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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (9 Mar 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 232. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which his Department has identified issues deemed to impede the provision of much-needed affordable housing on State lands throughout the country; if he expects to be in a position to address the issue in due course; if the issues that currently impede a speedy and efficient public authority response to the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (9 Mar 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 233. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which the provision of utilities such as electricity and water to new houses is currently limiting progress in the construction sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12215/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (9 Mar 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 234. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the total number of houses delivered/made available to each local authority housing applicants in each of the past two years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12216/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (9 Mar 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 235. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which it is expected to address the large numbers of applicants for local authority houses currently on waiting lists over the next two years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12217/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (9 Mar 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 240. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which he can identify a suite of emergency measures such as the provision of modular houses, log-cabins or other alternatives including the liberalisation of planning applications in rural areas in order to alleviate the housing crisis for locals as well as refugees in order to urgently address the situation of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (9 Mar 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 236. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the degree to which the various forms of assistance available for first-time house buyers are upgrading satisfactorily without contributing to house price inflation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12218/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (9 Mar 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 237. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the action that can be taken to enable housing to become affordable given that persons can no longer live in Ireland due to the high cost of mortgages and rents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12219/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (9 Mar 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 238. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of planning permissions applied for and refused by county in each of the past four years to date; the way such figures will inform housing policy going forward, with particular reference to giving the local population a chance to live in their local area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12220/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (9 Mar 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 239. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of housing applicants currently in receipt of HAP or rent support; the extent to which progress is being made to meet their housing needs directly rather than through various support schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12221/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (9 Mar 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 241. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a number of private/subsidised sites might be provided in urban and rural areas as a matter of urgency to confront the ever increasingly serious housing crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12223/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (9 Mar 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 242. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if an audit of vacant publicly owned buildings has been carried out or can be carried out with a view to providing emergency housing for local people and immigrants who may have a need for the urgent availability for housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12224/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (9 Mar 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 243. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which he can approach all of the problems with a view to accessing currently empty vacant accommodation with a potential for use in a housing emergency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12225/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (9 Mar 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 244. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if and when a person (details supplied) might expect to receive their passport in respect of which they made application online on 1 January 2023; if any outstanding issues can be resolved in early date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12226/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (9 Mar 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 245. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the current position in regard to the issue of a passport in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12231/23]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Vacant Properties (9 Mar 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 253. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the total number of vacant, disused or decommissioned properties owned by his Department which potentially could be used for accommodation purposes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12207/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (9 Mar 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 266. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which emergency measures are being taken to ensure the availability of the adequate number of school places at primary and second level, with particular reference to the need to meet any such challenges in September 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12208/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (9 Mar 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 267. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will indicate the position arising from challenges experienced in the current year throughout North Kildare and nationally in the school transport sector; if she is in a position to ensure that no school buses pass children who could be accommodated if space on a bus is available, or if a larger bus might suffice, if children who have...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (9 Mar 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 268. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether the current review of school transport might entail facilitating children in September 2023 who cannot gain access to their nearest school due to a shortage of school places but who would then not qualify for school transport as they would not be attending their nearest school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12210/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (9 Mar 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 269. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans in hand to address school transport for children attending school in Maynooth from Straffan-Rathcoffey who have been without a service this year, given the demand for such a service; if efforts will be made to facilitate a school bus given the local demand for such a service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12211/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (9 Mar 2023)

Bernard Durkan: 270. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if and when a person (details supplied) might expect to receive notice to the effect that a school place is available for their daughter; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12227/23]