Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I thank Deputy McAuliffe for raising this very important matter many of us have raised for a number of years. The social housing passport is the solution to this issue. It has been promised for a decade. The then Minister, Deputy Kelly, had it in his Social Housing 2020 plan published in 2014, and his successor, Deputy Coveney, had it in his Rebuilding Ireland 2016. It is in the current Government's housing plan. I do not accept it is complicated. The Government has to decide what criteria should apply. Domestic violence is clearly one but there are a number of others, such as employment, education and medical needs. If the Minister were to bring forward such legislation, he would have the universal support of the House. The social housing passport is the answer. It has been a decade in the making. We will support the Minister if he introduces it, and we urge him to do that as soon as he can.

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