Mr. David Kelly:

In terms of the latest social housing list, there are 8,800 households on it from within EEA countries, and 5,600 from non-EEA countries. About 25% in total are from outside Ireland. Those people would have been assessed based on the current policy, so they have been assessed as being entitled to social housing. We only have data for the people on the list. We do not have data on the people who were assessed and not approved. It is a fairly substantial group. Some 25% of the overall list are non-Irish citizens. I think the total is about 58,000 or 59,000, with about 15,000 being non-EU.

In terms of the appeals, generally local authorities have an appeals mechanism where somebody is unhappy with the decision taken. We are a higher authority than the local authorities and people can take a case to the Ombudsman. We are looking at this, in particular when we get into habitual residence, in terms of whether we need a stronger appeals mechanism built in. That is something we will be looking at during the drafting.