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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Issues Facing the Residential Rental Sector: Discussion (15 Jul 2025)

Séamus McGrath: Right now, though, there is no link between the RTB and the Revenue Commissioners.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Issues Facing the Residential Rental Sector: Discussion (15 Jul 2025)

Séamus McGrath: Therefore, the RTB cannot pick up on a landlord who is not registered with it but may be paying tax. My final question is a blunt question but goes back to my earlier question about how long it takes to resolve disputes. If a tenant stops paying rent today and the landlord makes a complaint to the RTB, what is the estimated timeframe for dealing with that and getting the house back for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Issues Facing the Residential Rental Sector: Discussion (15 Jul 2025)

Séamus McGrath: It is an early stage-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Issues Facing the Residential Rental Sector: Discussion (15 Jul 2025)

Séamus McGrath: -----negotiation attempt. That is good.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Issues Facing the Residential Rental Sector: Discussion (15 Jul 2025)

Séamus McGrath: I know we are caught for time. I will pick up on the issue of resources again. I asked about them at the outset. It is critically important that additional resources are provided. It is an issue that the RTB is properly resourced in terms of landlords staying in the rental market. It is equally important from a tenant's point of view that the RTB is properly resourced. The committee...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Planning and Development (Street Furniture Fees) Regulations 2025: Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage (15 Jul 2025)

Séamus McGrath: I welcome this. It is very important that we give the businesses involved certainty up until 30 September 2026. That is very welcome. One of the positive outcomes from Covid is the fact that businesses started to utilise outdoor spaces to a far greater extent. It is welcome that they are now able to provide those facilities without incurring a licence fee. On regulation and enforcement,...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Unions (15 Jul 2025)

Séamus McGrath: 160. To ask the Minister for Finance the role credit unions play in supporting the delivery of social housing through the Credit Union Approved Housing Body Fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39014/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Tolls (15 Jul 2025)

Séamus McGrath: 294. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will request that the barrier tolls on the M7 and M8 be waived on Sunday, 20 July 2025, the day of the all-Ireland hurling final; if waiving of the fees is not possible, if he would recommend a system of online self-declaration and barrier-free travel on that day; and if it is intended to introduce barrier-free tolling on a...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (15 Jul 2025)

Séamus McGrath: 295. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there is any arts fund or other community fund to be created as part of the M28 motorway project, given it is such a large infrastructure project. [39059/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tax Yield (15 Jul 2025)

Séamus McGrath: 298. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total amount collected from each county or local authority area from motor tax in 2023 and 2024; and if he will clarify where the funding was spent. [39066/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (15 Jul 2025)

Séamus McGrath: 355. To ask the Minister for Finance the total number of renters who claimed the rent tax credit for 2022, 2023 and 2024 and the estimated percentage of those eligible to claim it in each of those years. [39018/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (15 Jul 2025)

Séamus McGrath: 357. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of families who claimed the home carer tax credit for 2022, 2023 and 2024; and the estimated percentage of those eligible to claim it in each of those years. [39050/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Vacant Properties (15 Jul 2025)

Séamus McGrath: 372. To ask the Minister for Finance the level of compliance activity in relation to the vacant homes tax; the number of cases of default that have been established; the value of penalties that have been applied in total; the average amount per property collected on the tax in 2023 and 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39647/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Sports Funding (15 Jul 2025)

Séamus McGrath: 527. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the sport capital grants process will open for new applications. [38958/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (15 Jul 2025)

Séamus McGrath: 564. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will review the Croí Cónaithe scheme or vacant property grant so that more than one grant may be payable in the case of an original single property where more than one unit is developed as part of a refurbishment; and if he will review upwards the grant amount, taking into account the inflationary pressures...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (15 Jul 2025)

Séamus McGrath: 565. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline the number of vacant, derelict or dangerous properties that each local authority has compulsorily purchased in 2023 and 2024. [38960/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Derelict Sites (15 Jul 2025)

Séamus McGrath: 596. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider transferring the derelict sites levy for collection by Revenue in the same way the residential zoned land tax is collected by Revenue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39015/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (15 Jul 2025)

Séamus McGrath: 699. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Gardaí deployed on regular policing units in each Garda division in June 2023, June 2024 and June 2025 (details supplied). [39067/25]

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Statements (10 Jul 2025)

Séamus McGrath: I thank the Minister for facilitating this debate. As many speakers have said, domestic, sexual and gender-based violence is a significant issue throughout our country. At the extreme end of it, 275 females have died violently in this country since 1996. That is a huge number. An Garda Síochána has said that in 2024, it dealt with 65,000 domestic abuse calls alone. The...