asked the Minister for Local Government whether and, if so, when he intends to introduce legislation to implement the recommendations of the Landlord and Tenant Commission (Second Report) to the effect that lessees holding their dwellings from local authorities under tenant purchase schemes should be given the right to purchase the ground rents of their dwellings.
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The matter is being considered in my Department in the context of future housing legislation. In the meantime I am prepared to consider proposals from local authorities who wish to vest the fee simple in tenant purchasers subject to reasonable conditions regarding price and the use of the dwellings.