Paul McAuliffe (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I referenced cost rental. The Minister was in my constituency. On that occasion we visited different sites in Finglas and Ballymun. I know of 25 publicly-owned sites that have public projects on them, either a small infill or right up to larger sites. While all of them include things like senior citizens, for example, there is affordable purchase by Ó Cualann and Dublin City Council, and there is social housing but I have yet to see a cost-rental scheme in my constituency. I fear there is a perception that cost rental is not needed in certain parts of the city. It is important that the people who are above the eligibility criteria for social housing have access to a tool to be able to rent public housing long term exactly like somebody who is below the arbitrary threshold. I believe that cost rental is really important and we need to push the ambition of councils, and AHBs, to deliver them in every part of Dublin city, not just in those areas where they believe rents are high or people have a better income or whatever. My view is that places like Ballymun and Finglas deserve cost rentals as much as anywhere else.