Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The local authority is the entity which best understands what the needs of the people on the housing list are and what type of home they need to move into.

They have great flexibility. They have flexibility within the current policy and flexibility within the changes to be able to work with those families to get the best home. We are talking about those people who are refusing accommodation for spurious reasons - that is who we are trying to target here.

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