Damien English (Meath West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Deputy for outlining our work in the past few years. I clarify again that the tenant purchase scheme is open, working and successful. It is a favourable scheme and quite a few people have managed to avail of it in order to buy their homes in recent years. It is not as if the scheme is closed. We are talking about making changes to it and we debated different possible solutions, both inside and outside the House. The Department has gone through the review and has done much work on it over the last few months. We have been going through all of the recommendations, as well as the science behind the original decision made in 2016. As already stated, that will be brought forward by the Minister in the weeks and months ahead as part of a package of reforms on social protection. We will tease through all of the recommendations and suggestions for changes at the appropriate time. That is where matters stand.

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