Danny Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I have a question for the Minister as well. He seems to be doing a lot of work in cost rental and affordable homes for tenants. It does not seem to be manifesting itself in Kerry. The question I have to ask the Minister is about tenant purchase schemes, people who wish to purchase their own local authority house. They cannot purchase it if the house was built after 2015. That is what is happening in Kerry. The other thing we are looking for is that first-time buyers qualify for the first-time buyer's grant for a second-hand house that has been lived in before. It does not make sense to be denying people the chance to purchase a local authority house while trying to help people with this affordable scheme to buy a house. We cannot understand it. I am asking the Minister to make sense of it for me, please.

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