Martin Kenny (Sligo-Leitrim, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

On the issue of town and village renewal, there was a scheme for people who had a derelict house in a town and they could get €40,000 from the council to do it up. They had to rent the houses back to the local authority. The Minister of that Department at the time, Deputy Humphreys, had a scheme like that. It did not work because nobody took it up.