Martin Brady (Fianna Fail)

On Senator Fitzgerald's point, I was speaking to a city council official this morning about social housing. One of the complaints of the city council is that offers of housing are refused. In the case in question, three offers of housing were made to an individual on three occasions and refused because the houses in question were not in the location desired by the individual. He or she wanted to be beside his or her relations. That is not acceptable anymore because there are thousands of houses unoccupied in Dublin city, in respect of which the owners would be prepared to charge but one quarter of what is being paid in rent supplement. This is a disgraceful set of circumstances. In the case in question, three good houses were offered within a period of approximately seven or eight months.