Fergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael)
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514. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if a council can insist that a local authority tenant, of over 30 years standing, who has not yet commenced to purchase the family home, and who does not owe any rent whatsoever, must surrender the legal right to purchase this home, to the local authority, as a mandatory pre-condition to a housing adaptation grant being used by the local authority to deal with that person's disability needs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7130/15]

Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour)
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Under the Social Housing Investment Programme, my Department allocates funding to support local authorities in undertaking adaptations and extensions to their social housing stock, to meet the needs of tenants with a disability or to address serious overcrowding. The implementation of works under these programmes, and the management and maintenance of social housing stock, is a matter for the local authorities.