Sir, – The Dormant Accounts Act was introduced to deal with the matter of dormant property (ie cash).
Might I suggest that a similar approach be made to what appears to be a massive amount of unoccupied (“dormant”) housing property?
Surely the constitutional property rights apply to both types of “property”, but was not any legal deterrent in dealing with the cash-type of property.
With a reported 200,000 or so unoccupied houses to choose from, it should be possible in principle to deal with the housing crisis very rapidly with a similar Act – at least to give time (say five years) to actually build the required social houses during the crisis – after which the “dormant” houses would revert for the use of their owners.
Has anyone a better suggestion? – Yours, etc,
RJ CLOUGHLEY,
Terenure,
Dublin 6W.