Ciarán Lynch (Cork South Central, Labour)
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Question 908: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of houses purchased under the tenant purchase scheme since its inception; the number of houses which have been sold on by the purchaser for each local authority; the period of ownership after which they have been sold; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22916/08]

Michael Finneran (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fianna Fail)
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In 2007, 2,909 applications were received by housing authorities from tenants wishing to purchase their homes under a tenant purchase scheme. 2,436 of these sales were approved, with 1,231 sales completed by end 2007. Detailed information on the number of sales through tenant purchase by housing authorities since 1994 is available on my Department's website at www.environ.ie and in my Department's Housing Statistics Bulletins, copies of which are available in the Oireachtas Library. As these are now privately owned homes, my Department does not routinely collect information on the number of these homes subsequently sold on by purchasers or on the time frame within which these sales occur.