Dessie Ellis (Dublin North West, Sinn Fein)
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563. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide update on the implementation of the tenant purchase scheme; if he will provide a list of all local authorities where this scheme will be available; and the expected time at which it will be commenced in these areas. [4423/15]

Tommy Broughan (Dublin North East, Independent)
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582. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will announce the regulations and start date for the proposed new tenant purchase programme. [4891/15]

Paudie Coffey (Waterford, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 563 and 582 together.

Part 3 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014 provides for a new scheme for the tenant purchase of existing local authority houses along incremental purchase lines. Statutory instruments will be made setting a single commencement date for the introduction of the new scheme by all housing authorities and prescribing the detailed terms of the scheme. The Government’s Social Housing Strategy 2020,published in November 2014, includes a commitment to introduce the new scheme by the second quarter of this year.