Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 1 October 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht

Management and Operation of Housing Associations: Discussion

3:00 pm

Mr. Brian O'Gorman:

Yes. The only slight variation is the Safe-Home programme. It encompasses people who were born in Ireland, worked in the UK, for example, fell on hard times and returned to Ireland. They constitute some of our tenancies, particularly in our elderly schemes. Apart from them, tenants are 100% local authority approved. We do not make an allocation without a local authority approving it.