Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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333. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to reintroduce the tenant purchase scheme to allow tenants in rented local authority houses to purchase their homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28354/14]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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The Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014, which has passed all stages in the Dáil , and for which Second Stage will be taken in the Seanad today, will, among other things, underpin a new tenant purchase scheme to replace the 1995 scheme for existing local authority houses, which closed for new applications at the end of 2012. The new scheme will be broadly similar to the two incremental purchase schemes currently in operation, relating to newly built local authority houses and local authority apartments respectively. I expect that the Bill will be enacted by the summer, following which I will prescribe the commencement date and the detailed terms of the scheme.