Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick, Fine Gael)
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576. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when a new tenant purchase scheme will be introduced for council tenants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24491/15]

Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick, Fine Gael)
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577. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the names of the estates submitted by Limerick City and County Council for consideration under any new tenant purchase scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24493/15]

Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick, Fine Gael)
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578. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if one-bedroom and two-bedroom houses will be considered under any new tenant purchase scheme to be devised by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24495/15]

Charlie McConalogue (Donegal North East, Fianna Fail)
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582. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 419 of 9 December 2014, when the new tenant purchase scheme for local authority houses will be introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24609/15]

Willie Penrose (Longford-Westmeath, Labour)
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588. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will indicate a precise date for the introduction of the new tenant purchase scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24679/15]

Paudie Coffey (Waterford, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 576 to 578, inclusive, 582 and 588 together.

Part 3 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014 provides for a new tenant purchase scheme for the purchase of existing local authority houses along incremental purchase lines, similar to the schemes currently operating for local authority apartments and certain new local authority houses.

The Government’s Social Housing Strategy 2020 includes a commitment to make the Regulations necessary for the scheme’s introduction, in the second quarter of 2015, setting out the full details involved. 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.

The scheme will apply to all local authority houses, other than affordable housing, new houses designated for sale under the 2010 incremental purchase scheme and classes of dwellings excluded from sale by regulation. It will be a matter for the local authorities to determine those houses eligible for sale under the scheme in accordance with the applicable legislation.