Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 17 April 2024
Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed)
Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
I had done it and was doing it and it has worked really well. We are continuing it right the way through the course of this year. Loads of Deputies, including Deputy Boyd Barrett - I am not breaking his confidence - raise certain matters that will come up and we look at them. The local authorities are under no illusion that this scheme will continue this year, and we want it to continue. It is a good scheme. We purchased more than 1,800 homes last year. We ended insecure tenancies there, saved on the HAP payments and converted them to social housing tenancies. I think it is different from this, and I say that because this relates effectively to Part V, which now will be Part VII, provisions in new housing developments. That is not like buying-----
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