Malcolm Noonan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

There are specific questions here particularly in regard to that timeframe. That is a valid question to ask and certainly we can ask the Department to look at that. In regard to the second question, I cannot give the answer to it here, so again I will ask the Department to look at that, about challenging those decisions, if that is okay.

Fingal County Council has been quite progressive. In quarter 1 this year it already acquired 25 properties where tenants received a notice of termination. Fingal County Council has been very progressive in delivering on the tenant in situ scheme but as I said, if there are specific cases that may need a bit of help, the local authority obviously has the delegated function to do this and appears to be delivering it successfully. However, if there are specific cases where there are logjams or issues affecting the transfer or the sale of the house, in particular the issues mentioned by the Deputy in relation to the local authority asking the tenant to seek a HAP tenancy, if there are none, they really are in an awful bind. I appreciate that. Certainly, we will take these issues back to the Department and revert to the Deputy.

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