Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Page 23 of the programme for Government commits to a new model of affordable rental to be delivered within the first 100 days of Government. In fact, the detail of the cost rental model was to be rolled out in quarter 3 of 2016. Unfortunately, we have yet to see it. With tens of thousands of individuals and families who are ineligible for social housing increasingly locked out of the private rental and home purchase markets, when will the model of affordable rental be introduced? Will legislation be enacted to ensure that local authorities can run such schemes?

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