Council takes two years to revamp vacant units

Cork City Council is taking nearly two years to renovate council houses, spending more than any other local authority on upgrading its housing stock.

Up to 571 rundown council houses were refurbished by Cork City Council in 2014 and 2015 as it took, on average, almost two years to renovate a house.

City Hall figures from the end of last year confirmed 93 weeks was the time involved to renovate council houses and, at the end of 2015, a total of 424 houses had remained vacant.