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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (9 Sep 2024)

Richard Bruton: 891.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current caps on grant payments and the current caps on income which apply to housing aid for older people, to mobility aids, and to housing adaptation grants; when these caps were last raised; the level these caps would reach if grants had been indexed to the average cost of works undertaken under the scheme, and the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (9 Sep 2024)

Richard Bruton: 839.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how the updated National Planning Framework envisages the future split in house building across the categories of: rural one-off housing; village growth; town growth; growth in satellite areas of the five cities and in the five cities themselves; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35025/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Development Plan (9 Sep 2024)

Richard Bruton: 840.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how he envisages that the investment plans developed in the new ten-year county development plans will interact with the national planning of infrastructure under the National Development Plan; and if it will be necessary for the various Government Departments to align their investment approaches to this new process of having...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: House Prices (9 Sep 2024)

Richard Bruton: 841.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has undertaken work to establish how the price of a second-hand residence compares with the price of a new build in each county; if so, the findings; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[35027/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: House Prices (9 Sep 2024)

Richard Bruton: 861.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has carried out an estimate of the number of homes in the pipeline for affordable purchase in Dublin; if so, how it compares to the pipeline for cost rental; and if he will consider setting a quota on new Land Development Agency projects that they contain a minimum of 30% for affordable purchase, or of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: House Prices (9 Sep 2024)

Richard Bruton: 893.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the maximum contribution by the State towards the cost of affordable purchase, under the council-developed sites, under sites developed by approved housing bodies, under the croí cónaithe cities fund, under protect Tosaigh partnerships operated by the Land Development Agency (LDA) and under projects fully financed...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (9 Sep 2024)

Richard Bruton: 892.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the scale of the pipeline for social homes and for affordable homes, from the local authorities, from the approved housing bodies and from the Land Development Agency, both for Dublin and for the rest of the country; and the estimated number of these which will be delivered in the next three years.[35873/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (9 Sep 2024)

Richard Bruton: 898.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the conditions under which the vacant or derelict property grants can be paid; the level of applications received to date; the level of approvals; the level of completions; if he has received proposals for the relaxation of some of the conditions; and if he is disposed to consider changes.[35879/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (9 Sep 2024)

Richard Bruton: 894.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the house price caps that apply under first homes, and under the local authority home loan; and if he has plans to adjust these, in view of the rising house prices.[35875/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (9 Sep 2024)

Richard Bruton: 895.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the income caps that apply under local authority home loans, under cost rental, and for inclusion on the housing list for social homes; if he has plans to adjust these in line with rising average earnings; and if he has considered that higher costs in Dublin and other locations warrant the application of differentiated...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (9 Sep 2024)

Richard Bruton: 896.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current interest charged on local authority home loans and on the outstanding equity under first homes; the way these are set relative to rates set by the European Central Bank or other benchmark rates; and whether reductions in these rates are in early prospect.[35877/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (9 Sep 2024)

Richard Bruton: 897.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way the present interest rate on a local authority home loan translates into a monthly payment per €1,000 borrowed.[35878/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (9 Sep 2024)

Richard Bruton: 1031.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the start date for pay-related jobseeker’s benefit; the percentage of previous earnings to be awarded; and the ceilings and duration which applies.[35838/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (9 Sep 2024)

Richard Bruton: 1019.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to outline the levels of maternity benefit and maternity leave, of paternity benefit and leave, of parental benefit and parental leave which shall apply during 2025; and if there are any anticipated changes in any of these due to take place during 2025.[35821/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (9 Sep 2024)

Richard Bruton: 1020.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has considered extending the period during which domiciliary care allowance can be paid beyond the 16th birthday for those who continue in full-time education and do not wish to seek eligibility for disability allowance which is paid on an entirely different criteria, so it would be on similar years as for the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (9 Sep 2024)

Richard Bruton: 1021.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the terms on which a full-time carer can be considered for pension eligibility based on their years of caring; if contributions during years of full-time caring can be mixed with contributions of other sorts; and if minimum paid insurance requirements are different where a mixed contribution record applies.[35827/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (9 Sep 2024)

Richard Bruton: 1022.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the additional supports or secondary benefits allowed to persons on a carer’s allowance, and to persons on a carer’s benefit.[35828/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (9 Sep 2024)

Richard Bruton: 1023.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of carer’s benefit; the typical duration of their claim; and if she has considered greater flexibility under this scheme to cover intermittent caring periods.[35829/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (9 Sep 2024)

Richard Bruton: 1024.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of the carer’s support grant; the number of these who already have carer’s payments or domiciliary care allowance; and the numbers who qualify independently of these schemes.[35830/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (9 Sep 2024)

Richard Bruton: 1025.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the concept of tiered payments based on some measure of disability have been abandoned; whether some element of a cost of care payment is under consideration within her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter.[35831/24]