County Councillors should really be ashamed of themselves for rezomkng and giving planning permission for units that clearly weren’t needed.

Maybe if the little jobs created in this country was outside of dublin now and again more and more people would be able to stay in their homes down the country.

Time ta go squatting me thinks

There’a definite pattern in that map that shows much lower vacancy around Dublin, Cork and Limerick (and to a lesser extent Galway) than is generally true nationally.

We actually manage to risk a situation where we run out of housing stock in our cities, but because of the general national oversupply, we have financial problems that make it impossible to do anything about it.

Who will turn lights out

If you want jobs outside Dublin you then require proper public transport etc, you really think the sub humans in the Dail are going to use their collective braincell and do that !.

If the goverment would just rent & sell all these empty house’s for realistic value for money instead of trying in vein to keep the property market high for there own vested interest & bad investments cause we all know most politicians spent loads of cash on nothing properties. You cant stop the inevitable, property must be allowed hit a natural rock bottom, so start selling & renting out these 10′s of 1,000′s of VACANT properties in Ireland for value for money prices!

I’m curious to know what the figures are for the homeless and those living below the poverty line, and those waiting on list for council housing and those in deplorable council housing looking for better accommodation. Then compare those numbers to the number of houses unoccupied around the country. Just saying.

This paints a very worrying picture for Leitrim. If no investment is made there and no attempt at building up it’s economy is done then it will only face more problems in the future, I see hard-hit places in recessions(due to the fact they expose all of the problems in such places) as opportunities to start from scratch and build up an economy sustainable in the long term in those areas. Government has to act quick in Leitrim if they want them to be part of our national economy which they have to be as we never know when we might need to fall back onto them due to unforeseen losses in other areas of the country, a national recovery has to be one encompassing all of our country and leaving just 1 county out could have drastic consequences in the long term.

That’s a savage gaff in Leitrim, but shame it’s in Leitrim.

I would love to see similar information about Northern Ireland on the map, would be interesting to compare!

“As the total housing stock grew to almost 2 million homes, this gives a vacancy rate of 14.5 percent. Although the number of vacant homes rose by 23,000 since 2006, the vacancy rate declined slightly by 0.5 percent” CSO, I guess reporting the fact that the actual number of vacant properties fell since the height of the boom is less dramatic.

Also as the number of holiday homes increased during the period the actual decline in “Real” homes that are vacant, despite the crash etc has been actually bigger. Good news for once.

In my ghost estate there are 14 boarded up houses belonging to the co council. Before they were boarded up for the second time with metal covers on windows and doors. Theses houses were vandalised, had everything stolen out of them, interior doors, copper tanks, fitted kitchens. fixtures and fittings and have been sitting empty for the past 3 years. It’s a disgrace with people on waiting lists for houses and the council won’t use them as theses are for the affordable house scheme. So you would wonder how many empty houses around the country belong to the councils. This is also a reason I refuse to register for the household tax even though I am Exempt as IF this tax is to fund local services (which I dont think it is considering there is another bond hold pay out the same day as the deadline for the household tax) but why should we hand over €100 for the council to do up a house that they sat back and allowed to be vandalised!