Rory Hearne
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352 appearances
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3 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 24 Aug
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Good morning, David, morning to you and your listeners.
Yeah, so this is something that I've been working on um since I was elected over a year and a half ago with the because it was a big issue that actually came up in the election on the doors.
Um where older people were saying that they would like to downsize, right size.
Um and they wanted housing in their community that they could move to.
And so I've been following up on this and
Um as a result of following up on it, I've realised and found out that actually the there was a scheme in place that whereby the councils could buy it a with a discount property.
off a homeowner and then give them an appropriate uh smaller unit or, you know, a council property.
Um and that actually the scheme was paused in the last year and it's unclear why the it would have been the Department of Housing paused this, why the government paused it.
It was working, it was providing a stream of as Sean said, people given people choice to move down to and then freeze up a bigger home for a family.
um to move into and it it's as I described it like it's a no brainer scheme.
You would think that this is something that is actually working, but for some reason that I I really think that you know the minister has to come out and explain why they've paused this scheme.
It is something that should be expanded rather than actually paused.
And as the work done by um Wayne O'Connor and the Sunday Independent there on the weekend showed that there's, you know, t over two hundred people on a waiting list in Limerick and over a hundred and fifty people in Dublin City Council.
And these waiting lists it's important to point out were actually paused themselves, so we know there are more people and if you extrapolate that across the country, there are thousands of people who are very interested in this scheme
avail of it.
Well, it d this is again is, you know, to me this is a pass in the book.
This is not taking it serious, saying that it's, you know, to the councils and I we hear this all the time, you know, the councils are been blamed for, you know, the schemes that aren't working, for housing that's not working, and then you go back and you find out that actually it's the department that has paused money and going to the the councils
And there's a real issue here.
The councils need to be supported.
When a scheme is working properly like this one, they need to be supported to expand it.
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