20 families reject council housing offers three times

Hundreds of offers of local authority accommodation are being rejected for reasons including location and type of housing — with 20 people refusing three offers each last year in one council area.

Figures provided to the Irish Examiner by all four local authorities in Dublin, as well as Cork, Galway, and Limerick city councils, show the location of the property is often cited as reason for refusal, while 20 people in Dun Laoghaire/Rathdown refused offers of housing three times in 2012.

The largest number of refusals in 2012 was in Dublin City, where 1,138 of 1,398 housing offers were accepted in 2012, meaning 260 offers were not accepted.