Mark Ward (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

This is probably where some of the confusion arises. I got in touch with my local authority, which said it is waiting for the Garda to get back to it about the vetting so tin order that a particular housing applicant can access a home. I have no reason whatsoever to criticise the Garda vetting process, which needs to be robust, especially when it comes to children and vulnerable adults. When it is left to individual superintendents to carry out this process or whatever it is called, this is causing delays for social applicants moving into their homes. It is having additional consequences. If social housing applicants have got a forever home with their local authority, they have to give a notice to quit to their own landlord to move out. What happens is that the Garda vetting does not come back, the landlord may ask them to leave and then that family may have to enter into homelessness. Is there a more efficient way to get this process done in a timelier manner that is good for everybody?

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