An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business
Dail Éireann — 2023-03-21
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Leo Varadkar (FG), Dublin West

Okay. We are going to have a debate on this today, as I understand it, and a vote on it tomorrow.
We have instructed local authorities to provide additional emergency accommodation, if it is needed, and we have been very clear with them that the tenant in situ scheme should be used. The resources are there to purchase 1,500 homes so if somebody is a social housing tenant, the house can be bought by the council or an approved housing body and the tenant can move from being a HAP or RAS tenant to being a proper social housing tenant. That is actually a positive thing, in my view. When it comes to people who are above the income limits, we can use the cost-rental mechanism.

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