Tenant purchase scheme
Deputy O'Dea criticised the tenant purchase scheme for excluding people reliant solely on social welfare and asked when the promised overhaul would happen. The Taoiseach said no legislation was needed and that he would inform the Deputy of the Minister’s intentions.
Is the Taoiseach aware that the tenant purchase scheme introduced by his previous Government is the first tenant purchase scheme in the history of the State to preclude those who rely solely on social welfare from purchasing their local authority house? Incidentally, it was introduced by a Labour Party Minister. There was nobody blocked there. Will the Taoiseach tell me when the commitment in the programme for Government to overhaul that will be met? Can the Government not do that straight away? It does not need legislation to do that. Will the Government allow this discrimination against tenants who rely exclusively on social welfare to continue?
