Rural Development Policy

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 16 April 2013

Tuesday, 16 April 2013

Questions (757)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

Question:

757. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the proposals he has to re-energise the rural resettlement programme which was available for city tenants in the past. [16127/13]

Written answers

Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government

Under an arrangement between Dublin City Council and Rural Resettlement Ireland (RRI), an approved housing body, tenants of the City Council who wished to vacate their social rented accommodation were assisted in relocating from Dublin to a rural location. The rural resettlement scheme was implemented by way of a local arrangement between the City Council and RRI and any decision to continue or accelerate the scheme is, in the first instance, a matter for the parties concerned.