The government has announced a scheme whereby local authority tenants may now buy their houses at half price.

Report shows local authority housing estate.

Interview with Mary Harney, Progressive Democrats, who welcomes the scheme saying it will have good economic and social implications.

Interview with Tomás MacGiolla who says there will be no further investment in local authority housing.

Photographs of Dick Spring, Labour TD, and John Boland, Fine Gael TD, with a voiceover stating their reactions.

The reporter is Maggie O'Kane.

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