A local TD has highlighted the “unfairness” for tenants with the ongoing injustice with the local authority housing system.
Fine Gael TD, David Maxwell raised the issue with the Tánaiste in the Dáil this week.
The incremental tenant purchase scheme was launched to give long-term social housing tenants a fair path towards owning their own home.
Deputy Maxwell said that it builds generational wealth, it stabilises neighbourhoods and it rewards hard-working families.
However, he believes that thousands of families around the country are being fundamentaly locked out, through no fault of their own.
Speaking in the Dáil, he explained the situation.
He said: "Today, however, thousands of families around the country are being fundamentally locked out of this dream through no fault of their own. These are tenants living in Part V properties.
"Consider the reality on the ground where there are two tenants who have both paid their rent reliably for over ten years, both have identical household incomes and both are upstanding members of the local community.
"One tenant lives in a standard council-built housing estate and is granted a 40% to 60% discount to purchase their home while the other tenant lives just down the road in a home acquired through a private developer's Part V obligation. This second tenant is handed an outright refusal," he added.
