Paudie Coffey (Fine Gael)

I accept the Minister of State's comments but I remind him they are financed by taxpayers' money, with the approval of the relevant local authority and the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government. I raise the issue because tenants in these houses do not understand why they do not have the same rights to purchase when the voluntary housing associations have received their funds directly from the Department, which essentially is taxpayers' money. I ask the Minister of State to consider that issue.