Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 18 November 2014
492. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government when the funding to local authorities will be made to their new round of house purchase schemes (details supplied). [44458/14]
View answer513. Deputy Patrick O'Donovan asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his plans within the Department to set up a new tenant purchase scheme in the near future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44179/14]
View answerI propose to take Questions Nos. 492 and 513 together.
Part 3 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014 provides for a new scheme for the tenant purchase of existing local authority houses. I intend to make the necessary statutory instruments in the coming months to enable the scheme to come into operation.
Local authority tenant purchase does not involve the transfer of specific funds from my Department to housing authorities.
