John Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It is good to see the Minister, Deputy O'Brien, here this morning and firing on all cylinders. As a brief aside, 95 homes have been purchased by South Dublin County Council under the tenant in situscheme, with 133 planned, and I know the Minister would probably like to comment on that. I thank the Ceann Comhairle for allowing me away with this.

The previous Government launched the north inner city initiative and while not perfect, it has met with a lot of success. The Minister will have heard me at parliamentary party level over the years looking for a similar initiative for areas that have similar challenges. The term that is now being used is intergenerational trauma. I wonder what plans has the Government to really seriously look at replicating that initiative in areas like those in my own constituency, such as parts of west Tallaght, Killinarden and Jobstown. There are also other areas like Darndale, Ballymun etc. Is the Minister in a position to make a comment on that?

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