The Lord Mayor of Dublin has backed a call for a centralised application system to help young people acquire homes under the Affordable Housing Scheme.
Lord Mayor Cllr Catherine Byrne echoed a call made on Wednesday by John O'Connor, a board member of the Affordable Homes Partnership (AHP), who suggested a central application system for all Dublin local authorities could speed up the process.
She said the creation of a walk-in office and a web-based application system could help eliminate confusion by streamlining the applications system.
"At the moment we don't have a web-based central application system for all local authorities. This could be provided by the new Affordable Homes Partnership," said the Lord Mayor.
Chaired by former Siptu president Des Geraghty, the AHP is a new Government initiative to co-ordinate supply of houses.
Freeing up State-owned land for housing, co-ordinating infrastructure delivery and communicating with the public on affordable housing are among the AHP's mandates.