Regina Doherty (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I want to raise an issue involving a lovely lady from Rush who is just about to buy one of the new affordable houses we have there. She is a single mom looking after three beautiful children. She has gone through the hoops for the past couple of years and is just about to lose a house that was secured for her, one of the small number of houses that were available. The local authority housing loan as part of Fingal County Council and the affordable housing people who are offering the houses do not seem to be able to talk to each other. The scheme that we have with the local authorities to get a mortgage has a €65,000 salary earnings cap. That is not based on last year's earnings but this year's, even though this year is not over.The lady's current salary slip shows that if she worked for the 52 weeks of the year, she would probably earn over the €65,000.