Mick Barry (Cork North Central, Solidarity)
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66. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will request local authorities to allow their housing tenants to change a gas or electricity meter from prepaid to credit; if they will cover any fees for doing so; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50509/22]

Mick Barry (Cork North Central, Solidarity)
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67. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if any local authorities have a policy of automatically installing prepaid gas or electricity meters on their housing stock; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50510/22]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 66 and 67 together.

Local authorities are legally responsible for the management and maintenance of their housing stock under section 58 of the Housing Act 1966. Local authorities also have a legal obligation to ensure that all of their tenanted properties are compliant with the provisions of the Housing (Standards for Rented Houses) Regulations, 2019. Therefore it is a matter for each individual local authority, as landlord, to decide as to whether alterations to a local authority owned home are allowable. Further information may be available by contacting the relevant local authority or authorities directly.