Ciarán Lynch (Cork South Central, Labour)
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207. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the necessary regulations have been made under the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014 to facilitate tenant purchase of houses; if the scheme has commenced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22794/15]

Paudie Coffey (Waterford, Fine Gael)
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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. The Government's Social Housing Strategy 2020includes a commitment to make the Regulations necessary for its introduction, in the second quarter of 2015, which will set out the full details of the new scheme. It is expected that the new scheme will commence at the earliest possible date following the making of the Regulations which are at an advanced stage of drafting.

Ciarán Lynch (Cork South Central, Labour)
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208. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the present status of the provision to allow the sale of local authority apartments to tenants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22795/15]

Paudie Coffey (Waterford, Fine Gael)
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The operation of the tenant purchase scheme for local authority apartments is a matter for individual housing authorities under Part 4 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 and the associated Housing (Tenant Purchase of Apartments) Regulations 2011. Further Regulations will be made in due course prescribing the form of, and the terms and conditions to be specified in, the transfer orders and charging orders for use by housing authorities in operating the Scheme. It should be noted that these orders are not required until a housing authority has completed all the statutory steps in designating a particular apartment complex for tenant purchase and processing the required number of initial applications to purchase in that complex.