Written answers

Tuesday, 15 May 2012

Department of Environment, Community and Local Government

Local Authority Housing

8:00 pm

Photo of Catherine ByrneCatherine Byrne (Dublin South Central, Fine Gael)
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Question 351: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the progress that has been made to allow for the sale of local authority flats as provided for in the Housing Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2009; when tenants will be able to begin the process of purchasing their flat; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24042/12]

Photo of Jan O'SullivanJan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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The necessary statutory instruments were made in December 2011 under the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 to enable the new scheme for the tenant purchase of apartments to come into operation on 1 January 2012. Further regulations will be made in the coming months prescribing the form of the transfer orders for the three transfers of property ownership involved in the scheme. I have asked housing authorities, as the initial step in implementing the scheme, to identify apartment complexes in their housing stock that might be suitable for designation for tenant purchase, subject to the required level of support from the tenants of the complexes concerned. As housing authorities must take a series of steps in the run-up to the individual designation of complexes for tenant purchase, it is not possible to say at this point when councils will be a position to issue the first invitation to tenants in a designated complex to purchase their apartments under the scheme.

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emma byrne
Posted on 29 May 2012 12:10 pm (Report this comment)

Jan is allowing tenants to purchase flats and NAMA buildings whilst taking away the option to buy the house they are renting from Local Authority .Tenants are still being told by local authorities that they have the right to buy their council house and yet this is not true.The incremental purchase scheme is being introduced in June to force tenants to purchase NAMA homes and present tenants will have to move out and buy one of these.Labour are looking more and more incompetent by the week.Willie Penrose did not tie up the loose ends and when Jan o Sullivan is asked the question re tenant purchase she gives conflicting answers.

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