Michael Finneran (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fianna Fail)

This amendment is not appropriate to this provision. Subsection 7 empowers the Minister to make regulations to set out how an assessment of housing needs will be carried out on an individual household including the form of that assessment and the period within which the housing authority should carry out the assessment after receiving an application. Paragraph (d) of this subsection already provides that the Minister, through regulation, can set out how often an assessment of the circumstances of particular households should be reviewed or updated. It is the intention to move more timely reports on needs than the current tri-annual assessments. Amendment No. 44 is related. In those circumstances I ask that the Senator withdraw the amendments.