Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Deputy. I am happy to take the example the Deputy has given me and to get the details from her later. I will raise it with the Minister because if there are issues that need to be changed to make it work better, we are happy to take views on board. There is no doubt about that. What I am saying to the Deputy, however, is that we continue to offer a suite of different supports in the housing sector. We believe they are working because, as I said at the outset, 32,000 housing units have commenced in the first five months of 2024. That is progress and it is about achieving what we want to do, which is producing more houses. As I said, the only way to address this is to increase the supply.

The Government comes at affordability through different issues such as the increase in supply and the help-to-buy and first home schemes. The tenant in situ scheme is something that does work. I know of people who had good tenants and they wanted to move the property along. The local authority bought it and the tenants were able to stay on in the property. That is important. People are in their houses and are allowed now to stay on as local authority tenants.

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