Séamus Healy (Tipperary South, Workers and Unemployed Action Group)
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To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will confirm the details of the recently announced local authority tenant purchase scheme; the date of publication ; the date of commencement of the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10315/13]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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The 1995 tenant purchase scheme for existing local authority houses close d for new applications on 31 December 2012. I intend to replace that scheme with a new scheme based on the incremental purchase model, involving discounts for tenants linked to household income and a discount-related charge on the property that will dwindle away over a period unless the house is resold or the purchaser fails to comply with conditions of the sale. I intend to bring forward the necessary legislative provisions as soon as possible.