Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

In addition to those financial controls, with regard to the application of the scheme of letting through the allocation system, is there or has there been a direction from the Department to give guidance to local authorities on how the allocation scheme applies? We know that when the previous tenants in situ scheme was in place, Dublin City Council kind of applied roughly a five-year rule. My local authority applied an eight-year rule. Other local authorities did not apply a rule at all, and if it was to prevent somebody from homelessness, they would make an acquisition. Is the Department leaving that to individual local authorities to decide, or is there guidance on the interaction between the application for tenants in situ, and the ordinary allocation rules for social housing allocation?