Marcella Corcoran Kennedy (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the delegations for attending the committee to help us in our consideration of this matter.

Do the local authorities see a value in the re-introduction of the shared ownership scheme which assisted people in the past in acquiring their own homes? The Fr. Peter McVerry Trust stated that homelessness doubled in the boom time when there was much building. Has it any means of accounting for how and why that happened? The Irish Council for Social Housing stated the nominations protocol which was agreed between the four Dublin local authorities is not fully implemented. Why is this the case and how can it be improved? Could the council also give us more detail about the use of the leasing model for small housing associations? What are the views of the delegations on rent controls?