Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick, Fine Gael)
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844. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the 2015 tenant purchase scheme will be announced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28271/15]

Seán Kyne (Galway West, Fine Gael)
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887. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if a new tenant purchase scheme is under consideration by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29217/15]

Paudie Coffey (Waterford, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 844 and 887 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, similar to the schemes currently operating for local authority apartments and certain new local authority houses.

The Government’s Social Housing Strategy 2020includes a commitment to make the Regulations necessary for the scheme’s introduction, setting out the full details involved. I expect that the new scheme will commence at the earliest possible date following the making of the Regulations which are at an advanced stage of preparation.