Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 21 March 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Tenant In Situ Process: Discussion
Mr. Coil?n O'Reilly:
In short, there is a different approach across different local authorities. The scheme gives different local authorities flexibility to engage with the scheme in whatever way they want, and every local authority is different, from the number of people on the social housing list, the geography of the county, the number of towns, the number of properties and all that. It all changes.
What I would say on behalf of the sector is that the last thing any local authority official wants to see is a family going into homelessness, and we work constantly to keep families out of homelessness and to keep them in properties, and to support that. We will be as flexible as we can. In the statement-----
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