Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I understand that and we will not dwell on the point. When the list is available the Department knows the number of applications and knows that so many houses have been allocated or that approved housing bodies have taken people off the list. There will be people on the list who, as time passes, will no longer be interested. I understand that. We are not asking the Department to go back over every application but if it had an automated system, it could collect the basic information and then, on a less regular basis, hound the local authorities to verify the list and so on.