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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, February 12, 2024

QUESTION NO. 12

QUESTION: Councillor M. Johansson

To ask the Chief Executive when updates will be made to the Choice Based Lettings system to allow applicants to see their position or the time on list of highest applicant, as was previously agreed by councillors and management?

REPLY:

Under General Data Protection Regulations all applicants for social housing are protected by the local authority in relation to how personal or personally identifiable information is presented. Releasing information in relation to the time on list of the highest applicant relating to a specific address could potentially provide access to another person's personal data and situation they were in at a particular time. Taking this into consideration, a report (which is attached to this reply) can be produced providing the following details:

• Date property advertised
• Location (not specific address)
• Area
• Property type
• Property size
• Number of Expression of Interests (EOIs)
• Year on list (max of year on list from the applications on EOIs)

Some further work and data cleansing with our external consultants is required to refine the reports. However, we envisage that they should be available on our website in the coming months.  

There will be two versions of the report available, the first showing the information as listed above and the second will provide an overview in the format of an infographic.