Michael Lowry (Tipperary, Independent)
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1060. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a local authority plans to purchase a house in the functional area of another local authority for the provision of social housing, if it is the reserved function of the local authority elected members in the local authority area in which the house is located to ratify the purchase of the house before it takes place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7764/20]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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Section 109 of the Housing Act 1966 provides for the exercise by a housing authority of functions under the Act outside its functional area. The section also provides that the authority by whom the function is intended to be performed, and the other authority, may make and carry out an agreement in relation to the function. Where such an agreement is made, this is a reserved function.