Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Very briefly on that, the Minister is being rather short-sighted, and I am a little surprised. In urban areas, in big cities and towns, investors are beating local young people to purchasing second-hand houses. If the Minister is now going to provide a set of cash incentives, which he has more or less confirmed, to people buying second-hand homes, "doer-uppers", in rural areas, with which I do not have a problem - it sounds very good-----