Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent)
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129. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill 2023, announced as legislation for priority publication this session, will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25037/23]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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The Government's Legislation Programme for summer 2023, published in April, includes the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill 2023 for priority drafting in this Oireachtas session.

Policy is being developed as a matter of priority and draft legislative provisions and administrative measures are being examined to help a tenant to buy their rented home on the basis of a landlord offering their tenant first right of refusal, in accordance with the Government Decision of 7 March 2023.

It is important to note that there is currently no legal obstacle to a sitting tenant and a landlord agreeing a contract for sale of a rented home, where the tenant has the means to do so.