Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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610. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if group traveller housing was covered under the previous tenant purchase schemes; and if not, the reason that it was not possible for tenants to purchase such housing; his plans to include it in any new scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27591/13]

Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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Group traveller housing was available for sale to tenants under the 1995 purchase scheme for existing local authority houses that closed for new w applications on 31 December 2012. This class of housing was, however, excluded from sale under the 2011 purchase scheme for long-standing tenants because of the need for housing authorities to retain a stock of this type of dwelling into the future and to avoid any restriction that the sale of some houses in a group scheme might impose on the housing authority in allocating other houses in that scheme. A decision on whether particular classes of housing should be excluded from sale under a new scheme for the sale of local authority houses to tenants will be taken at the point when the detailed terms of the scheme are being prescribed in regulations.