Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions
Dail Éireann — 2023-10-26
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Micheál Martin (FF), Cork South-Central

The important point is we have produced the most comprehensive plan and we are implementing it. Deputy Doherty has not. I will make the point to him that 400 first-time buyers each week are now buying their first home. Listening to the Deputy, one would imagine that nobody was. Some 25,000 first-time buyers drew down mortgages in 2022. That is the highest number since 2008, and over 41,000 homes were purchased between January and August of this year, with 27% of those by first-time buyers. We have developed schemes that are helping first-time buyers, and respectfully-----

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Sitting date: 2023-10-26