Michael Moynihan (Cork North West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The policy of new beginnings and all of that has been well documented. It has been in place for a decade or more. There are huge challenges, however, for approved housing bodies, which are sometimes the service providers. When they look for accommodation or money for accommodation, there are challenges along the way, including HIQA reports, and all the other documentation the statutory bodies have to do. It is not as simple as the policy dictates. It is important recognition is taken of that.

The other matter is the limitations of the grants. A number of members raised the issue of the level of funding seriously needing to be looked at in terms of budgets going forward. To address Deputy Ellis's point on a local authority house that needs adaptation for the tenant in it, when somebody comes to us with information and we find out it relates to a local authority house, we gasp because it is more difficult. The Minister of State said that the local authority should apply to the Department for funding-----