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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Schemes (6 Apr 2022)

Gerald Nash: 175. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the recent European Commission recommendation urging member states to immediately repeal existing investor citizenship schemes and to ensure that strong checks are in place to address the risks posed by investor residence schemes (details supplied); her plans to immediately repeal all existing Irish schemes in...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Schemes (6 Apr 2022)

Gerald Nash: 177. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on a recent report by the European Parliament (details supplied) which calls for the European Union to ban the sale of citizenship by investment schemes and to regulate residence by investment schemes; her plans to ban the sale of citizenship by investment schemes and to regulate residence by investment schemes; and...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2022)

Gerald Nash: I might beg the indulgence of the Minister and Chairman for a few moments because my question does not relate directly to excise duty but to additional factors that inform the cost to the consumer of fuel and energy. Many of us, at least those of us on the Opposition benches, have been arguing for some months that the Government should seek a derogation from the VAT directive to allow the...

Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Second Stage (5 Apr 2022)

Gerald Nash: I very much welcome the Bill. As the Minister knows, it has been a very long time coming. Many of us in the Chamber are around politics a long number of years. I would be interested to see how many times the electoral commission has been mentioned in the Official Report. I remember in 2008 and also in 2012 my colleague and a fellow Cork man, former Deputy Ciarán Lynch, developed two...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (5 Apr 2022)

Gerald Nash: 346. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the roll-out of the provision of a first home market based on the shared equity scheme as set out in Housing for All; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18004/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (5 Apr 2022)

Gerald Nash: 348. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the development of a youth homelessness strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18006/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (5 Apr 2022)

Gerald Nash: 349. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the progress of the expansion of street outreach services to engage with rough sleepers in key urban areas outside Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18007/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (5 Apr 2022)

Gerald Nash: 360. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress of the development of a national policy on rightsizing; his plans to support and incentivise rightsizing on a voluntary basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18018/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (5 Apr 2022)

Gerald Nash: 352. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the reform of the differential rents scheme and the planned introduction of a national scheme to standardise differential rents across the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18010/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Measures (5 Apr 2022)

Gerald Nash: 347. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on his plans to legislate through the Residential Tenancies Acts for default conciliation as part of the dispute resolution process within the Residential Tenancies Board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18005/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (5 Apr 2022)

Gerald Nash: 350. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the review of the Housing Agency Acquisition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18008/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (5 Apr 2022)

Gerald Nash: 351. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the preparation of housing delivery plans to include social and affordable housing delivery by each local authority; if each local authority has furnished his Department with these plans; when he plans to publish housing delivery action plans for each local authority; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (5 Apr 2022)

Gerald Nash: 353. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the review of the range of housing grants available to assist with meeting specific housing needs; the changes he plans to make to the range of housing grants available on foot of that review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18011/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (5 Apr 2022)

Gerald Nash: 354. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if disability friendly housing technical advisers have been nominated in each local authority; the number of disability friendly housing technical advisers that have been nominated in each local authority in tabular form; the details of the role specification for disability friendly housing technical advisers; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (5 Apr 2022)

Gerald Nash: 355. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a quarterly report of the housing and disability steering group has been provided to each local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18013/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (5 Apr 2022)

Gerald Nash: 356. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the roll-out of the preferential caravan loan scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18014/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Policies (5 Apr 2022)

Gerald Nash: 357. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on his plans to liaise with the Northern Ireland Housing Executive in relation to the feasibility of an all-island approach to the provision of a network of transient sites across the island of Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18015/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (5 Apr 2022)

Gerald Nash: 358. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the review and consolidation of planning legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18016/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Measures (5 Apr 2022)

Gerald Nash: 359. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to commence section 9 of the Local Government Rates and other Matters Act 2019; the guidance he is issuing to local authorities to offer rates-based incentives for the conversion of suitable vacant commercial properties to residential; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18017/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (5 Apr 2022)

Gerald Nash: 361. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the introduction of a targeted energy efficiency retrofit scheme for approved housing bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18019/22]