Jerry Buttimer (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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521. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government for an update on the roll-out of a new tenant purchase scheme for local authority tenants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39024/15]

Charlie McConalogue (Donegal North East, Fianna Fail)
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537. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 681 of 20 October 2015, if the necessary regulations for the new tenant purchase scheme have been finalised and signed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39321/15]

Paudie Coffey (Waterford, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 521 and 537 together.

My colleague, the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government has signed the Housing (Sale of Local Authority Houses) Regulations 2015 to enable the new scheme for the tenant purchase of existing local authority houses along incremental purchase lines to come into operation on 1 January 2016. The new year commencement will allow time for housing authorities to familiarise themselves with the detail of the Regulations and the new scheme and for interested tenants to make necessary preparations to apply to purchase.

A copy of the Regulations has been laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas and details of the new scheme will be announced shortly.