Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)
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418. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will introduce a scheme to enable local authority tenants to apply for inter-county transfers [24401/23]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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Requests for housing transfers are considered solely by the relevant local authority concerned in accordance with that authority’s allocation scheme, which is made by the elected members under section 22 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 and in compliance with Social Housing Allocation Regulations 2011.

Some local authorities have provisions in their allocation schemes for inter authority/mutual transfers for sitting tenants whereby the authority is prepared to accommodate applications for inter authority/mutual transfers provided certain criteria are met. Such arrangements are entirely a matter for the local authority concerned.

Wider tenancy movements will be examined this year and I will consider any proposals regarding such movements in the context of other reform package measures.

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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On 25 April 2023, the Government approved additional measures under the Housing for All Action Plan to incentivise the activation of increased housing supply and help reduce housing construction costs, including the introduction of temporary time-limited arrangements for the waiving of local authority “section 48” development contributions and the refunding of Uisce Éireann water and waste water connection charges.

My Department is currently working on the detailed arrangements in relation to the operation and administration of the development contribution waiver scheme and the Uisce Éireann connection charge refund scheme. However, Group Water Scheme charges do not fall within the scope of the measures recently approved by Government. The water connection charge refund scheme will only apply to water and waste water connection charges payable to Uisce Éireann.