Ms Mary Hayes:

I do not have exact answers to that. This is an estimation of what I believe does not go ahead. We will probably need to look at that more forensically to get a true picture. My sense, just from the team in Dublin City Council, is that there are good and positive reactions to it but, obviously, as we covered earlier, sometimes people will withdraw at valuation stage. Sometimes the tenant does not want to go ahead and sometimes the local authorities is in a position to make an offer, depending on where someone is at, in overall terms, on the housing list, and the tenant will prefer to move rather than stay in that property.

In April we saw 14 such offers coming in to the Dublin region for reasons of landlords sale and in all of those cases, the tenants in situscheme was explored.

There are cases which will fall through the gaps where either the tenant rejects staying, the landlord is not willing to go ahead, or it was too late in the process. I would see that I believe we will be able to even out the tenant in situ scheme, bed it down and get there faster. We have a much better chance of success when people are contacting us earlier. Again, I am limited to speaking knowledgeably only about Dublin City Council.