Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)
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249. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he plans to allow flexibility for houses adapted for medical need to be considered for purchase under the tenant purchase scheme. [39915/24]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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The Tenant (Incremental) Purchase Scheme provides for the purchase by eligible tenants of local authority houses which are available for sale under the scheme. All applications for the Scheme must satisfy the requirements outlined in the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014 and the Housing (Sale of Local Authority Houses) Regulations 2015, as amended.

The Housing (Sale of Local Authority Houses) Regulations 2015 specifically exclude certain categories of houses from sale, including houses that have been provided to facilitate the transition from institutional care to community-based living of persons with an enduring physical, sensory, mental health or intellectual impairment. In addition, local authorities may, within the provisions of the regulations, exclude certain houses which the authority considers should not be sold for reasons such as proper stock or estate management. It is a matter for each individual local authority to administer the scheme in line with the governing legislation and in a manner appropriate to its housing requirements. As such, information regarding houses which a local authority has decided to exclude from sale in the interest of proper stock or estate management reasons is available directly from the relevant local authority.

My Department monitors schemes on an ongoing basis in order to ensure that they remain effective and sustainable. However, there are currently no plans to amend the categories of houses which are excluded from sale under the scheme.