249 Deputy Terence Flanagan asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the position regarding a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42110/10]

Part 4 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 provides for tenant purchase, along incremental purchase lines, of apartments in designated existing local authority complexes. I expect to make the necessary statutory instruments early in 2011 to enable the apartment sales scheme to be brought into operation as quickly as possible thereafter.