Written answers

Thursday, 29 March 2012

Department of Environment, Community and Local Government

Social and Affordable Housing

1:00 pm

Photo of Catherine MurphyCatherine Murphy (Kildare North, Independent)
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Question 164: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he intends to permit those in voluntary housing to purchase their homes; if he has had discussions in relation to this with the Irish Council for Social Housing or other associations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17457/12]

Photo of Jan O'SullivanJan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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There is no provision at present in the voluntary housing schemes for the purchase of individual houses by tenants. My Department is currently in consultation with the voluntary housing sector, through the Irish Council for Social Housing, with regard to the development of an enabling regulatory framework that will support the expanded role for the sector foreseen in the Government's housing policy statement of June 2011.

In developing this framework, my Department will, inter alia, examine a range of issues around making best use of the significant equity inherent in the voluntary housing stock, including how some of this equity might be released to leverage additional new supply, including through the sale of voluntary houses to tenants.

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