Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I apologise if I did not catch everything. The Deputies spoke much more quickly than I can write, but I will try to cover as many questions as I managed to jot down.

In respect of Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan's question about the tenant in situ scheme, that is a scheme the Government supports and I know the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage supports it very strongly. We are providing funding to local authorities for it and we need to push it and promote it more. One thing we are considering is an amendment to the Housing Act to put a positive duty on local authorities to assist people who may fall into homelessness because homelessness prevention is probably the most effective, nevermind cost effective, way of reducing the number of people who are homeless. If we put a positive duty on local authorities in that regard, we might see fewer people falling into homelessness and more properties being bought up by local authorities or approved housing bodies, as the case may be.

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