David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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610. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the national rent scheme will be introduced to County Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48739/17]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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As the Deputy will be aware, the setting of social housing rents is a matter for each individual local authority.

Section 31 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009, as amended, provided for the introduction of a national framework for social housing rents. Considerable work has been carried out by my Department in developing a draft framework for a harmonisation of the approach to be taken by local authorities in regard to various aspects of rent schemes. These proposals were examined further in the light of the broader commitment given in the Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness to review the disparate systems of differential rents for social housing in place across local authorities. This review will be completed shortly.