Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 8 November 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed)

Ms Caroline Curley:

As regards the social housing list, it is not that a person spends time on the list and then gets a house. There is an allocation policy and there is also community sustainment and the need to have a mix in there. A number of factors are taken into account and it is not always the people who are longest on the list; it depends on the actual need and what has already gone in. As I said, we try to have a mix of people.