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

The new housing schemes for people to buy their own homes are non-existent; nobody is able to buy a house because there must be 50% income and somebody must be working. If I won money in the morning and applied to the local authority to buy out my house, I could not do so. Every barrier has been put in the way of local authorities. This must be examined. We are changing our culture and it is so unfair. I know a couple who sought to buy their house recently but they could not do so. They have been in a local authority house all their lives. I have never seen anything like it. There is no option and it is very rare for it to happen.