Written answers

Tuesday, 30 May 2023

Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government

 
  • Domestic Violence
    349. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated capital expenditure cost of providing one staffed additional family refuge space; and if he will make a...
  • Energy Prices
    350. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of the concerns of local authority tenants on the cost of air-to-water systems being installed in their homes...
  • Housing Provision
    351. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which his Department continues to endeavour to ensure the availability of suitable accommodation for families,...
  • Fire Service
    352. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will outline the actions he has taken to date arising from the report that he directed the management board of the NDFEM...
  • EU Regulations
    353. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the impact assessments that are being carried out in relation to the proposed EU Nature Restoration Regulation concerning the...
  • Rental Sector
    354. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a certain area (details supplied) is within a rent pressure zone; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25554/23]
  • Departmental Reports
    355. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will outline his response to the Health Service Board report into deaths among people who were homeless at time of death...
  • Departmental Budgets
    356. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will detail what funding heads A14 and A18 within his Department's annual voted expenditure related to; and if he will...
  • Housing Provision
    357. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide the construction costs and the all-in development costs per square meter, for social housing projects...
  • Fire Service
    358. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps his Department has taken to address the challenges of retaining part-time firefighters; when he will address the...
  • Housing Provision
    361. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will indicate for each local authority, the number of expressions of interest to his Department; the number of...
  • Housing Schemes
    366. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware that many successful applicants for the croí cónaithe fund schemes are unable to draw down the grant...
  • State Bodies
    367. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the staffing levels for the National Building Control Office since 2020; if he will detail all requests for additional staff...
  • Local Authorities
    368. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of money, both allocated and spent, on housing maintenance by each respective local authority for the years 2020,...
  • Planning Issues
    371. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he plans to amend paragraph 6 subsection (a) of Section 254, Planning and Development Act 2000 to include a requirement, in...
  • Veterinary Services
    372. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of vacancies within local authority veterinary services; his proposals to ensure an adequate service across all...
  • Property Registration
    375. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide the WTE-staff compliment of the Property Registration Authority, by grade; the number of vacancies at the...
  • Planning Issues
    376. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position, in general terms, when an application is under review with An Bord Pleanála, in terms of whether any...
  • Housing Schemes
    377. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to concerns related to the croí cónaithe grant funding creating additional legal...
  • Planning Issues
    378. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps that can be taken to expedite the decision-making powers of An Bord Pleanála, where decisions that were due a...
  • House Prices
    379. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average cost of building a one-bedroom apartment. [25811/23]
  • Departmental Schemes
    380. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if private health contribution payments, private pension contribution payments and membership fees paid to trades union can be...
  • Departmental Expenditure
    381. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide further details on the causes of the underspend of 32.5% or €141 million below profile, as outlined...
  • Housing Schemes
    382. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will outline the criteria for which a local authority can refuse to purchase a property under the tenant-in-situ scheme;...
  • Departmental Strategies
    383. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position on the Marine Strategy Framework Directive Common Implementation Strategy on Seabed Integrity; if he agrees with...
  • Housing Schemes
    384. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the operation of ‘home for life’ in the mortgage-to-rent scheme. [25852/23]
  • Flood Risk Management
    386. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when works (details supplied) will actually be carried out, given that the case has been prioritised for some time; if an...
  • Housing Schemes
    387. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applications for funding of social housing developments/acquisitions/turnkey/leases applied for by Tipperary...
  • Quarrying Sector
    391. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will confirm from when Irish quarries and concrete producers had to comply with I.S. EN 12620 (details supplied). [25890/23]
  • National Monuments
    392. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of prosecutions made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 in the past ten years; and the number of...
  • Fire Service
    393. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a copy of the 2009 report by the Expert Advisory Group on Monuments and Archaeological Heritage which...
  • Allotments Provision
    394. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if approval will be given for a review of the current conditions of retained firefighters; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Childcare Services
    395. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the proposed policy to help protect and provide more allotments and community gardens in...
  • Heritage Council
    396. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department assists with, or makes a financial contribution to, the sourcing or provision of childcare or crèche...
  • Environmental Policy
    401. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the action his Department is taking to improve the indoor environmental quality standards of Ireland’s homes. [26039/23]
  • Urban Development
    402. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason responsibility for the collaborative town centre health check scheme was transferred to the LGMA from the Heritage...
  • Domestic Violence
    403. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total estimated cost to build a ten-room domestic violence refuge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26055/23]
  • Rental Sector
    404. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of determinations by the Residential Tenancies Board which have been appealed to both the Residential Tenancies...
  • Departmental Schemes
    409. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied) who has not been refunded money taken by...
  • Housing Schemes
    410. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applications that have been made by people in Donegal wishing to avail of the cost rental tenant-in-situ scheme;...
  • Rental Sector
    414. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will confirm whether changes have been made to guidance for dealing with HAP tenants in arrears in their differential...
  • Departmental Expenditure
    415. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount paid by his Department to external legal teams, HR specialists, accountancy firms and consultants in 2022; and if...
  • Legislative Process
    416. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of a campaign in Drogheda (details supplied); if he will outline the legislative process or current...
  • Housing Provision
    417. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the up-to-date position with the provision of social housing at a site (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will...
  • Waterways Issues
    419. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the up-to-date position with the provision of infrastructure (details supplied) in County Kildare; the current status of it;...
  • State Bodies
    420. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to address staff shortages in the National Building Control and Market Surveillance Office. [26284/23]
  • Planning Issues
    421. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the rate of fees payable for persons who wish to submit planning observations; and his views on whether the rate...
  • Departmental Strategies
    422. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the modelling his Department maintains on future building capacity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26286/23]
  • Water Safety
    423. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of the shortage of beach lifeguards in Fingal; if he will raise the rate of pay for beach lifeguards; if his...
  • Housing Provision
    424. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the 17 local authority housing units approved for construction at a location (details supplied) have finished construction;...
  • State Bodies
    427. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the staffing levels in the Maritime Area Regulatory Authority; the appointments to date and their...
  • Local Authorities
    429. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the local authority biodiversity officer programme. [26331/23]
  • Water Supply
    433. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the terms of access to any or all grants for the provision for private wells for private housing who have a connection to...
  • Housing Provision
    434. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he or the Government have plans or intentions, given our increasing ageing population, to establish a distinct unit to...
  • Housing Schemes
    436. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures, if any, in place, to assist persons to purchase houses which were previously owned, i.e. not new builds, and not...
  • Housing Provision
    437. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social and affordable homes delivered in Cork in 2022 and to date in 2023; and if he will make a statement on...
  • EU Directives
    438. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide details on the planned economic impact assessment around the proposed nature restoration law; and if he...

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