Dan Boyle (Cork South Central, Green Party)
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Question 526: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his Department encourages a policy of transference of tenancy to sub-tenants of local authority housing, where such sub-tenants are family members of the original tenants; and if a record is kept of such transfers that might be kept in a given year. [27419/05]

Noel Ahern (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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The issue of succession to tenancies by family members living in a local authority dwelling is entirely a matter for local authorities to be decided in accordance with their scheme of letting priorities. The guidelines issued by my Department to local authorities indicate that a scheme of letting priorities should normally contain provisions to allow, subject to appropriate conditions, succession by family members living in a dwelling in the case of death or departure of a tenant. My Department does not obtain statistics from local authorities on the number of succession tenancies each year at local level.