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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance Applications (11 Jun 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 939. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an application for a disability allowance will be approved for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24185/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (11 Jun 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 996. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which he has investigated the possibility of providing a State backed loan scheme similar to the old local loans fund by which young couples and families might be in the position to meet their own housing need as opposed to being forced to remain in high rent accommodation interminably; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (11 Jun 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 997. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if all housing support schemes available will be examined with a view to assessing their efficacy and possible replacement in order to ensure public confidence among young couples and families seeking to avail of local authority or affordable housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24299/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homelessness Strategy (11 Jun 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 998. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which his Department has examined the local authority housing waiting lists with a view to devising a system to address the situation of young families becoming homeless; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24300/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homelessness Strategy (11 Jun 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 999. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which provision is readily available to meet the housing needs of single men or women who may be homeless or become so in view of their circumstances; the extent to which schemes in operation are capable of addressing these issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24301/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homelessness Strategy (11 Jun 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 1002. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if an emergency housing programme will be introduced to combat the threat of homelessness nationally; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24304/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (11 Jun 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 1000. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if credit will be given to applicants in rental accommodation when assessing their eligibility for Rebuilding Ireland home loans on the basis that they have already proven their ability to make repayments and that the deposit required by them be reduced accordingly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24302/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (11 Jun 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 1001. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applicants on the various local authority housing waiting lists who have been housed in the past 12 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24303/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Expenditure (11 Jun 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 1003. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of funding spent on rent support, HAP or other housing assistance schemes in lieu of local authority housing in each of the past five years to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24305/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Data (11 Jun 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 1004. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons registered as homeless by the various local authorities throughout the greater Dublin area; the number who have been successfully housed in each of the past five years to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24306/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Expenditure (11 Jun 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 1005. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which funding earmarked for the provision of affordable or local authority houses has been spent under various headings in each of the past four years to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24307/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (11 Jun 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 1006. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of local authority houses under construction; when they are likely to be ready for occupation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24308/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (11 Jun 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 1007. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the degree to which particular attention can be given to ensure that the rural indigenous population is able to obtain planning permission in their own area within reason; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24309/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation Provision (11 Jun 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 1008. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of emergency housing units available for use by each local authority to meet the growing housing requirements by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24310/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Arts Funding (12 Jun 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 26. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the extent to which extra expenditure is planned for the arts with particular reference to the need to maximise opportunities for employment in the sector and enhance the image of Ireland at home and abroad with obvious economic benefit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24296/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Arts Funding (12 Jun 2019)

Bernard Durkan: The purpose of the question is to encourage investment in the arts at local and national level, with a view to enhancing the country's image in the arts world in general and to encourage interest at local and national level.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Arts Funding (12 Jun 2019)

Bernard Durkan: I thank the Minister for her informative reply. I ask the degree to which philanthropists can be encouraged to assist in the very wide programme at both local and national level. I also ask the degree to which young people, through the schools perhaps, can be encouraged to take an interest in the arts with a view to participation in the future, to becoming directly involved or to achieving...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Arts Funding (12 Jun 2019)

Bernard Durkan: I ask the degree to which the Department continues to monitor the progress of the programme under the various headings, with a view to expanding and increasing employment in the arts and improving the image nationally and internationally, not that it needs improving but in order to get appreciation from a wider audience. To what extent is that happening? Are there measures that might be...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions (Resumed): Heritage Sites (12 Jun 2019)

Bernard Durkan: 29. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the extent to which preservation or reconstruction works are in hand at various sites or buildings nationally with particular reference to the need to preserve such locations and buildings for posterity through education; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24295/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions (Resumed): Heritage Sites (12 Jun 2019)

Bernard Durkan: This question seeks to ascertain the extent to which preservation or restoration works are in hand at various historical buildings or sites throughout the country, with a view to availing of every opportunity to make them safe, preserve them and make them available for tourism and educational purposes.