Turn Around Time Of Council Housing Needs To Improve Says Rep

That's despite the local authority insisting it's one of the fastest in Ireland.

There are 48 empty council properties in Westmeath at the moment. 

The local authority is taking around 14 weeks to turn around a house between occupants - a figure it says is good by national comparison.  

A number of houses in Athlone and Mullingar have been kept aside as covid isolation units.  

The council is taking on a second contractor to prepare the homes for new owners.  

But Fianna Fáil’s Ken Glynn says the process needs to speed up:

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