Ruth Coppinger (Dublin West, Anti-Austerity Alliance)
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I raise another matter on which Mr. Brady may wish to comment. I live in a mixed-tenure estate. I do not know if other people do. There were 200 private, 400 affordable mortgage and 100 for local authority tenants. It works very well. I favour affordable mortgages because people have an issue with wanting to buy their houses. I think Mr. Brady or whoever is in Fingal now would back me up on this. Most of the people who have bought the affordable mortgages have sold those houses and now they are privately rented. There are hardly any of us original residents now. We should consider introducing a rule that if people with an affordable mortgage want to sell they must sell it back to the local authority or something. What is happening is that they are just selling it on. The private rented sector is a bigger problem than local authority tenants.

I have a question for the representative of Fingal County Council, which might be taken later.