Council house lies empty for over five years with 800 on waiting list

A COUNCIL house has been unoccupied in County Cork for more than five years — despite a huge number of people being on the waiting list for local authority homes.

To put it in context, it took Turkish workers just three years to build the Ballincollig bypass, but the house at 30 Fairfield Terrace, Clonakilty, has been awaiting completion of repairs since September, 2001.

There are 27 houses in the council’s West Cork Division unoccupied, while there are currently around 800 people on the council’s waiting list in that region.