Vacant Properties
Dail Éireann — 2022-05-31
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Colm Burke (FG), Cork North-Central

I wish to follow on from what was said earlier in response to another question from Deputy Stanton about the use of the compulsory purchase mechanism. In cases where property owners have defective title, I have seen that mechanism used by Cork City Council. The property owner engages with the council, the council serves a derelict sites order and rectifies the title problems through the derelict sites procedure and then conveys the property back to the property owner again, at a charge to the owner, obviously. This rectifies the title and allows the property to be developed and put to use. Has there been further engagement with local authorities about using this mechanism where property owners cannot develop because they have defective title and need to rectify that?

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Sitting date: 2022-05-31