Jonathan O'Brien (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

If we are saying that a RAS property is up to standard on day 1, why do we have people coming into our constituency offices who have been in RAS properties for less than six, 12 or 18 months with complaints that the property is not up to standard? Issues include no heating and in some cases, no hot water. In some cases there are windows which cannot be opened. Tenants are actually exiting the scheme. They do not want to be RAS tenants any more but want to try to get back onto the local authority housing waiting list. That poses a problem because once a tenant accepts a RAS property, there are consequences for that. Do we know why people are exiting the scheme in such huge numbers? I am sure some of it is because they are transferring to the HAP or other schemes.