Tenant Purchase Scheme Administration

Tuesday, 9 December 2014

Questions (414, 419)

Brian Stanley

Question:

414. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government when the new tenant purchase scheme for local authority tenants will be introduced. [47378/14]

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419. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the date on which a new tenant purchase scheme will be introduced for local authority tenants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46896/14]

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Written answers

Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government

I propose to take Questions Nos. 414 and 419 together.

Part 3 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014 provides for a new scheme for the tenant purchase of existing local authority houses. The Social Housing Strategy 2020 approved by the Government and published last month includes a commitment to introduce the new tenant purchase scheme by the second quarter of 2015.