Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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I move amendment No. 28:

In page 57, line 36, to delete "subsection."," and substitute the following:

"subsection.

(c) In this subsection 'specified form of social housing support' means social housing support of a kind referred to in paragraph (a), (b) or (d) of section 19(2).",".

The amendment to section 46(2)(f) is necessary to insert a definition of "specified form of social housing support" in the proposed new section 20(5)(b) of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009. The proposed subsection refers to a specified form of social housing support, but neither that subsection nor any other provision in section 20 specifies a form of social housing support for the purposes of the enactment. The amendment specifies local authority and approved housing and dwellings, the subject of rental accommodation availability agreements, as forms of social housing support for the purposes of section 20(5)(b). The effect of this is that a household on a waiting list for housing that refuses two reasonable offers of these forms of social housing support in a prescribed period will be suspended from the list for a period to be prescribed.