Violet-Anne Wynne (Clare, Sinn Fein)
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230. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the local authorities that have an online choice based lettings system in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61405/22]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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More than half of local authorities currently operate a Choice Based Letting system. While several offer paper-based systems, others offer both paper-based and online services.

Currently, 14 local authorities use an online system including Clare, Cork City, Cork County, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, Fingal, South Dublin, Galway City, Galway County, Kildare, Leitirm, Louth, Meath, Tipperary and Waterford.

Local authorities are generally helpful in assisting applicants to apply for their services and anyone who has difficulty in accessing should contact their local authority.

Given the benefits offered by Choice Based Letting, my department continues to liaise with the local authorities to ensure it is implemented as widely as possible across the country and to explore the feasibility of a national online system.