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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...

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

James Browne: I propose to take Questions Nos. 257 and 258 together. I refer to my reply to Dáil Question No. 472 of 18 January which sets out the position in this matter.

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

James Browne: I refer to my reply to Question No. 217 of 13 February 2025 which sets out the position on this matter.

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

James Browne: As detailed under Housing for All, the Government plans to deliver 54,000 affordable homes, including 36,000 affordable purchase and 18,000 cost rental homes, by 2030. A comprehensive implementation strategy is in place to support the various affordable housing schemes now being delivered by a range of delivery partners. My Department publishes comprehensive programme-level statistics...

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

James Browne: As detailed under Housing for All, the Government plans to deliver 18,000 cost rental homes by 2030. A comprehensive implementation strategy is in place to support the various affordable housing schemes now being delivered by a range of delivery partners. Since its introduction in 2021 to end Q3 2024, 2,640 Cost Rental homes in the State have been delivered by Approved Housing Bodies,...

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

James Browne: Group water schemes are community-owned and community-run enterprises and accordingly I have no function in their day-to-day management or operation. However, my Department does work in partnership with the National Federation of Group Water Schemes (NFGWS), who are the national representative body, to support the group water scheme sector. I can confirm that my Department worked very...

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

James Browne: The Government is acutely aware of the housing challenges faced by many sectors of society. Housing for All, Ireland's housing plan to 2030, is the most ambitious and comprehensive housing plan in the history of the State. The Plan contains a suite of actions that have and continue to increase the provision of housing through accelerating supply and increasing the affordability of homes for...

Housing Crisis: Motion [Private Members] (19 Feb 2025)

James Browne: I thank the Social Democrats for tabling the motion. We all have a shared ambition of solving the housing crisis. We may come at it from different angles but keeping the debate going is very important. I will address the comment Deputy Bacik made yesterday on me not being present for Private Members' business last week. The Cabinet was sitting at the time. That is where I was, but two...