753. Deputy Derek Nolan asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government when a new tenant purchase scheme will be introduced to allow tenants of county councils to purchase their own homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22971/15]

755. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government when the new Incremental tenant purchase scheme for existing local authority dwellings will be operational; the details of the scheme; the way it will affect existing local authority dwellings; when regulations outlining the new scheme will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23071/15]

I propose to take Questions Nos. 753 and 755 together.

Part 3 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014 provides for a new tenant purchase scheme for the purchase of existing local authority houses along incremental purchase lines. The Government’s Social Housing Strategy 2020 includes a commitment to make the Regulations necessary for the scheme’s introduction, in the second quarter of 2015, which will set out the full details of the scheme.

It is expected that the new scheme will commence at the earliest possible date following the making of the Regulations which are at an advanced stage of drafting.