Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 23 April 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
General Scheme of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion
11:00 am
Mr. Mike Allen:
I think it is true to say they have some form of criteria. As the Chair noted earlier, it is not exactly the same in every country. The European Union rule is that a member state cannot treat other European Union citizens in a different way from its own citizens. Every one of them has different criteria but any reasonable system will include some notion that a person is legally resident in the country and it is a place with which he or she has some connection.