Written answers

Wednesday, 19 September 2012

Department of Environment, Community and Local Government

Local Authority Housing Mortgages

Photo of Bernard DurkanBernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to a practice that couples who are divorced and separated and entering a new relationship are being barred from obtaining a local authority house purchase loan or mortgage in the grounds that such loans are exclusive to first time buyers; if he recognises that such persons in a new relationship under equality law should be regarded as first time buyers notwithstanding the fact that they may have had a mortgage previously from a local authority in a previous relationship; if he will address this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39374/12]

Photo of Jan O'SullivanJan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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One of the conditions applying to the availability of local authority mortgages is that the applicant be a first time buyer. Provisions regarding the application of stamp duty and the definition of a first time buyer for the purposes of stamp duty are set out in the Stamp Duties Acts, which fall within the remit of the Minister for Finance.

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