Séamus McGrath (Cork South-Central, Fianna Fail)
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769. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of residential units that have received planning permission with conditions restricting the bulk buying or multiple sales to a single purchaser and ring-fencing them for owner occupiers since May 2021 by local authority, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24307/25]

James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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The Government has implemented several measures in recent years to ensure a balanced housing market across all tenures, including home ownership, social housing, and private rental.

These measures include, inter alia, an 'owner-occupier' guarantee allowing local authorities to designate a percentage of houses and duplexes in a development for owner-occupiers. They were given effect in May 2021 through the Section 28 Guidelines for Planning Authorities which stipulate that a condition should be included in new planning permissions requiring all houses and duplex units to be available for sale and first occupation by separate, individual households for a certain period after completion.

These measures have succeeded in preventing the inappropriate bulk purchase of a very significant number of homes and securing those homes for purchase by homeowners, with planning permission granted for over 50,000 units with conditions prohibiting bulk purchase by, or multiple sale to, a single purchaser of those homes since May 2021.