Ms Mary Mulholland:

It is important that the choice-based letting system is introduced with an ICT system. The technology has been piloted in the Cork and Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown areas. When the system is correct and read to roll out we will implement it on a full-time basis along with an ICT system. Recently we have manually operated the system on a case-by-case basis with a small scheme allocation. We found that it takes quite a lot of work to write to everyone in the area who has expressed a preference in the area where the scheme is and ask them to express an interest. Therefore, an ICT system is necessary and we need one in place before we can fully roll out the system.