Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Can a period spent in the private rental sector be used by local authorities when determining eligibility for a loan? If a person is able to rent in the private sector on his or her own account without subsidisation, he or she should be eligible for a local authority loan.

Regarding shared ownership loans, the rental part of the equity should become the subject of tenant purchase schemes in the same way as tenant purchase schemes have applied to the total value of a local authority house.