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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Funding (10 May 2017)

Barry Cowen: 142. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 422 of 21 March 2017, if the pre-2014 figures include spending by local authorities from their own revenues on capital housing projects; and if not, the estimated amount each local authority spent from their own resources on capital housing projects for each year. [22374/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Provision (10 May 2017)

Barry Cowen: 143. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of new apartments and apartment buildings that have been completed and the number for which planning permission has been sought since the introduction of the new national apartment planning guidelines reducing the cost of apartment building; and if his Department or a body under its aegis has undertaken...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (10 May 2017)

Barry Cowen: 144. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 148 of 9 March 2017, when the figures on Part V acquisitions will be published; the number of units acquired under Part V in 2016 and to date in 2017 in order that the Houses of Oireachtas can assess the progress being made as part of the Rebuilding Ireland Action Plan for...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Building Energy Rating Administration (10 May 2017)

Barry Cowen: 233. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources to set down the number of building energy rating certificates issued for new housing in each of the years 2007 to 2016 and to date in 2017. [22379/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (11 May 2017)

Barry Cowen: 123. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the amount allocated to each local authority in each of the years 2014 to 2016 for Traveller housing; and the amount that was recouped by each local authority. [22438/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (11 May 2017)

Barry Cowen: 128. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on concerns expressed by local authorities (details supplied) that councils are at risk of being sued by persons that were turned down for planning or persons that wanted to sell sites due to the application of locals only planning permission criteria. [22509/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (11 May 2017)

Barry Cowen: 130. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on whether local needs criteria contained in a number of county development plans for the granting of planning permission for one-off dwellings in rural areas are compatible with Articles 43 and 56 of the EC Treaty. [22517/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Funding (11 May 2017)

Barry Cowen: 129. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the reason for the extremely low allocation to Galway city local authority for the capital housing programme, which is 97% below 2009 levels. [22516/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Building Regulations Compliance (11 May 2017)

Barry Cowen: 131. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if a new residential development has to be fully compliant with schedule 2 of the building regulations to attain a certification of compliance and a certificate of completion; and if it is possible to be partly non-compliant, excluding those for which there is an exemption attained with some standard before a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Building Regulations (11 May 2017)

Barry Cowen: 132. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on whether the building energy regulation cert database provides an accurate data source to count the completion of new build dwellings on an annual basis, in view of the fact that all new builds require a BER since 2007. [22520/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Electoral Reform (11 May 2017)

Barry Cowen: 133. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the steps he will take to update electoral law in view of the impact of digital spending in the UK; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22544/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Election Expenditure (11 May 2017)

Barry Cowen: 166. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps the Standards in Public Office Commission will take to address digital spending in election campaigns; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22543/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Private Rented Accommodation (16 May 2017)

Barry Cowen: 219. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on whether the Housing (Rent Books) Regulations 1993 are arcane and require updating, in view of the widespread non-compliance with rent book rules and entitlements; and his further views on whether the regulations were designed for payment of rent in cash rather than via electronic transfer and direct...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Building Regulations Compliance (16 May 2017)

Barry Cowen: 220. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the cost of introducing a new system of inspection by an authorised person in each local authority to ensure compliance with fire safety and building regulations for all properties newly offered as private rental accommodation. [22834/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (16 May 2017)

Barry Cowen: 223. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his Department has sought a legal opinion as to whether Part V obligations on developers could amount to state aid for the purposes of EU law or could amount to a public works contract for the purposes of EU law as was considered by the European Court of Justice in the Flemish decree case; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (16 May 2017)

Barry Cowen: 224. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of CPO decisions made in each year since 2008 and to date in 2017 under the housing Act. [22889/17]

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (17 May 2017)

Barry Cowen: I ask that Deputy O'Dowd speak to the amendments.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (17 May 2017)

Barry Cowen: We have to deal with all of these amendments, if Deputy O'Dowd does not mind.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (17 May 2017)

Barry Cowen: The Minister of State might grow a few inches in the next few weeks.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (17 May 2017)

Barry Cowen: What Ministers?