Written answers
Thursday, 31 March 2022
Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
Housing Schemes
Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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247. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when amended guidelines in respect of the tenant purchase scheme will be available; the reason for the delay in the issuing of these guidelines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17201/22]
Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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The Tenant (Incremental) Purchase Scheme was reviewed in 2021 in line with Programme for Government and Housing for All commitments.
The amendments, which came into effect on 1st February 2022, include a reduction in the minimum reckonable income required to be eligible under the scheme from €15,000 to €12,500. The time an applicant is required to be in receipt of social housing supports to be able to apply under the scheme has also been revised. This has been increased from one to ten years.
While local authorities have already been formally advised of these changes, my Department will issue revised guidelines shortly.
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