Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 25 April 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed)
Kieran O'Donnell (Limerick City, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
On the tenant purchase scheme, the traditional model is now called the incremental purchase scheme, I think. The Deputy made a fair point. Perhaps we can get the officials to look at it based on age. If there is a young person coming in, ten years might be more reasonable than someone coming in, say, in their 40s. It is something we will look at.
On affordable housing, that is coming up in terms of the mortgages. We will get the officials to look at that again. Both points the Deputy raised are reasonable and require further empirical work by the Department. We will follow up on that.
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