Claire Kerrane (Roscommon-Galway, Sinn Fein)
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748. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the options available for a local authority tenant who wishes to transfer to another local authority home in a different County (details supplied). [29069/25]

James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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The arrangements for how local authority tenants who wish to move to tenancy in another local authority can be facilitated is determined solely by the relevant local authority concerned. These arrangements should be included in that authority’s allocation scheme, which is made by the elected members under section 22 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 and the associated Social Housing Allocation Regulations 2011.

In making their allocation schemes, local authorities are required to specify, among other things, the manner of, and the order of priority for, the allocation of dwellings to households on the waiting list and households who have been approved for transfers. Ultimately, it is a matter for the local authority to decide the conditions to be met in relation to transfer applications.

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 provided certain criteria are met. Such arrangements are entirely a matter for the local authority concerned.