Mark Wall (Labour)
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I thank the Chair. I thank all our guests for coming in today.

I wish to be associated with the words about council staff on the front line. It is important that we always take the opportunity to thank staff in housing and homeless sections, as they do great work. Whenever I speak to them, they are forthcoming with information and return calls. It is important that I acknowledge that, as theirs is a difficult job at the moment.

I cannot remember which, but one of the presentations referred to a tenant moving from one local authority area to another, for example, to Kildare where I live. What is the position as regards the house being purchased? I encountered a sad case yesterday of a person who had received notice to quit. The person rang one of the Dublin local authorities, which stated that it could do nothing. I do not know how true that is, but that is what I was told yesterday. Will the witnesses comment on this issue? Is there cross-authority co-operation on purchases under the tenantin situscheme?