Willie O'Dea (Limerick City, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

There is a commitment in the programme for Government to develop a new help-to-buy scheme to assist first-time house purchasers. Does the Taoiseach agree with me that this scheme is not working particularly well? In my experience, it takes up to six months to get a decision on whether one can get a loan to purchase a house. There are more refusals than acceptances. Does the Government recognise the problems in the scheme? Does it intend to refine it to ensure it will achieve the purpose for which it was designed, namely to enable first-time house purchasers to get on the housing ladder?

When is the Government going to meet its commitment to overhaul the tenant purchase scheme for local authority tenants?

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