Departmental Priorities Dail Éireann — 2023-03-07 ============================================================ Leo Varadkar (FG), Dublin West One of the things I hope is that we will lessen the need for people to go into emergency accommodation by authorising local authorities to purchase the homes they are living in. If a landlord is selling up, if the tenant is a HAP or RAS tenant, the local authorities have the finance and are being encouraged to purchase those properties. The person will move from HAP to being a social housing tenant, which is something I think we all favour. They will not need to go----- --- Source: Houses of the Oireachtas. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The Official Report is revised after first publication; the fetch timestamp below identifies the version quoted. Record URI: https://data.oireachtas.ie/akn/ie/debateRecord/dail/2023-03-07/debate/main Retrieved: 2026-08-14T04:51:40+00:00 Sitting date: 2023-03-07