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

No one is massaging figures at all. Let me give exact figures as I regularly do. Take the affordable housing fund. We have approved 4,300 affordable purchase homes through that fund across 21 local authorities, involving over €370 million in grant aid. I will give just three examples. Cois Farraige in Blackrock, County Louth, where there are three-bedroom homes from €305,000. In Baltinglass, County Wicklow, which I had the pleasure of visiting, its really good multi-tenure scheme has three-bedroom homes from €260,000. Cluain Ard, Cobh, County Cork has two- and three-bedroom homes from €215,000. People are buying these homes now. It is happening. The first home shared equity is a really important support. There have been over 8,300 registrations for that scheme. Even though the Deputy continually rails against it, the public is engaging with it. People who are renting or living with their folks are now able to buy their home with direct assistance from the State, including using things like the help-to-buy grant, €30,000 of their own tax back in their pocket, which Sinn Féin has said it will abolish.

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