Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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No, but the way the scheme has been designed is that the Housing Agency is to process it. The Housing Agency buys and then sells on to an AHB. This is the way in which the scheme was set up. The problem is the Housing Agency is finding it difficult to get AHBs to buy them. The Housing Agency, which does not do, and has never done, long-term tenancy management in sustainment, could end up holding on to these properties for far longer than the scheme intends. This is not a criticism of the scheme. It is an observation on how it is operating. There is a real reluctance among some AHBs to consider purchasing the properties.

To answer the principal question, the key measure the Bill provides for is that, unlike the current situation, all local authorities would have a requirement at a point in time to meet and put in place a homeless prevention plan for people at risk of homelessness.