77 Mr. Sherlock asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the primary legislation he will publish between now and the end of the current Dáil; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42603/06]

525 Mr. Morgan asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the Bills he expects to publish before the end of 2006; and thereafter the Bills he expects to publish before the general election. [42650/06]

I propose to take Questions Nos. 77 and 525 together.

In addition to the Carbon Fund Bill 2006, which has just been published, I intend early in 2007 to publish

a Housing Bill which will deal, inter alia, with revised tenant purchase arrangements (including sale of local authority apartments), the Rental Accommodation Scheme and local authority powers to deal with ant-social behaviour, and

an Electoral Bill to address the issues arising from the recent Supreme Court judgement concerning assenting to the nomination of Non-Party candidates at Dáil elections.