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Tenant purchase and support legislation

Summary

Robert Troy asks for timetables for the tenant purchase scheme, adoption tracing and information legislation, and a replacement mobility allowance scheme. The Taoiseach says all three Bills will come before the House in the next Dáil session, after the summer.

I have three questions. One is on the awaited tenant purchase scheme. During the past 18 months, no local authority tenant has been eligible to buy his or her council house, despite repeated promises that the legislation will be published within months. Can the Taoiseach give a definitive timeframe in which we will know when the new scheme will be announced?

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Seán Barrett An Ceann Comhairle Fine Gael

This is a matter for a parliamentary question.

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The Government has repeatedly promised that it will bring the adoption (tracing and information) Bill before the House. When will it happen? The Taoiseach is aware that for the past two years, the mobility allowance has been closed to new applications. Although the Government has promised to deal with this in the short term, two years on, we still await the publication of the health (transport support) Bill. Meanwhile, people with mobility issues cannot avail of the scheme. When will a new scheme be published?

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Enda Kenny The Taoiseach Fine Gael

All three Bills will come before us in the next Dáil session.

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Before summer.

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Enda Kenny The Taoiseach Fine Gael

No, after summer.

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