Tenant Purchase Scheme Administration

Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 29 January 2015

Thursday, 29 January 2015

Questions (170)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

Question:

170. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government when his Department will make the tenant purchase scheme guidelines available to local authorities. [4108/15]

Written answers

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

Part 3 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014 provides for a new scheme for the tenant purchase of existing local authority houses along incremental purchase lines. The Government’s Social Housing Strategy 2020, published in November 2014, includes a commitment to introduce the new scheme by the second quarter of this year. The detailed terms of the scheme will be set down in Regulations and guidance will also issue to local authorities on operational aspects of the scheme.