Local authorities could get more derelict sites staff following tragic Mallow case 

The house at Beecher Street, Mallow, Co Cork, where the body of Tim O'Sullivan was found. Picture: Larry Cummins

More staff could be assigned to help local authorities tackle dereliction pending a full review of the state’s derelict sites laws.

The news follows calls for a radical review of the entire system from the family of a man whose skeletal remains lays undiscovered for 22 years in a derelict and boarded-up house in Cork.