Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 15:

In page 45, between lines 20 and 21, to insert the following:“Part 3 and amendment of Principal Act
31. The Principal Act is amended in section 90—

(a) by deleting subsections (1)(a)(i), (2), (3), (4A) and (6A), and
(b) in subsection (7), by deleting paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) and by substituting the following for paragraph (l):

“(l) in the case of a sale under this section, the obtaining of the consent of the Minister to the sale;”.”.

I am proposing these three amendments which arise from the provisions of Part 3 providing for a new incremental purchase scheme for tenants of existing local authority houses. With the enactment of Part 3, the amendments will repeal the tenant purchase provisions of section 90 of the Housing Act 1966 and related provisions.
Amendment No. 15 will delete from the Statue Book the tenant purchase provisions of section 90 of the Housing Act 1966, under which the 1995 tenant purchase schemes and previous national purchase schemes operated, thus providing a clear legislative basis for the new scheme. The provisions of section 90 relating to the sale of local authority dwellings to persons other than tenants will continue in force.
Amendment No. 16 repeals section 26(2) of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1992 which was a transitional arrangement consequent on the substitution, under the 1992 Act, of an entirely new text for section 90 of the 1966 Act. This enactment is now out of date.
Amendment No. 17 is to section 10 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 and changes the reference to section 90 of the 1966 Act to reflect the narrower scope of the enactment following the proposed repeal of the tenant purchase provisions of section 90 provided for in amendment No. 15.