Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We will not have the debate on the first home shared equity scheme today but it is equity that purchasers get and it is an extremely popular scheme that is working. As I said, more than 800 approvals have been made already to real households for real homes. That is good. We will break down that data when it is finalised. We will break it down between cost rental, affordable purchase through local authorities and Land Development Agency delivery as well. We are validating that data. We do not have the returns from every local authority area. I have given the Deputy the broad picture. We have a very good pipeline. The targets are without question challenging. They were challenging in 2022. The important thing is that we have proved the concept of cost rental in particular. We have hundreds of tenants in place already. When we have the data returns back in and fully collated and validated, we will certainly be publishing them in the detail requested by Deputy Ó Broin. It is important people see that and see the progress that has been made and where we need to fill further gaps as well. That will include such initiatives as Project Tosaigh. As the Deputy may know, we are looking at Project Tosaigh II returns right now, to which we have a good response.

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