Mr. Coil?n O'Reilly:

I understand the issue. The Senator correctly pointed out that there was a significant number of Dublin City Council HAP tenancies in Fingal and south Dublin. Those local authorities taking on thousands of Dublin City Council housing list tenants raises a question of fairness.

We would always engage on a case-by-case and cross-border basis. For example, we would have a conversation about the matter with Kildare County Council and see if there was a way to make it work. The want and will of all local authority staff is to do everything we can to keep people in their current properties and not see them going to the DRHE or Kildare County Council because they are homeless.