Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 490: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when the Housing Bill will be introduced to enable tenants in non-local authority houses to purchase their dwellings; and the opportunity there is for these people to purchase their homes. [17070/06]

Noel Ahern (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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I assume that the Question refers to housing by approved housing bodies with funding provided under my Department's capital loan and subsidy scheme. While there is no provision at present in the voluntary housing scheme for the purchase of individual houses by tenants, my Department indicated in the recently published document Housing Policy Framework, Building Sustainable Communities, that consideration would be given, in consultation with the voluntary and co-operative sector, to pilot a tenant purchase scheme for some new voluntary homes under the scheme. The timing and modalities of such a scheme, including any legislative element, will be developed in the coming months.