It is taking over a year for Cork City and County Councils to turn around vacant homes for new tenants.
A new report by the Local Government Audit service, based on details from 31 city and county councils has revealed that the average turnaround time to get properties re-occupied was 46 weeks.
There were almost 5,000 vacant social housing units across the country just before the outbreak of the pandemic.
The Irish Examiner reports Cork City took 63 weeks on average to turnaround properties, and Cork County took 53 weeks.
City Council claimed that 101 of its vacant properties - 23% of the total - were ready to be occupied with tenants,
but over half of these had been awaiting tenancy for over 14 months.
While the County Council said 92 of its vacant properties - 42% of the total - were either ready to let or under offer.
