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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Vacant Properties (30 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: 132. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department intends to actively engage with lending institutions to communicate a clear set of lending policies in taking on a vacant or derelict property for the purposes of home ownership; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15867/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Vacant Properties (30 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: 134. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department will engage with lending institutions for the purposes of designing a one-lender type product for the purposes of renovation of properties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15869/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Vacant Properties (30 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: 135. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department will engage with lending institutions for the purposes of considering green lending to assist in renovating units for residential use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15870/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Housing Provision (30 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: 133. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will give consideration to the granting of a tax rebate over a period of ten years to support the conversion or renovation of multi-occupancy buildings to residential use, similar to the living city initiative scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15868/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (30 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: 157. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if, under the Croí Cónaithe towns fund scheme, he will consider including feasibility grants for the purposes of assessing the overall viability of the project, whereby such monies would ascertain the level of funding needed to inform the level of grant funding necessary to renovate a property for homeowner use;...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (30 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: 158. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if, under the Croí Cónaithe towns fund scheme, he will consider granting tranche payments to improve cashflow rather than at the end of the renovation as is currently the case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15856/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Building Regulations (30 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: 159. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider conducting a review of the relevant building regulations, that is, part B, relating to fire, and part A, relating to structure, to address challenges with renovating existing units to residential use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15857/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Building Regulations (30 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: 160. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will engage with the relevant agencies to provide specific and technical guidance documents for renovating older buildings to assist construction professionals, builders and owners to better understand buildings regulations and to achieve compliance in older buildings; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Funding (30 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: 161. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if will consider funding a campaign to promote living over the shop; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15859/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (30 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: 162. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider extending the first home scheme to include renovation projects, subject, if required, to the retention of a modest equity stake; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15860/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (30 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: 163. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider extending the repair and lease scheme to include private sector tenants as well as social tenants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15861/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Sites (30 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: 164. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider developing a national registry to identify vacant and derelict sites, with clear definitions in relation to same, for the purposes of identifying how best to utilise such properties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15862/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tax Reliefs (30 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: 165. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will engage with local authorities with a view to introducing amended rates relief for commercial property, whereby the rate of relief available on commercial property would be reduced each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15863/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (30 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: 166. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department will engage with local authorities in adopting a more proactive policy in relation to implementing compulsory purchase order powers in relation to properties that have been left vacant for a significant period of time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15864/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (30 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: 167. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider ring-fencing dedicated funding to enable local authorities to purchase and renovate vacant buildings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15865/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (30 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: 200. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will confirm that the proposal to build a new primary school in Blarney (details supplied) can now proceed to the next stage, and that an application for planning permission can now be submitted, in view of the fact that the current school has its number of pupils capped at 306, which is inadequate due to the huge increase in population...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (30 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: 292. To ask the Minister for Health what progress has been made to date between his Department and an organisation (details supplied) regarding its request for the inclusion of certified athletic therapists in the CORU regulation process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15871/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (30 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: 293. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration would be given to the inclusion of certified athletic therapists in the CORU regulation process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15872/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (30 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: 294. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to the provision of additional support staff for CORU in view of the high number of different healthcare profession applications received by the multi-profession health regulator; if there is a need to review the funding and provide additional support in order that necessary registration systems can be set up for a whole range...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (29 Mar 2023)

Colm Burke: I thank all of our guests for their presentations here this morning and for dealing with the issues being raised. I will go back to an issue I raised last week. The reason I am raising it again is that I am dealing with three individual cases in respect of Cork University Hospital, CUH. One of these people was in CUH for over 12 months when he could have been discharged within two months...