Ms Rosemary Hennigan:

To answer Deputy Collins and Senator Moynihan on the question of allocations in social housing and the social housing list, and what we said about geographic movement and all of that, the idea of a social housing passport has been mooted for quite a long time. This might better reflect the reality of people's lives. People do not organise their lives around being in a particular local authority area and not moving into another, even though somebody might be there who is part of their support network. A social housing passport might better reflect the reality of how people are living, especially because of the current housing scarcity where someone might need to move around and couch-surf between different family members or whatever else. It has been suggested as part of the programme for Government. As far as I am aware, it has not been progressed to date but it would be positive to look at it again, progress it, ask what the realities of it are and how it can be accomplished and see whether it would benefit, for example, the Traveller community. Again, I do not think a social housing passport would need legislative change but it is part of the programme for Government so it would be interesting to see if it might be progressed.