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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, June 09, 2025

QUESTION NO. 25

QUESTION: Councillor F. Timmons

To ask the Chief Executive will the Council be allowing any tenants to purchase the council house they are living in?

REPLY:

The council facilitates eligible applicants to purchase their local authority rented home through the 2016 Incremental Tenant Purchase Scheme.

Applicants must have a minimum income of €11,000 per year. Some social welfare payments (including pensions) by the Department of Social Protection are acceptable once they are accompanied by income from employment.

The period of time tenants will be required to be in receipt of social housing support to be considered eligible under the scheme is 10 years. In the case of joint tenancies, one tenant must be in receipt of social housing support for at least 10 years before being eligible to apply. Exclusions apply under the Tenant Purchase Scheme in relation to rent arrears, anti-social behaviour etc. and classes of property that can be sold under the scheme.

Further information on the scheme is available on our website www.sdcc.ie and the sales scheme team are also available to assist with enquiries from tenants. they can be contacted at hloanacc@sdublincoco.ie.