Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 18 April 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Ms Caroline Timmons:
It has not come forward strongly. It has not been put to me as a point that it is something that is going to happen. We have not seen actual evidence of it that has been put to the Department to date. There is an ability under the regulations, whereby if anybody has applied in the lottery for a particular development another tenant can be taken out of the lottery. That is considered and provided for in the regulations. If those people can go on to buy, we are happy to support them in that respect. That is appropriate in all respects. If it does come forward as being a particular issue, we would be happy to deal with it.
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