Dáil debates

Tuesday, 28 March 2023

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions

 

2:05 pm

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

Second, Sinn Féin's Bill would make it illegal for people to move back into an apartment or a house that their parents bought for them when they go to college. A lot of people - I met somebody in Waterford only a few months ago - bought an apartment in Cork with the express reason of buying it so that their son or daughter could move in there when he or she went to college. Sinn Féin would make that impossible. They would have to commute from Waterford or try and find alternative accommodation. Third, there are people who may need to sell the house that they have - it may even be their only house or apartment - for a good reason. They might be pregnant, for example, expecting a child, trying to raise a deposit to buy their own home. They might have bills. They might face an illness, for example, and they need to be able to pay those bills. Deputy Ó Broin's Bill prevents all of those people doing those things and that is why we think it is not a solution to the problem.

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