Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 21 September 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Cost Rental Tenant In Situ Scheme: Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
I thank Deputy Flaherty. I would make two points. As we are building up our housing stock - there is a desire for people to purchase social homes as well - we need to catch up and get our stock levels back up. There was a sale of properties in this jurisdiction and other jurisdictions, diminishing the housing stock. Any Part V social homes cannot be purchases. Other homes can be. I have not expanded the tenant purchase scheme yet.
There is no preclusion with these. You convert your tenancy to a social housing tenancy with these ones. There is no preclusion in that regarding the future of potentially-----
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