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

It is. The water charges issue was in the programme for Government. It is a very serious point.

Through the tenant purchase scheme the Government is barring more than 80% of the people who live in local authority houses from purchasing those houses because of the statement that they have to be at work. In other words, they cannot be in receipt of an old age pension or a disability payment. That tenant purchase scheme is not fit for purpose and it has to be changed.

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