Derek Nolan (Galway West, Labour)
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600. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will devise a policy which will allow inter-transfers for local authority tenants between the various county and city councils; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8191/15]

Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour)
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The practice of a household receiving social housing support from one housing authority that wishes to transfer to another housing authority area, is currently operated on an informal basis by agreement between housing authorities. The Government’s Social Housing Strategy 2020 includes a commitment to examine the possibility of introducing a “housing passport”. This measure has the potential to enhance significantly the responsiveness of the social housing system to changing housing needs by allowing households in receipt of, or qualified for, social housing support in one local authority area to transfer to, or be allocated, social housing in another local authority area.