Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

As I am not familiar with all of the details of the scheme, I will ask the Minister, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, to correspond with the Deputies directly. One thing we always have to bear in mind when it comes to the matter of tenant purchase is that in the past we sold off much of the social housing stock and that we are in the process of building up the stock of public or social housing again. We need to have regard to this when it comes to the matter of tenant purchase in order that we do not end up in a situation where tenants purchase what used to be public houses and then sell them on to somebody else and the net effect will be a reduction in the social housing stock. This is something we must bear in mind from a public policy point of view.

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