Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We are going to try to get towards 12,000 additional social homes. That will make a difference.

The second thing we are going to do is to ramp up cost rental. It is a new form of tenancy and public housing, developed by the previous Government and being implemented by this one. That will help people who are above the income limits for social housing. We are going to buy up more rental properties where the tenant is a housing assistance payment, HAP, or rental accommodation scheme, RAS, tenant. That means if the landlord is selling up we are empowering and funding local authorities, all of which are not controlled by Government parties by the way, to purchase those properties, and they should.

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