Dessie Ellis (Dublin North West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The local authority has to designate sites as derelict before they issue a CPO. That is something of a process. Even at that, the authority is struggling to get them. Dublin City Council has identified some of the units to which Mr. Walsh has referred. I have spoken to the council about them. Anyway, at the moment, nothing has been delivered. That is frustrating. Places are lying idle for ten or 15 years. We are not even at the stage where we have any of them back. It is frustrating.