John Curran (Dublin Mid West, Fianna Fail)
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Question 366: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the figures for each local authority stating the number of houses sold under the tenant purchase scheme over the past five years; and the number of these houses that were subsequently re-sold within 12 and 24 months of their purchase. [24119/07]

Batt O'Keeffe (Cork North West, Fianna Fail)
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Data on the sale of local authority houses to tenants in the period 2002 to 2006 are contained in section 6 of the recently published Annual Housing Statistics Bulletin 2006, copies of which are available in the Oireachtas Library and on my Department's website at www.environ.ie. The information sought on the resale of such houses is not available in my Department.

Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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Question 367: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his Department plans to review the imposition of conditions by local authorities on certain property transfer orders (details supplied). [24129/07]

Batt O'Keeffe (Cork North West, Fianna Fail)
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I have no function in relation to individual property transactions under the tenant purchase scheme, which are the responsibility of the local authority concerned, operating within the framework set down in primary legislation and regulations made thereunder.

Article 85(2) of the Housing Regulations 1980 prescribes the form of the transfer order for the purchase of the fee simple in local authority houses originally sold to tenants by way of leasehold. I will review the form of such transfer orders as part of a broader package of reforms to the tenant purchase scheme that is being examined in the context of the Social Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill, which is currently being drafted in the Office of the Attorney General.