Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Most people who were lucky enough to get a house under Part V are probably part of a family and have other family members who have the right to stay in the house once an older person there is deceased. I therefore doubt if much of that housing stock is going back for recycling within the social housing system. It is important to have this debate and I agree with Deputy Martin Kenny that there are bigger issues surrounding this that need to be considered. In the short term, this particular measure does not make a huge difference. In that regard, I do not have any great problem with the Minister's amendment, because it is only putting it off for nine months.

There are bigger issues. I agree that getting permission for a tenant purchase loan can be quite difficult. One of the things that bothers me is that while people have great difficulty in getting loans from banks to purchase houses, there is also a local authority loan system that very few people seem to be able to access.

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