Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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261. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there is a prohibition on local authorities purchasing houses on the open market that are vacant and bought on the open market or that have RAS tenants who have been served with a NTQ arising from a landlord selling the property. [44369/17]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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As part of the first phase of my review of Rebuilding Ireland, I announced that the funding for social housing  is being reorientated away from acquisitions towards direct build programmes for local authorities and approved housing bodies. 

Where acquisitions are undertaken for social housing use, my Department does not prescribe the exact nature of the properties. In general, these are matters for the local authorities themselves to determine, based on the nature and priority of their housing lists, but with a requirement that regard is had to local market conditions, that a reasonable tenure mix should be maintained and that properties to be acquired should represent value-for-money and must comply with statutory building and fire safety regulations.