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

As I was saying, more than 1,300 were approved under the first home scheme, which many renters avail of and which Sinn Féin also opposed.

The help-to-buy scheme continues to assist thousands of homebuyers with their deposits, more than 37,000 so far. Again, Sinn Féin opposed that. Almost 1,300 applications to bring vacant properties back into use have been received. Sinn Féin also opposed the Croí Cónaithe grants of up to €50,000. Cost-rental is now a reality and 1,000 cost-rental homes have been approved for funding and in 2023, we have a target of more than 29,000 new homes, of which 9000 will be new-build social homes. The reality is - and again it is a statistic Sinn Féin does not like - that since the Government came into being, the number of people on social housing lists has dropped by 15%. We must also remember that despite the narrative presented this evening, new tenancies are thankfully also being started. The RTB statistics show that more than 19,000 new private tenancies-----

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