Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

The unscrupulousness of property speculators in Dún Laoghaire seems to know no bounds. The latest ruse, which I would also ask the Minister to examine, sees property agents in the Cualanor and Honeypark developments, which were in NAMA before being sold to vulture funds and so on, using a very obscure calculation of people's income in order to rule out housing assistance payment, HAP, tenants. Even when the council has said that, in respect of two cases that I have received, the incomes of the HAP tenants, who are working, are sufficient to be able to rent these properties, the property agents are doing another obscure calculation in order to make an excuse for telling the tenants that they cannot rent the properties to them. The real reason is because they are in receipt of HAP. As a matter of urgency, will the Minister examine this issue as well?

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