Mr. Michael Layde:

It cannot be compared to that in the sense that what determines the availability of property ultimately is the ownership of that property. Clearly, if a property is owned by a local authority, it is owned for a specific purpose. In terms of private rental accommodation, the rules and legal provisions governing tenancies apply but it is the case that properties can cease to be available. That already happens in regard to people who are in properties and are receiving rent supplement and those who are in properties under the rental accommodation scheme, and it certainly will happen in instances-----