Áine Collins (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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464. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will confirm that a person who has received notification from a building society that their mortgage is unsustainable and their home must be sold, that in the event of these circumstances arising that a person is entitled to apply for their council social housing list. [18939/14]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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For a household to qualify for social housing support a housing authority must carry out an assessment to establish whether the household is in need of housing and meets certain eligibility criteria, including income limits. As part of a concerted effort to deal with the issue of mortgage arrears, the Social Housing Assessment Regulations were amended in 2011 to provide that a household may be determined to be in need of housing if it has a mortgage that is deemed to be unsustainable under the Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process.