Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 21 February 2019

Public Accounts Committee

2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government

9:00 am

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

The allocations are made from the housing waiting list but there is a difference in how that happens. For example, typically, the local authority sends a list of names that can be selected from. Some organisations will do courses such as tenancy courses. One criticism of the sector is that there can be a degree of cherry-picking and that the local authority will perhaps not do the tenancy courses and end with people who have more difficulties, and that is a more difficult situation to manage. How would the witnesses respond to that?

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