Tommy Broughan (Dublin North East, Independent)
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271. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 224 of 15 January 2015 with regards to the awarding of medical priority for local authority housing lists and further to the reply received from Dublin City Council that priority status is only awarded in extreme circumstances and only if an applicant’s medical difficulty will be alleviated by a change in their current housing circumstances, therefore, many applicants have indeed serious medical problems but do not merit medical priority, as a change in their housing will not improve their health, the way it is determined that an applicant’s housing will improve their health, and the types of medical conditions that have merited being awarded medical priority. [5280/15]

Paudie Coffey (Waterford, Fine Gael)
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As I indicated in my reply to the Question referred to by the Deputy, decisions on granting priority to households in the allocation of dwellings are a matter for the housing authority concerned, in accordance with section 22 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 and the associated Social Housing Allocation Regulations 2011 .