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

Certainly. I will do my level best. We have continued to support home ownership through the help-to-buy grant. Nearly 40,000 households have been supported. When someone comes into his constituency office, does the Deputy or his colleagues advise them of the help-to-buy grant? Does he tell them they should not get the tax they have paid back in their pocket to help them with their deposit? Sinn Féin have been on record as saying that it will scrap that support that has helped 40,000 households to purchase their own homes. Furthermore, when the Government brings forward a scheme that is working right now to bridge the gap between the finance someone has and the finance they need as a household to buy their own homes, many of whom are renters, the first home scheme is not, as Deputy Ó Broin predicted a second mortgage. It is nothing like it and he knows that. It is an equity stake that almost 5,000 customers have registered-----

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