Thomas Byrne (Meath East, Fianna Fail)
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239. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the rural cottage scheme will re-open. [2279/18]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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Local authorities have a number of options available to them in meeting social housing needs. These include, if they consider it appropriate, the transfer of a site from a person qualified for social housing to the local authority, and the building of a social house on the site by the local authority, to be tenanted by the person who transferred the site. I understand that the scheme referred to by the Deputy was of this type.

It is of course open to any person who is qualified for social housing support to make any particular proposal to the relevant local authority, for their consideration, in connection with the provision of a site. However, the actual operation of such an approach to social housing provision continues to be a matter for the relevant local authority concerned.