Pádraig O'Sullivan (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The scheme is a very good one. I said that and welcomed it when it was initiated a few years ago. It is good to see that those targets are not ceilings, which the Minister has reiterated on the floor of the Dáil on numerous occasions. For a while, there was resistance in certain local authorities regarding targets. It is good to see that both Cork city and county have breached those targets, as indicated by the figures the Minister gave. They are obviously not taking them as limits. I ask the Minister to continue to encourage all local authorities throughout the country to treat those targets as minimum rather than maximum targets.

I will raise one issue. When we are doing our constituency clinics, we probably do not hear about the applications that sail through and are very straightforward. However, there are difficulties from time to time for people. I know of one case that has gone on for nearly 18 months. I have no doubt that is an outlier, but does the Minister have any information on the average turnaround time nationwide to deal with the tenant in-situ scheme?

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