Jennifer Murnane O'Connor (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

To clarify, the Department has brought forward the new tenant purchase scheme under which local authority tenants can purchase their home. A lot of people have come to tell me that they are going to the banks but that they are not getting the money from them. Because the new scheme has been brought forward recently after years without it, the Department needs to put a system in place because the local authority tenant who has been offered a house needs help to buy it. As he or she is in a position to pay for it, it is the scheme that is wrong. Will the Department look at these issues because they will come up more in the next year? I believe it will start this year, but it will be a bigger issue next year.