Tenant Purchase Scheme
Dail Éireann — 2020-10-06
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Éamon Ó Cuív (FF), Galway West

The Minister of State did not tell me when the review was completed. A review was completed. The Minister of State did not give me the definition of the magic word in the English language, "soon". I would like a definition of what he calls "soon" because I have heard the word for three years. I do not know if that is because it rhymes with zoom, but we need to get zoom into this soon.
He seemed to imply that I or anybody else thought any person other than a tenant or joint tenant could buy a house.
Is the Minister of State saying there should be restrictions on the ability of joint tenants or tenants to buy a local authority house? Nobody is proposing to widen the eligibility criteria applying to those who can buy those houses, certainly not me.
Can the Minister of State explain why the Department believes maintaining and insuring the house creates unaffordability given that in many cases involving people with part-time jobs, the repayment would be less than the rent?

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Sitting date: 2020-10-06