Eamon Scanlon (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

This is not just about Laois and Offaly. It affects Sligo, Leitrim, Roscommon, Donegal and everywhere else. I have a number of cases involving young families with children who pay more in rent than they would if they had a local authority mortgage. They have been refused and appealed and refused again. It is wrong. They cannot go on the council housing list because their incomes are slightly over the limit. Something drastic must be done.

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