Cork County Council has made changes to how the housing funding is managed and used in the city to ensure the use of available funding is maximised.

Fine Gael TD for Cork South Central, Jerry Buttimer, recently met with the Chief Executive of Cork City Council and members of the management team in the Housing Department, over concerns that not all of the available funding has been use.

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He said: "I have been assured that changes have been made in how housing funding is managed and used in the city. These welcome changes will ensure that the available funding will be used to the fullest possible extent, to help the people of Cork.

"Issues remain about how money is allocated by the Department and I will bring these concerns back to the Ministers and ask that greater flexibility is given to the housing department.

"I'm very happy to say that the management team have informed me that this year alone the City council will put more than 300 empty housing units back into use."

(CD/LM)