Conor Sheehan (Limerick City, Labour)
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402. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on a single deferential rent scheme for local authority tenancies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27674/25]

James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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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 completed an initial scoping exercise to determine the focus of a standardised national differential rents scheme across the country, with an emphasis on achieving the best blend of equity, progressivity and sustainability and on protecting those on lowest incomes. This is a complex area and requires detailed and careful analysis and further work is required 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.