Michael Finneran (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fianna Fail)

This amendment is unnecessary. The principle upon which housing authority schemes are founded is allocation on the basis of need, as provided for by section 22 as a whole. Subsection (5) provides a mechanism whereby, within a general allocation on the basis of need, housing authorities may reserve a portion of dwellings within the stock to cater for particular groups with particular types of needs, including the homeless, Travellers and single-adult households.