Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour) | Oireachtas source

To be clear, it was 2013 when the last analysis was carried out which means we are dealing with 2013 figures. There have been FOI requests and all of the figures have been put together. However, such analysis does not factor in a number of issues such as people being on multiple lists in Dublin so there is duplication. Also, people may have left the list since 2013. These are the only figures that we can stand over and a number of other factors must be taken into account. Sometimes a person's housing need does not correlate when compared with the reason he or she is on the list. We will ensure that the housing agency will compile figures on an annual basis from next year. The agency will contact the whole country and compile detailed analysis so that we can finally, once and for all, carry out yearly comparison analysis on the volume of people who really do require social housing assessing every local authority, their totals, certain demographics thus meeting all of requirements that we need. It took a year to put such a system in place.