Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

Did Mr. McCarthy say the status of approved housing body would be taken away from them? Is that what he is talking about or is he talking about merging them? I appreciate a lot of these are very small. There are a good few of them in Kildare. There might have been a dozen houses or half a dozen houses and it was just one body and there was a name on it. Some of them worked well and some did not. Very often they rely on volunteers which can be very patchy. I appreciate why there are the number there are. At the end of the mortgage period, which has been funded from the public purse, there is still a house there and that house will turn over at some point. They are not going to be sold. The houses will always be owned by the approved housing body so if the Department ceases to recognise an approved housing body, what happens to the houses?