Thomas Gould (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein)
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132. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there is a rule preventing house swaps amongst social housing tenants where one tenant is a resident of a local authority and another a resident of an AHB; and the rationale behind same. [6235/23]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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Matters in relation to the allocation of social dwellings, including the transfer of sitting tenants to other dwellings, are the responsibility of the respective local authorities. My department has no role in this regard.

There is no legislative or policy provision preventing a tenant in an AHB social dwelling, who was drawn from the local authority's social housing waiting list, from applying to be placed on a local authority transfer list. Such transfers are facilitated by local authorities in accordance with their respective allocation schemes.

Some local authorities provide for mutual transfers between sitting tenants in their allocation schemes and accommodate such transfers where prescribed criteria are met. These arrangements are entirely a matter for the local authorities concerned.