Dessie Ellis (Dublin North West, Sinn Fein)

I would much prefer the Minister to look at delivering social housing for the communities and to target these places where significant resources are being expended through rental subsidies to private landlords. We need to target the people who are in these places and allow the local authorities the opportunity to buy these premises or to have them available from NAMA or otherwise. For example, a local authority could put a deposit on a number of houses and repay over a period of time. At least, these properties could be bought and put back into the system-----

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