Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 20 June 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Irish Mortgage Market: Right2Homes

2:00 pm

Mr. Edmund Honohan:

As long as the family is in occupation of the premises, the first objective is achieved. With regard to what happens down the road with the entitlements of the next-of-kin and so on, there is a well-trodden pathway there of people becoming entitled to tenancies. One of the problems with public housing is that there is a deep-rooted entitlement to be considered the successor to the previous tenant. Nevertheless, the international experience of co-op structures is that they work. Where one has an industrial level of co-operatives, people do not get that personally attached to a particular house. The children will move off and get their own premises in due course.

Likewise internationally there is a-----

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