Paul McAuliffe (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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324. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans for a rural resettlement scheme. [17969/20]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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The Programme for Government provides for a package of social housing reforms, including the introduction of a social housing passport to allow households move from one local authority list to another.   

It should be noted that the four Dublin local authorities already co-operate in arrangements that enable social housing applicants to apply for housing in one or two of the other Dublin authorities simultaneously.  Similar arrangements apply in the two Cork and two Galway local authorities.  It is also already possible for households to move and relocate between housing authority areas under the Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) Scheme where the household income is within the appropriate income limits. 

The issue of providing for wider movements for social housing applicants is being examined and I will look at proposals in relation to such wider movement along with the other reform package measures. I do not have current plans for a rural resettlement scheme beyond extending mobility for social housing applicants.