Joanna Tuffy (Dublin Mid West, Labour)
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Question 225: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, further to Parliamentary Question No. 239 of 24 May 2011, if he will provide details of the incremental purchase scheme; if there will be discounts for tenants of many years standing in respect of the market value of the house; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13527/11]

Willie Penrose (Longford-Westmeath, Labour)
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The incremental purchase scheme, which will replace the tenant purchase scheme for existing local authority housing, will be introduced following the enactment of primary legislation. It is not possible at this stage to specify the terms of the new scheme but the intention is that it will be modelled on the incremental purchase scheme introduced in June 2010 for newly built social housing. That scheme allows social housing tenants and households that qualify for social housing support to avail of attractive discounts - between 40% and 60% of the total cost of the house, depending on income - to purchase a new social housing unit. There is no provision in the scheme for discounts related to length of tenancy. The scheme is structured to make it attractive for households to put down long-term roots in the community and to commit to an area, thereby contributing to more stable and integrated communities.