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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (20 Feb 2025)

James Browne: I propose to take questions Nos. 230, 247, 248, 259 and 260 together. The Tenant in Situ Acquisitions Programme was introduced by way of Government decision in 2023. It was originally intended as a short term response to the reported uplift in sales by landlords of homes which were within the HAP and RAS schemes in order to prevent potential homelessness where other solutions could not be...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (20 Feb 2025)

James Browne: I propose to take questions Nos. 231 and 232 together. The Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Act 2022 (the Act) was commenced on 22 June 2023 which contains the enhanced grant scheme and adopted the related Regulations on 29 June 2023. The new scheme is now open to applications in five counties: Clare, Donegal, Limerick, Mayo and Sligo with...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (20 Feb 2025)

James Browne: The Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Act 2022 (the Act) was commenced on 22 June 2023 which contains the enhanced grant scheme and adopted the related Regulations on 29 June 2023. The Housing Agency acts as agent on behalf of the local authorities under the grant scheme. Once a home has met the damage threshold for entry to the scheme, the Housing...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (20 Feb 2025)

James Browne: The Cost Rental Tenant In-Situ (CRTiS) scheme was introduced on 1 April 2023 for tenants in private rental homes who are not in receipt of social housing supports but are at risk of homelessness because a landlord has served a valid Notice of Termination due to an intention to sell the property. The Local Authority conducts the initial assessment for eligibility of the tenant for this...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (20 Feb 2025)

James Browne: My Department provides funding to local authorities under the Disabled Persons Grants scheme to carry out works on social housing stock to address the needs of older people, people with a disability or overcrowded situations. Typical works include adaptations such as stair-lifts, level deck showers, ramps and grab rails, widening door opening widths and improving circulation spaces....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (20 Feb 2025)

James Browne: Addressing vacancy and making efficient use of existing housing stock is a key priority for Government, as set out in Pathway 4 of Housing for All. Vacancy is a complex issue and there are a number of reasons why properties may become vacant or derelict. The findings of Census 2022 provided a range of such reasons, including that the previous owner is deceased, is living with relatives,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (20 Feb 2025)

James Browne: Details on the number of households qualified for social housing support in each local authority administrative area is provided in the annual statutory Summary of Social Housing Assessments (SSHA). The most recently published summary for all counties, conducted in November 2023, is available on my Department's website at The report shows that there were 967 households qualified for social...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Protection (20 Feb 2025)

James Browne: Wildlife crime is a very serious issue, which may encompass breaches of national, European and international legislation that protects wildlife species. Combatting wildlife crime is a core mandate of the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) in its mission to ‘protect nature’. That is why a dedicated Wildlife Crime Directorate was established in NPWS to address wildlife...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (20 Feb 2025)

James Browne: The Ready to Build Scheme, funded by the Croí Cónaithe Towns Fund, to support addressing vacancy, was launched in September 2022. Under the Scheme, local authorities make vacant serviced sites in towns and villages available to potential individual purchasers to build a home. Under the scheme, local authorities identify suitable sites in their ownership or purchase sites in towns...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (20 Feb 2025)

James Browne: Housing completions are published by the CSO on a quarterly basis and are available on its website at . Completions disaggregated by dwelling type (scheme house, single house, apartment) are available at local authority level at . Data disaggregated by dwelling type at local electoral area are not collected. The total number of completions by local electoral area are available at .

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (20 Feb 2025)

James Browne: Data on new dwelling completions are published by local authority level on a quarterly basis by the CSO on its website at the following link: data.cso.ie/table/NDQ06. To note this data on home completions is not gathered or published by reference to the areas of Dáil constituencies, and Dublin West covers parts of both Dublin City and Fingal. The data are disaggregated by local...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (20 Feb 2025)

James Browne: My Department collects, collates and publishes data on a local authority basis. My Department publishes comprehensive programme-level statistics on a quarterly basis on social and affordable housing delivery activity in each local authority. This data is available to the end of Q3 2024, and is published on the statistics page of my Department’s website, at the following link:...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (20 Feb 2025)

James Browne: My Department operates a number of funding programmes that assist Local Authorities to work in partnership with Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs) to construct and purchase homes and make them available for Social Housing. The Capital Advance Leasing Facility (CALF) is a funding stream exclusively provided to AHBs by local authorities to facilitate the funding of construction, acquisition or...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (20 Feb 2025)

James Browne: My Department publishes the Social Housing Construction Status Report (CSR), which 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 3 2024 and it shows that there were 543 social homes on site and at...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (20 Feb 2025)

James Browne: Affordability and the chance to own a home is at the heart of the Government’s housing policy. All local authorities, including Mayo County Council, have prepared a Housing Delivery Action Plan which sets information on their intended social and affordable housing delivery over the period 2022-2026, in line with targets set under Housing for All. The Plans have been published on...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (20 Feb 2025)

James Browne: There are currently two separate statutory schemes in existence, supporting the remediation of private dwellings namely, the Pyrite Remediation Scheme (PRS) and the Defective Concrete Blocks (DCB) Grant Scheme. The PRS relates to pyrite in the floor slab while the DCB relates to dwellings which are damaged due to the use of defective concrete blocks containing excessive amounts of mica or...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (20 Feb 2025)

James Browne: My Department does not collate information on applications received. This information may be available from Waterford City and County Council directly. My Department publishes comprehensive programme-level statistics on a quarterly basis on social and affordable housing delivery activity in each local authority. This data is available to the end of Q3 2024, and is published on the statistics...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Service (20 Feb 2025)

James Browne: I propose to take Questions Nos. 250 and 251 together. The information requested is being compiled and will be forwarded to the Deputy in accordance with Standing Orders.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Heritage Projects (20 Feb 2025)

James Browne: The responsibility for the provision of suitable buildings for the storage of the national collections lies with the Office of Public Works and the Department of Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport, which has responsibility for the National Cultural Institutions referenced. I can confirm, however, that a new twenty year lease has recently been agreed for the Cultural Resource...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Regeneration Projects (20 Feb 2025)

James Browne: A flagship element of Project Ireland 2040, the €2 billion Urban Regeneration and Development Fund (URDF) is supporting a programme of significant transformational capital projects that will contribute to the regeneration and rejuvenation of Ireland’s five cities and other large towns, in line with the objectives of the National Planning Framework and the National Development...