Provisional figures show there are 3,618 people in the North Cork area in need of housing and councillors have expressed frustration at the delay in some housing projects coming on stream.

Cork county councillors want to use the country’s largest, but unused, landfill site to dispose of Japanese knotweed, and say the move might make it cheaper to build new homes.

Development will stagnate while proposed city boundary extension is implemented, says O’Flynn.

Education, childcare, and the social needs of families would be taken into account by judges in repossession cases under a new bill.

An NCT-type certification for housing should be introduced to tackle substandard rental accommodation.

A local authority has been told to get tough on contractors who delay the refit of vacant county council houses.

Local authorities in areas affected by flooding are being urged to apply for the Office of Public Works' flood relief scheme.

Local authorities are facing multi-million funding shortfalls following confirmation that there will be no Government compensation this year following a rates review.

People with disabilities living in local authority housing and in need of a housing adaptation grant feel they are being discriminated as some local authorities have access officers while others don’t, with funds key to the matter, says Noel Baker.

At least one large local authority is not adhering to the law by providing an access or disability officer, amid calls for greater clarity on the use of the role for people struggling with housing and other issues.

Seven retiring local authority chiefs executive last year enjoyed a pensions bonanza walking away with a combined pension lump sum of €1.8m.