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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (1 Jul 2025)

James Browne: This Government is committed to delivering more homes and has clearly recognised that a step-up in terms of scale and pace of delivery of all housing, including affordable and social housing, is required. This ambition to do scale up delivery is evident in the recently approved Revised National Planning Framework, but it will be important that as we zone more land, that the servicing of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Public Private Partnerships (1 Jul 2025)

James Browne: I propose to take Questions Nos. 28, 31, 63, 82, 98, 108, 432 and 470 together. The clear focus of this Government is to increase the supply of new build social and affordable homes. This is key to addressing the housing challenge and in particular preventing and ultimately eliminating long term homelessness, and that unquestionably must be the priority for all local authorities. The...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (1 Jul 2025)

James Browne: Firstly, it is important to acknowledge that Local Property Tax (LPT) represented on average just 6% of total local authority revenue income in 2023. In general terms, funding from Central Government to local authorities increased by 83% from €3.69 billion in 2018 to almost €6.73 billion in 2023. There are variances across the country in terms of LPT levels but it is...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services (1 Jul 2025)

James Browne: This Government is delivering a sustainable funding path to further enhance the ongoing significant improvements in our public water and wastewater services. The Uisce Éireann Strategic Funding Plan 2025-2029 was approved in November 2024 and sets out an ambitious capital investment plan to make necessary improvements to water and wastewater infrastructure including new capacity to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (1 Jul 2025)

James Browne: The tables below detail the number of live applications, at various stages of approval, currently being processed by my Department on behalf of Galway City and County Council. Galway City Council live applications under SHIP Stage 1 Stage 2 Stage 3 Stage 4/Single Stage/Turnkey 2 5 0 2 Galway City Council...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (1 Jul 2025)

James Browne: On 10 June 2025, the Government approved stronger tenancy protections and greater certainty for the rental sector, including the introduction of a national rent control, as part of a suite of measures to boost the supply of new homes and secure and grow the availability of rental accommodation. The Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 2025 was signed into law on 19 June 2025. The Act...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (1 Jul 2025)

James Browne: The timing between a planning permission being granted and construction commencing is influenced by myriad factors, many of which are often project specific. These can include, among others, a developer's capacity to take on multiple concurrent projects, the time taken to deliver supporting infrastructure in advance of commencement, ability to secure finance, not proceeding because the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Protection (1 Jul 2025)

James Browne: The National Parks and Wildlife Service of my Department is currently undertaking an important project to update wildlife legislation. This includes the Wildlife Act 1976, the Wildlife (Amendment) Act 2000, the European Communities (Birds and Natural Habitats) Regulations 2011 and significant regulations made under these provisions. The project is examining closely the effectiveness of our...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Building Regulations (1 Jul 2025)

James Browne: The Building Regulations set out minimum standards for the design and construction of buildings and works to ensure the health and safety of people in and around buildings. The primary responsibility for compliance with the requirements of the Building Regulations rests with the designers, builders and owners of buildings. Following the completion of a comprehensive review of Part B (Fire...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (1 Jul 2025)

James Browne: I propose to take Questions Nos. 40, 49 and 51 together. My Department provides Exchequer funding to local authorities under the Housing Adaptation Grants for Older People and Disabled People scheme, to assist people in private houses to make their accommodation more suitable for their needs. The suite of grants include the Housing Adaptation Grant for Disabled People, the Mobility Aids...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (1 Jul 2025)

James Browne: I propose to take Questions Nos. 41 and 77 together. Housing for All includes a commitment to review income eligibility for social housing. From this review, completed in November 2021, it was recommended moving five local authorities from Band 3 to Band 2, ensuring the income eligibility thresholds better reflect housing costs in those counties. Government also agreed to increase the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (1 Jul 2025)

James Browne: The response to Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (DSGBV) is a cross-Departmental and multi-agency issue, with overall policy coordinated by the Department of Justice. Responsibility for the development and provision of services to support victims of domestic violence, including the provision and operational funding of domestic violence refuge services, rests with my colleague the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (1 Jul 2025)

James Browne: The Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) scheme continues to plays a vital role in housing eligible families and individuals. At the end of Q4 2024, over 125,000 HAP tenancies had been set up since the scheme commenced, of which there were 53,742 households actively in receipt of HAP support. An average of 156 new HAP tenancies was set up each week in 2024, indicating that the scheme continues to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (1 Jul 2025)

James Browne: While the Planning and Development Act 2024 (Act of 2024) was enacted in October 2024, it is in the process of being commenced. The provisions of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended (Act of 2000), and associated Planning and Development Regulations 2001, as amended (Regulations of 2001) remain in force until the relevant sections of the Act of 2024 are commenced and the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (1 Jul 2025)

James Browne: My Department has introduced a range of measures to enable and support the delivery of apartments, including through planning reform, zoning, financing, rental sector reforms, cost of construction measures and other targeted measures. The impact of the current rent control system on the supply of new homes for rent is a key consideration for this Government and recent changes announced...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (1 Jul 2025)

James Browne: I propose to take Questions Nos. 47 and 429 together. Within the Programme for Government 2025 – Securing Ireland’s Future, a commitment was specifically made to continue to accelerate social housing regeneration schemes in Dublin. My Department remains committed to supporting regeneration across towns and cities. The prioritisation and project plans for the regeneration of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (1 Jul 2025)

James Browne: The system of funding local government in Ireland is a complex one, as local authorities derive their income from a range of sources including commercial rates, charges for goods and services provided, Local Property Tax and grants from various government departments and state agencies for both Current and Capital purposes. A fundamental prerequisite for effective local democracy is that...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (1 Jul 2025)

James Browne: My Department publishes the Social Housing Construction Status Report (CSR), on a quarterly basis. The CSR provides details of social housing developments and their location that have been completed, are under construction or are progressing through the various stages of the design and tender processes. The most recent publication was for Quarter 4 2024, and is accessible on my Department's...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services (1 Jul 2025)

James Browne: I propose to take Questions Nos. 53 and 88 together. Uisce Éireann has statutory responsibility for all aspects of water services planning, delivery and operation at national, regional and local levels. The scope, prioritisation and progression of individual projects is a matter for Uisce Éireann and is approved through its own internal governance structures. Uisce Éireann...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (1 Jul 2025)

James Browne: I propose to take Questions Nos. 54 and 430 together. My Department is currently undertaking a focused review of the 2006 Wind Energy Development Guidelines. The review is addressing a number of key aspects of the Guidelines including noise, setback distance, shadow flicker, community obligation, community dividend and grid connections. My Department, in conjunction with the Department...

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