Louis O'Hara (Galway East, Sinn Fein)
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501. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if local authority tenants, living in a part V home, can purchase their home under the tenant purchase scheme; if he intends to review this policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32023/25]

James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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The Tenant (Incremental) Purchase Scheme is open to eligible tenants of local authority houses that are available for sale under the scheme. The scheme is underpinned by the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014 and the Housing (Sale of Local Authority Houses) Regulations 2015 (as amended).

The regulations provide for a number of specified classes of houses to be excluded from sale, including those provided to local authorities under Part V of the Planning and Development Act 2000. The Part V provisions seek to promote social integration and secure mixed tenure, sustainable communities. Accordingly, Part V properties are excluded from the scheme to ensure the original policy goals of the legislation are not eroded over time and the properties remain available for people in need of social housing support.

My Department monitors schemes such as this on an ongoing basis to ensure that they remain effective and sustainable, however, there are no plans to amend the scheme at this time.