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Mayor Mark Ward and local representative William Carey at the vacant houses on Station Grove.

'Six houses vacant with 8,000 on the housing list is scandalous'

Station Grove was built in 2006.

THE MAYOR OF South Dublin has said that six homes lying idle in Clondalkin is “scandalous”.

Station Grove in the town is a small private development that was built in 2006 number of years ago and has since remained vacant.

Sinn Féin councillor and mayor of the county Mark Ward says that having six built homes empty at a time when 8,000 people are on South Dublin’s housing list is not good enough.

“I get calls every week from desperate families about houses that are vacant and boarded up. Some of these have valid reasons but a lot of them do not”

“There are six houses vacant on Station Grove in Clondalkin since they were built in 2006. That is 12 years plus without any families occupying them. This is scandalous in the current climate. I have reports that an approved housing body were pursuing to purchase these houses but the developer did not progress.”

That was confirmed by South Dublin County Council in a response to Ward. The council said that the sale of the homes did not go through.

Ward says the homes were being investigated under the Vacant Homes Strategy, but says the outcome of that investigation is unknown. He added legislation is needed.

“The governments need to bring in legislation that will prohibit property developers to idly sit on properties like these.”

Census 2016 identified 80,000 vacant homes across the country, however, Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy said many of these may have been empty due to a house being in the process of being sold or let, adding the figure could be closer to 25,000. CSO figures this year put that closer to 1,000.

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    Mute Seán Ó Briain
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    Jun 26th 2022, 6:05 PM

    Don’t cut their pay, completely remove the DUP’s pay. Let’s see how long they want to sit on the sidelines when they are flat broke. They can have sectarianism or a salary, they can’t have both.

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    Mute Gerard McConnell
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    Jun 26th 2022, 6:53 PM

    @Seán Ó Briain: Rumours are rife that the DUP said yes for the first time since the Old Testament, they say God and country are important but cash is king.

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    Mute Joe Johnson
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    Jun 26th 2022, 8:01 PM

    @Seán Ó Briain: And make Brandon Lewis redundant too.

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    Mute Stephen O'Neill
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    Jun 26th 2022, 8:15 PM

    @Seán Ó Briain: their pals in the UVF could spot them a few quid from their drug money. Removing the protocol would be a giant carrot for them.

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    Mute ÓDuibhír Abú
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    Jun 26th 2022, 8:30 PM

    @Gerard McConnell: Always said: Loyal to the Half Crown.

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    Jun 26th 2022, 6:12 PM

    Why ‘soon’? Why not now?!

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    Jun 26th 2022, 6:42 PM

    I heard that interview where Brandon Lewis said that Jews were being prevented from practicing their faith. What kind of interviewer let’s him get away without explaining that.
    We are allowing politicians and media influencers of all shades to make daft claims without being called to account.

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    Jun 26th 2022, 6:59 PM

    @Pat Duggan: and orange one

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    Jun 26th 2022, 8:09 PM

    @Stephen Walshe: This is just one example of the influence being wielded by probably less than 20% of the population. People with media influence capability are being allowed to convert the other 80% who do not use their critical powers to test the accuracy of what it being promoted. It used to be called propaganda.

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    Mute Niall Power
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    Jun 26th 2022, 6:16 PM

    Why is the Journal repeating the lie that the protocol is preventing the jewish community from practicing their faith? This has been proven to be untrue!

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    Mute sean o'dhubhghaill
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    Jun 26th 2022, 6:21 PM

    @Niall Power: Never heard that! What is meant to be the reason?

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    Mute Sean D
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    Jun 26th 2022, 6:21 PM

    @Niall Power: Had a few have you?

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    Jun 26th 2022, 6:27 PM

    @Niall Power: — They’re only quoting Brandon Lewis’s lies above, but they should actually point out that he’s blatantly lying through his teeth, which seems to be on a par with most of the Tories in high office. They all spout real howlers, like Suella Braverman, who announced that NI is way behind the rest of the UK in the trade and economy area, which is the complete opposite of what the situation really is. The problem is that a lot of people believe the nonsense they come out with.

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    Jun 26th 2022, 6:29 PM

    @Sean D: a few Jews??..

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    Jun 26th 2022, 6:32 PM

    @Sean D: I don’t drink!

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    Jun 26th 2022, 6:33 PM

    @sean o’dhubhghaill: lack of access to kosher foodstuffs.

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    Mute Lina Stein
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    Jun 26th 2022, 6:35 PM

    @sean o’dhubhghaill: Most of the Kosher goods came from the UK however, the shops and community have since found EU suppliers to deliver.

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    Jun 26th 2022, 6:54 PM

    @sean o’dhubhghaill: there is a community of 75 Orthodox Jews who are facing DELAYS on kosher foods from uk. Yet there is an orthodox Jewish community in Dublin who are not having issues sourcing produce from uk. Hardly an insurmountable issue.

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    Mute Stephen O'Neill
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    Jun 26th 2022, 8:23 PM

    @Niall Power: sure look it, anyone who has an IQ in double figures know that anything coming out of a Tory/DUP is likely to be BS

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    Jun 26th 2022, 7:15 PM

    Haha the DUP will prove they are far more loyal to the half crown …then the crown

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    Jun 26th 2022, 8:26 PM

    @David cotter: all parties up there take the queens shillings. Cash is king for them all

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    Jun 26th 2022, 8:11 PM

    The DUP won’t play “in protest over the implementation of the Northern Ireland Protocol”. Also because they lost the election to the Taigs.

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    Jun 26th 2022, 7:29 PM

    Proper bloody order! About time too. We’ll done Brandon Lewis.

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