Mairead Farrell (Galway West, Sinn Fein)
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230. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will review the policy of joint tenancy in local authority housing with the view to include the full-time carers of tenants who also qualify for housing support in their own right; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27361/22]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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Under the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014, a “tenant” means any person to whom a housing authority has let a house under the Housing Acts 1966 to 2014 or Part V of the Planning and Development Act 2000.

Typically where a dwelling is allocated to a qualified household, which includes partners, a joint tenancy will be created unless the local authority concerned decides otherwise. The Tenancy Agreement is signed by both proposed tenants, rather than a single tenant. In certain circumstances, and if deemed appropriate, the authority may create a joint tenancy where the proposed tenants are not partners.

It is a matter for each local authority, as part of its housing management functions, to determine the conditions in relation to joint tenancies in its administrative area.