Patrick Nulty (Dublin West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

The Minister will be aware that at the end of the month the tenant purchase scheme for long-term local authority tenants for 2011 will expire and that the other alternative scheme, the 1995 scheme, will expire at the end of the year. When will the Government bring forward legislation to provide for a new tenant purchase scheme to give clarity to local authority tenants and local authorities as there is much concern about the issue at the moment?

Will the Minister raise with the Whips the possibility of a debate in the House on the housing crisis because approximately 100,000 families are on the housing waiting list? There seems to be a myopic approach to addressing the issue. We need a debate in the House on this national crisis.

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