Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)
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1105.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if an urgent review can be conducted of the differential rent scheme nationwide. [32434/24]

Violet-Anne Wynne (Clare, Independent)
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1150.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 262 of 28 May 2024, for an update on the review his Department undertook in respect of the differential rent scheme for local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33047/24]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 1105 and 1150 together.

Housing for All commits to developing proposals to review the existing differential rent system and to provide for a standardised, national local authority social housing rent model. The objective is to develop and implement a model that provides the best blend between fairness, progressivity and sustainability.

My Department has completed an initial scoping exercise to determine the focus of the review. Further work has commenced to consider the practical application of such a scheme in the context of other reform package measures, as well as the broader circumstances of social housing funding programmes and the cost-of-living issues at this time.

Proposals will be submitted to me for my consideration in due course and any decision to implement a standardised national rents scheme will be considered thereafter, as appropriate.