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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF TALLAGHT AREA COMMITTEE

Monday, January 23, 2017

QUESTION NO. 10

QUESTION: Councillor C. King

"To ask the Chief Executive to provide a report detailing how many vacant and/or boarded up houses and apartments there are in the Tallaght area that are owned by the banks due to repossessions or other reasons, how long they are lying vacant, what banks are involved, what efforts have been made by the banks to refurbish and sell them and how many SDCC have declared an interest in purchasing from the banks with a view to allocating them to families on our housing list?"

REPLY:

"The Council is not in a position to supply this information as we do not have it.  We did meet with the banks with a view to opening dialog with them on such houses but for data protection reasons they were not in a position to share the information. 

The Housing Agency is negotiating with them banks on a national basis for any houses they wish to sell to the Councils and we have been the recipients of a number of such houses."