Cork City Council only bought three tenant-in-situ homes

Measure to alleviate the lifting of the eviction ban has only been used three times by the country's largest local authority

Just three houses have been bought by Cork City Council under the tenant-in-situ scheme, according to a council briefing prepared ahead of the lifting of the eviction ban.

The briefing, created for a special council meeting on housing, shows that 135 contacts have been received from landlords or tenants in relation to the scheme since June 2022, yet just three properties have been purchased while another 25 are “progressing to acquisition”.