Imelda Munster (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme falls under the programme for Government. A response I received from Louth County Council about a loan states:

The loan has been approved at credit committee but Louth County Council are awaiting funding and [the applicant] will be contacted when funding is released by central government. We are not in a position to release funds at the moment as we have not received our allocation.

There are at least 17 other applicants left in that same limbo in County Louth alone. One of those applicants has been served with a notice to quit from their landlord and is facing into homelessness next month. If the Government continues to withhold the funding for these home loan schemes, it will force some people into homelessness. If the interest rate changes, those home loan contracts will have to be redrawn, causing further delay. The Taoiseach and Minister should forget the announcements, spin and PR stunts.

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