Danny Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The present tenant purchase scheme is totally unworkable. I am sure the Taoiseach is aware that Kerry County Council wrote to the Department in 2015 stating that 80% of applicants would not qualify. Before the scheme was suspended four or five years before that, the local authority when it sold a house to the tenant then used that money directly to repair vacant houses and make them suitable for housing new tenants.

The councils do not have funding from the tenant purchase scheme available to them any more because the scheme is not working. Approximately 80% of applicants for the scheme do not qualify. What is the Government going to do about this very serious matter? I ask the Taoiseach to investigate the matter. Kerry County Council wrote to the Government about this issue more than 18 months ago.

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