The Government is to spend €1.5m to deal with safety issues in up to 2,000 unfinished housing developments and ghost estates around the country.
The Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Willie Penrose, said a national co-ordination team will be set up to to deal with the issue of ghosts estates. He will chair the team.
But in the meantime, emergency measures will be taken to fund safety improvements where there are urgent needs in dozens of unfinished estates around the country.
A detailed housing development report has found that there were 23,250 complete and vacant dwellings and an additional 9,976 dwellings that are near complete.
The report also found a total of 2,846 housing developments were inspected in the national survey and of these almost 33%, or 932 developments, were substantially complete and occupied, 150 developments are more than 90% complete and 109 developments had initiated site works but no construction work had commenced.
Also included in the report published today it is recommendation that teams should be established within financial institutions, NAMA, the Construction Industry Federation, approved housing bodies and local authorities to facilitate cooperation, decision making and information sharing.
