66 vacant homes in Kerry have been logged by the public on a website set up to alert local authorities to unused properties.
The figures were released by the Minister for Housing, Darragh O'Brien, in response to a parliamentary question by Cork TD David Stanton.
Vacanthomes.ie was set on behalf of the local government sector to allow the public to anonymously log possible vacant properties.
It's part of a plan to identify the scale of vacant homes in a local authority area.
In answer to a parliamentary question, the Housing Minister Darragh O'Brien said 66 properties in Kerry have been registered on the website up to May 11th of this year.
Nationally 5,210 properties have been recorded on the website since 2017.
This week is also emerged that Kerry County Council had 163 vacant properties in its ownership at the end of the first quarter of this year.
45 of those properties have been vacant for more than two years.
Meanwhile, the Kerry Labour Party representative, Ben Slimm, has called on the Government to introduce a tax on vacant housing.
Mr Slimm said there needs to be a charge on all housing that's still unoccupied after six months to stop developers and speculators artificially inflating rents by holding back housing units.
He said such a tax would ensure homes are brought back into use as quickly as possible.
