Tenant Purchase Scheme Administration

Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 18 February 2015

Wednesday, 18 February 2015

Questions (206)

Derek Nolan

Question:

206. Deputy Derek Nolan asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will re-introduce a tenant purchase scheme for local authority tenants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7264/15]

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 includes a commitment to introduce the new scheme by the second quarter of this year. Full details of the scheme will be set out in regulations that I will make in advance of its introduction.