Housing Provision Dail Éireann — 2023-01-26 ============================================================ Darragh O'Brien (FF), Dublin Fingal -----later than they would like to, we have now provided avenues for them to get into home ownership. That is why 16,700 first-time buyers were able to buy their own homes in the past 12 months, many of them through the first home scheme, which had more than 800 approvals. Again, the Deputy's party opposed that scheme. Many of them used the help-to-buy grant that gives them €30,000 of their own tax back, which, again, the Deputy opposed. He cannot have it both ways. We will never turn this around----- --- 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/2023-01-26/debate/main Retrieved: 2026-08-27T06:54:43+00:00 Sitting date: 2023-01-26