Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 11 June 2013
610. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if group Traveller housing was covered under the previous tenant purchase schemes; if not, the reason that it was not possible for tenants to purchase such housing; his plans to include it in any new scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27591/13]
View answerGroup Traveller housing was available for sale to tenants under the 1995 purchase scheme for existing local authority houses that closed for new applications on 31 December 2012. This class of housing was, however, excluded from sale under the 2011 purchase scheme for long-standing tenants because of the need for housing authorities to retain a stock of this type of dwelling into the future and to avoid any restriction that the sale of some houses in a group scheme might impose on the housing authority in allocating other houses in that scheme. A decision on whether particular classes of housing should be excluded from sale under a new scheme for the sale of local authority houses to tenants will be taken at the point when the detailed terms of the scheme are being prescribed in regulations.
