Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal West, Sinn Fein)

It is something that the organisations involved in domestic and providing supports have raised. We are talking about small numbers. I get that every big case is made up of many small numbers. We are talking about people who have letters from An Garda Síochána. I know a woman who is in a situation where she about be offered a house in an area where she cannot go, but she will. It is something that would be worth having a look at.

On HAP, I welcome the fact that the witnesses have said - and we should all say - that people who are on HAP pay a differential rent. There is no such thing as a free house, not if they are on HAP or the local authorities. Everybody pays rent. It is important that we should say across the board. Do the witnesses think there is a case to be made for standardising how HAP is treated by each local authority? Are we looking at differences? Should we facilitate the local authorities doing what they do now? This is effectively to order their own business themselves. Should there be some standards? In Mr. Deering's experience, are there geographic reasons why these anomalies and inconsistencies have arisen? How did it happen? How can we fix it?