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

-----in this case. It makes sense to me that if people move county, or move back to their home county they are originally from, they should be able to carry the years they waited with them. However, there are safeguards we want to put in place. The Deputy will appreciate that people who have been on the housing list for a very long time - five, six, seven, eight or ten years - in Swords or Blanchardstown might not respond so well to people coming from other parts of the country and pushing them down the list. I am sure there is a way to sort it out.

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