Mark Wall (Kildare South, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I want to raise the recently announced figure of €325 million for the social housing second hand acquisitions programme. My county of Kildare received €15 million under that programme and it is the tenant in situ part of the circular I want to talk to the Minister about. Kildare County Council has purchased 84 properties over the past year and that is obviously 84 families who have been kept out of homelessness. Unfortunately, under the circular the money the council has to allocate for those purchases must come from the €15 million and the total of those moneys is €14.5 million. It also has commitments of €3.3 million to the buy and renew scheme, which means all the money allocated is gone with no new money available. I am dealing with five families who have been told in the past week they will not get a tenant in situ property. Is the Government going to look again at these allocations?

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