Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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Question 440: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 226 of 11 November 2008, the number of persons currently availing of the shared ownership scheme who have household incomes of €28,000 or below; when this threshold was last raised; and his views on raising the threshold to reflect current average income levels. [40772/08]

Michael Finneran (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fianna Fail)
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My Department does not collect data in relation to the income of individual applicants under the shared ownership scheme. However, under the scheme, a graded subsidy towards the rental element of the property is available to shared ownership purchasers whose household income in the preceding tax year is €28,000 or less. The number of households availing of this subsidy to date in 2008 is 1,630.

Income bands under the shared ownership scheme were last revised in 2006. The income and loan limits applying in relation to local authority housing loans are currently under review.