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

I am raising the important issue of the tenant purchase scheme. After it was introduced, we were delighted that it was there, but it is not fit for purpose, especially for those who are retired, unemployed, or on disability payments. Some 80% of tenants in the country are debarred from the scheme. It is crazy, inoperable and it does not help the people who we would want to be able to purchase their homes.

They have been in these houses for many years and want to purchase them, but they are debarred from doing so because of the rules and the restrictive nature of the scheme. I thank the Taoiseach for introducing it, but will he, please, alter it to make it more usable for tenants in local authority houses?

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