Willie O'Dea (Limerick City, Fianna Fail)
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339. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the resolution adopted by Limerick County Council in May 2013 to seek permission to place persons who have surrendered their council tenancies further to intimidation back on the housing list; if he will support this request; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29067/13]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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A copy of the resolution referred to was received in my Department on 11 June.

The inclusion of a household by a housing authority on its list of qualified households is a matter for the housing authority concerned under the provisions of section 20 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009, regulation s made under that section, and having regard to the particular circumstances of each case.

The priority accorded to a household is also a matter for the housing authority and should be determined by reference to the authority’s allocation scheme provided for under section 22 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009, and Regulations made thereunder.

These Regulations require authorities to set out the manner in which they will allocate dwellings to households on the waiting list and households who have been approved for transfers. The Regulations also require authorities to set out in their allocation scheme how they will determine the order of priority for the allocation of dwellings.