Mairead Farrell (Galway West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I want to speak on amendment No. 16. The Minister knows well at this stage our issue with the help to buy scheme so our opposition to this will not come as any surprise to him. As the Minister is aware, the scheme was introduced as a temporary measure in 2016 with an estimated cost of €130 million over two and a half years.