Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)

Some local authorities have written to their elected members to tell them they have allocated - the phrase used is "exhausted" - all of their social housing acquisition funding for this year. Fingal County Council wrote to TDs and councillors last week. If a local authority has allocated and exhausted all the funding allocated for this year and goes to the Department seeking additional funding or access to CAS or SHIP for acquisitions between now and the end of the year, is there a mechanism whereby these requests can at least be considered so that cases that may emerge between now and December are not automatically refused because the funding allocated has been fully committed?