific information requested in relation to the compulsory acquisition of vacant properties by local authorities. Local authorities have been, and continue to be, in a position to acquire significant substantial numbers of vacant properties for social housing without recourse to compulsory purchase processes; details of such acquisitions are collated and published on my Department's website at the following link: . The potential role of compulsory purchase orders in addressing the issue of vacant housing, and the issue of collecting associated statistics, will be considered further in light of the National Vacant Housing Re-use Strategy, currently being prepared.