Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I ask the witnesses to send the committee a note on this issue. As I said, these things get bandied about at public meetings of local authorities on a regular basis. It is in the interests of the AHBs for the committee to see the situation from their perspective too.

I wish to focus now on the last annual report of the ICSH. Reference is made to the mortgage to rent scheme in 2017 and a total of 87. That is a hopeless figure. I can imagine the amount of work, training and so on that has gone into that in the local authorities and in the approved housing bodies, as well as the paperwork involved but the outturn is only 87. That is abysmal. The setting up of this scheme probably involved as much work as the setting up of much bigger schemes but the return is very small. Why is that the case? Why are there so few mortgage to rent arrangements? Where is the blockage?