Terence Flanagan (Dublin North East, Fine Gael)

While we welcome the Minister of State's flexibility and his work in this area, much more needs to be done to get value for taxpayers' money and to ensure we will have an equity stake - an asset - at the end of the day. We need to make sure this is not just rental money that is going into other people's pockets without a physical asset being made available. The priority should be to ensure there will be equity. Finally, can the Minister of State give us an update on the roll-out of the incremental purchase scheme under the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009?

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