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Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Report Stage (7 Jul 2015)

Barry Cowen: ..., I support the proposed amendment pending a better explanation from the Minister of State on what exactly is entailed. Is it that the Government proposes to levy local authorities for hoarding land, despite their best intentions to do otherwise? There must be a better and more succinct and clear way in which one can adjudicate on the local authorities' performance in their efforts to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (14 Nov 2018)

Barry Cowen: 72. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of publicly owned lands suitable for residential units; the number of residential units built on publicly owned land in each of the past five years; the steps he has taken to enhance the construction of residential units on public land; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43921/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Availability (20 Jun 2018)

Barry Cowen: 51. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of publicly owned lands suitable for residential units; the number of residential units built on publicly owned land in each of the past five years; the steps he has taken to further enhance the construction of residential units on public land; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21671/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (17 Apr 2018)

Barry Cowen: 1620. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of residential units that have been constructed on State owned lands in each of the years 2012 to 2017 and to date in 2018; the number of residential units in the planning process to be built on State owned land; the number of residential units with An Bord Pleanála to be built on State owned land; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: State Properties (19 Oct 2017)

Barry Cowen: 273. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide estimates by local authority in terms of hectares and as a percentage of total development land, from State land management studies his Department has undertaken in preparation of the national planning framework of lands and development sites owned by the State either directly or indirectly and that is...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Commercial Rates (11 Jul 2017)

Barry Cowen: ...of applying commercial rates to development sites with or without a building or structure zoned as suitable for non agricultural development including commercial, industrial, residential and mixed land use; his views on whether this could be a means of introducing a site value tax to reduce land hoarding and reduce speculative investment in development land; and the estimated revenue...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (2 Dec 2014)

Barry Cowen: 556. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form on a county basis the total value of land accumulated under the land aggregation scheme in 2015. [46290/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (31 Jan 2018)

Barry Cowen: I welcome the elaboration. Will the equity stake in the lands constitute on-balance sheet expenditure for the Government? Does the Minister intend to extend the scheme to private lands and, if so, what is the timeframe for that process?

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Just Transition Fund (31 Mar 2021)

Barry Cowen: 237. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of the provisionally funded projects based on the utilisation of Bord na Móna land in which agreement had been reached with Bord na Móna for that land use in each instance. [17133/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Vacant Sites Levy (13 Jul 2017)

Barry Cowen: 60. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on further sanctions and disincentives against land hoarding and speculation in development land, such as some form of site value tax; his further views on whether the vacant site tax is unlikely to be effective. [33407/17]

Social and Affordable Housing Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Dec 2016)

Barry Cowen: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Bill which attempts to bring forward compulsory purchase orders, CPOs, for unzoned land for social housing construction, to change the rules determining compensation for local authority CPOs, to introduce rent certainty provisions and to bring forward the vacant site levy by two years. The Bill proposes to introduce the recommendations of the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (9 Apr 2019)

Barry Cowen: 78. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the role he is playing to facilitate the construction of affordable housing on State-owned land; the number of housing units built on such land to date; the proportion of units that are deemed affordable; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10566/19]

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (8 Jul 2015)

Barry Cowen: The Minister of State failed to respond to my question on whether it will be a prerequisite for the imposition of a levy that the lands, ground or property in question be zoned for residential development. Will it be the case that the levy cannot be applied to land that is not zoned in the development plan of a local authority area?

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Mar 2021)

Barry Cowen: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Bill, the purpose of which is to place the Land Development Agency on a statutory footing and to confer on it various powers. Housing was the dominant issue in the general election, and it was the dominant issue in the lifetime of the previous Government. It remains a dominant issue in society. Of course, it has been challenged by issues resulting...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (25 May 2017)

Barry Cowen: ...Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to reintroduce affordable housing schemes of the type suspended in 2012 for owner-occupiers and or renters rather than providing public land subsidies to developers in the hope that they will provide cheaper housing to home buyers as appears to be the model proposed in the land bank initiative. [25036/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Properties Data (17 Apr 2018)

Barry Cowen: 313. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of State owned properties in each county, including property owned by local authorities; the acreage of land owned by the State in each county; the acreage of land owned by the State in each county that is suitable for residential construction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16620/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (17 Apr 2018)

Barry Cowen: 1496. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount spent on constructing residential units on State owned land in each of the years 2012 to 2017 and to date in 2018; the model used to construct residential units on State owned land; if a form of public private partnership is used; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16622/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: State Properties Data (17 Apr 2018)

Barry Cowen: 1619. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of State owned properties in each county including property owned by local authorities; the acreage of land owned by the State in each county; the acreage of land owned by the State in each county that is suitable for residential construction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16624/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Land Development Agency (1 Oct 2019)

Barry Cowen: 96. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the acreage of State land managed by the OPW transferred to the Land Development Agency for the development of residential units; the number of units that have been delivered; the number of acres that will be transferred to the agency in the near future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39611/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Land Development Agency (14 Nov 2019)

Barry Cowen: 3. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the acreage of State land managed by the OPW that has been transferred to the Land Development Agency for the development of residential units; the number of units that have been delivered; the number of acres that will be transferred to the agency in the near future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46825/19]