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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (25 May 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: Embodied Carbon in construction materials makes a significant contribution to the lifetime carbon emissions of new buildings. These embodied carbon emissions are being addressed by the Climate Action Plan, the review of the EU Construction Products Regulation and the review of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive. The Government is committed to working with industry stakeholders...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Data Protection (25 May 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: My Department publishes public information on a number of social media platforms including Meta. My Department does not comment on operational security matters as it would be inappropriate to disclose information that may in any way assist those with malicious intent. I can say however that my Department has policies in place to cover social media usage. My Department also continues to work...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Programme (24 May 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: The Government's Legislation Programme for summer 2023, published in April, includes the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill 2023 for priority drafting in this Oireachtas session. Policy is being developed as a matter of priority and draft legislative provisions and administrative measures are being examined to help a tenant to buy their rented home on the basis of a landlord...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: House Sales (24 May 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: The report of the Working Group I established to examine defects in housing estimated that of apartments and duplexes (or associated common areas) constructed between 1991 and 2013, the number that may be affected by one or more fire safety, structural safety or water ingress defects, is likely to range between 62,500 and 100,000 apartments/duplexes. The Working Group did not specify any...

Accommodation Needs for New Arrivals: Statements (23 May 2023)

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Accommodation Needs for New Arrivals: Statements (23 May 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: I thank my colleague, the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, for leading out on this important debate and these important statements in the House. I agree with every word he has uttered and I am grateful for the opportunity to outline the role of my Department and the local government sector, which plays an important role and which I work with on a daily basis in the provision of accommodation and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Waterways Issues (23 May 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: Waterways Ireland is a North South Body responsible for the management and maintenance of more than 1000km of Ireland's inland waterways. They include the Shannon, Shannon Erne Waterway, Erne System, the Barrow, the Royal and Grand Canals and the Lower Bann Navigation. It is funded by my Department and the Department for Infrastructure in Northern Ireland. The information requested in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (23 May 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: Data in relation to housing commencements, broken down by local authority area, is published by my Department on a monthly basis and can be accessed via the following link: www.gov.ie/en/publication/a5cb1-construction-activity-starts / Data in relation to new dwelling completions, broken down by Local Electoral Area is published by the CSO on a quarterly basis and can be accessed via the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (23 May 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: My Department publishes quarterly Social Housing Construction Status Reports (CSR), which provide details of social housing developments that have been completed, are under construction or are progressing through the various stages of design and tender processes. The full set of published CSRs, can be found on my Department's website at the following link:...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (23 May 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: My Department publishes quarterly Social Housing Construction Status Reports (CSR), which provide details of social housing developments that have been completed, are under construction or are progressing through the various stages of design and tender processes. The full set of published CSRs, can be found on my Department's website at the following link:...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (23 May 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: My Department publishes quarterly Social Housing Construction Status Reports (CSR), which provide details of social housing developments that have been completed, are under construction or are progressing through the various stages of design and tender processes. The full set of published CSRs, can be found on my Department's website at the following link:...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (23 May 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: I propose to take Questions Nos. 387 and 416 together. Local Authorities are required to submit an annual return to my Department providing information on the operation of the Derelict Sites Act 1990 (the Act) in their functional areas. The information requested in relation to properties acquired under the Act in respect of 2022 is provided in the Table below. My Department does not collect...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (23 May 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: My Department publishes quarterly Social Housing Construction Status Reports (CSR), which provide details of social housing developments that have been completed, are under construction or are progressing through the various stages of design and tender processes. The full set of published CSRs can be found at this link: www.gov.ie/en/collection/cb885-social-housing-construction-p...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (23 May 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: Housing for All (published in September 2021) provides a new housing plan for Ireland to 2030 with the overall objective that every citizen in the State should have access to good quality homes through a steady supply of housing in the right locations, with economic, social and environmental sustainability built into the system. The strategy commits to increasing the housing options available...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Parks and Wildlife Service (23 May 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: The public consultation for the review of the Open Seasons Order was published on the 22ndMarch and was open to everyone to put their views forward on an individual or organisational basis until 3rdMay 2023. A productive stakeholder engagement meeting was held in Dublin on Friday 21stApril with stakeholder groups invited across various interests such as hunting, farming, eNGOs &...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (23 May 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: The Government recently approved the development of a new Cost Rental Subvention Scheme with the objective of further improving the viability and increasing the supply of Cost Rental homes at scale, targeting rents which are at least 25% below prevailing market rates. In this regard, the Government has agreed to commit, subject to further discussion with the Minister for Public Expenditure,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (23 May 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: The Government recently approved the development of a new Cost Rental Subvention Scheme with the objective of further improving the viability and increasing the supply of Cost Rental homes at scale, targeting rents which are at least 25% below prevailing market rates. In this regard, the Government has agreed to commit, subject to further discussion with the Minister for Public Expenditure,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wastewater Treatment (23 May 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: Uisce Éireann has statutory responsibility for all aspects of water services planning, delivery and operation at national, regional and local levels and as Minister I have no function in relation to this matter, under section 7 of the Water Services (No. 2) Act 2013. Uisce Éireann has established a dedicated team to deal with representations and queries from public...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (23 May 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: Following on from the Government decision of the 30 November 2021 in respect of the enhanced Defective Concrete Blocks Grant scheme, the Government approved the Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks (DCB) Bill 2022 on 21 June and the Bill passed through both Houses of the Oireachtas and was subsequently signed into law by the President on the 23 July, 2022....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tax Code (23 May 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: I refer to the reply to Question No.101 of 18 May 2023 which sets out the position in this matter.