Tenant Purchase Scheme Administration

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 24 March 2015

Tuesday, 24 March 2015

Questions (892)

Jonathan O'Brien

Question:

892. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the status of the purchase scheme for local authority apartments. [11727/15]

Written answers

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

The operation of the tenant purchase scheme for local authority apartments is a matter for individual housing authorities under Part 4 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 and the associated Housing (Tenant Purchase of Apartments) Regulations 2011. Further Regulations will made in due course prescribing the form of, and the terms and conditions to be specified in, the transfer orders and charging orders for use by housing authorities in operating the Scheme. It should be noted that these orders do not come into play until a housing authority has completed all the statutory steps in designating a particular apartment complex for tenant purchase and processed the required number of initial applications to purchase in that complex.