Daithí Doolan

And nobody in the private world, nobody in the private sector will have a magic wand to sort any of that out.

We do.

We will be focusing on them because

We want to make sure Dublin is living and vibrant and these communities have people living in these houses and that's what we intend to do.

That's what I'm focused on doing and that's what I'm sure that we'll be able to do in the not too distant future.

Well, the CPO process itself is very, very, very cumbersome.

And if you go through the courts, you're open to appeal.

Sometimes the people who own the property might charge you way above the market cost.

So it's a very cumbersome tool.

Some people think a CPO, you walk into a building and you own it.

You don't.

We have to go through a very, very long process through the courts.

And it's open to appeal because what you're trying to do is you're going to force the owner to sell it to you.

But I think there's a very important point here is the lack of direct labour.

Procurement is strangling local authorities, both in the renovating, maintaining and building property, Dublin City Council properties.

It's hugely cumbersome, made worse because of the procurement process.

It's that level of bureaucracy from the customs house and the Department of Environment is strangling any initiative in Dublin City Council.

And it sounds like other local authorities as well.

For us to build any more than one unit, we go to a very

labour-intensive procurement process.