Ruth Coppinger (Dublin West, Solidarity) | Oireachtas source

That is problematic. The council has agreed to develop 1,100 or 1,200 units on one site in Blanchardstown, at Damastown. Is that going to be divided up into eight housing bodies? That will be a nightmare. The representation issue is important because of tenants with pyrite who have not been able to get any communication from their housing body. I have raised this before but nothing has changed and I cannot get any communication from them either. There is a huge disadvantage for people on a council list who are put with a housing body, because they are then competing with a private company, although I am sure not all are like this. There has still been no report on the pyrite situation. For that reason, I am very cynical about handing over control to eight or ten housing bodies in a community. Tenants can go to the RTB so they are private tenants, while council tenants go to the council if they have issues with rent arrears. I am not sure if that is a huge selling point.