Ms Mary Hayes:

In terms of social housing lettings, we are generally looking at the people with the longest amount of time on the list, irrespective of which local authority it is. The biggest difficulty in terms of exit in Dublin is large family size, and we would have quite vulnerable populations, such as Traveller populations and family reunification families. For example, this weekend, we had the presentation of a family of ten. That can be very hard to manage in terms of finding emergency accommodation and it is certainly very hard to find four-bedroom or five-bedroom accommodation to move to afterwards. They are both squeeze points. The Senators are both very familiar with the Dublin pinch points so they know there are areas where we do not have much three-bed accommodation, or we might have two-bedroom accommodation but not three-bedroom, or there are areas where accommodation just comes up less often than in other areas. I know the Senators are very aware of this.