Michael Finneran (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fianna Fail)

The housing authority is the body with overall responsibility for the delivery of the housing programme, specifically with regard to assessments and allocations. The authority will undertake the assessment of need in accordance with the new arrangements to be set out in regulations. It seems appropriate that it would have full responsibility for making an allocation scheme for determining the order of priority for allocation of dwellings. An allocation scheme will be a public document. The amendment was considered and rejected by the select committee and I do not propose to accept it now.

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