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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: An Ghaeltacht (29 Jul 2025)

James Browne: Tá na ceanglais reachtúla ábhartha lena rialaítear úsáid na Gaeilge i soláthar seirbhísí poiblí, lena n-áirítear i gceantair Ghaeltachta, leagtha amach go príomha in Achtanna na dTeangacha Oifigiúla 2003 agus 2021. Tagann an reachtaíocht sin faoi chúram mo chomhghleacaí, an tAire Forbartha Tuaithe agus Pobail...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (29 Jul 2025)

James Browne: The Capital Assistance Scheme (CAS) funding provides up to 100% capital funding to Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs) for the construction and targeted acquisition of housing for priority needs categories. While there have been no changes to the fundamental operation of CAS regarding the funding for priority needs categories nor the introduction of a prohibition on CAS acquisitions,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (29 Jul 2025)

James Browne: The development of the lands at Oscar Traynor Road is a strategically important element of Dublin City Council's social and affordable delivery programme, involving the delivery of 853 social, cost rental and affordable purchase homes with accompanying community and crèche buildings in multiple phases. It involves delivery of 343 social homes, 340 cost rental homes, and 170 affordable...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (29 Jul 2025)

James Browne: My Department publishes the Social Housing Construction Status Report (CSR), on a quarterly basis. The CSR 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 1 2025. All CSRs are available at the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Regeneration Projects (29 Jul 2025)

James Browne: My Department currently supports on-going activity and projects under the Social Housing National Regeneration Programme in the cities of Dublin, Cork and Limerick and the counties of Sligo and Kerry. To date no submissions have been received by my Department for regeneration projects in the Dublin North West Dáil constituency area for any of the years 2020 to 2025. My Department...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Regeneration Projects (29 Jul 2025)

James Browne: Within the Programme for Government 2025 – Securing Ireland’s Future, a commitment was specifically made to continue to accelerate social housing regeneration schemes in Dublin. My Department remains committed to supporting regeneration across towns and cities. The prioritisation and project plans for the regeneration of estates and flat complexes in Dublin City and other...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (29 Jul 2025)

James Browne: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1666 and 1667 together. Under the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended (the 2000 Act), all development, unless specifically exempted under the Act or associated Planning and Development Regulations 2001, as amended (2001 Regulations), requires planning permission. Section 5(1) of the 2000 Act, provides that “if any question arises as to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (29 Jul 2025)

James Browne: In accordance with the Planning and Development Act 2000 all development to which the Act applies requires planning permission, unless it is specifically exempted under the provisions of the Act or associated Regulations made thereunder. My Department currently has no plans to undertake work on planning guidelines for gaming arcades and I am satisfied that such matters are most...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (29 Jul 2025)

James Browne: A review of the current Exempted Development Regulations is ongoing and a wider public consultation on exempted development regulations will be undertaken shortly. Members of the public, State bodies and other concerned parties will be able to make submissions in writing as part of the consultation process.The Government cannot pre-empt the outcome of any consultation and therefore no...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (29 Jul 2025)

James Browne: Government maintains a strong focus on the use of vacant and underutilised relevant public land for housing having agreed the transfer of 37 sites to the Land Development Agency (LDA) for the development of affordable and social housing. Relevant public land is land owned by a relevant public body, being a local authority, Government Minister or state body listed in Schedule 1 and 2 of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (29 Jul 2025)

James Browne: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1672 and 1679 together. My Department has made €325 million available to our local authorities for their overall social housing second-hand acquisitions activity in 2025. To date, overall, local authorities have only drawdown 36% of the allocated funding available and no Local Authority has exhausted their individual allocated funding. Mayo County...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Property Registration (29 Jul 2025)

James Browne: Tailte Éireann is an independent Government agency under the aegis of my Department. Tailte Éireann provide a property registration system, property valuation service, and national mapping and surveying infrastructure for the State. Under Section 8(6) of the Tailte Éireann Act 2022, Tailte Éireann is independent in the performance of its functions. It is understood from...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Antisocial Behaviour (29 Jul 2025)

James Browne: Action to deal with anti-social behaviour and criminality is primarily a matter for An Garda Síochána. Local authorities are responsible under the Housing Acts 1966 to 2021 for the management and maintenance of their housing stock and the management of their estates, including taking appropriate measures to counter anti-social behaviour. Section 35 of the Housing (Miscellaneous...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (29 Jul 2025)

James Browne: Under Section 159 of the Local Government Act 2001, each Chief Executive is responsible for the staffing and organisational arrangements necessary for carrying out the functions of the local authority for which he/she is responsible. My Department oversees workforce planning for the local government sector, including the monitoring of local government sector employment levels. To this end,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Construction Industry (29 Jul 2025)

James Browne: Government is fully committed to working with all stakeholders to deliver social, affordable and cost rental homes at scale and to continue accelerating housing supply across all tenures. This is demonstrated by the record level of investment which is being provided for the delivery of Housing in 2025, with overall capital funding available of €6.8 billion. The capital provision is...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tax Collection (29 Jul 2025)

James Browne: Local authorities are required to submit an annual return to my Department providing information on the implementation of the Vacant Site Levy under the provisions of the Urban Regeneration and Housing Act 2015 in their functional areas. The most recent progress report on the implementation and collection of the Vacant Site Levy by each local authority was collated in mid - 2024. This...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (29 Jul 2025)

James Browne: My Department did not issue funding allocations to local authorities for second-hand acquisitions activity in 2003 or 2024, rather each local authority was provided with an allocation for the number of acquisitions to be supported. For 2025 I have made €325 million available to our local authorities for their social housing second-hand acquisitions activity. The allocation of this...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Regeneration Projects (29 Jul 2025)

James Browne: My Department currently supports on-going activity and projects under the Social Housing National Regeneration Programme. The following table shows regeneration projects submitted to my Department, approved or under review through the Social Housing National Regeneration Programme over the last five years. - Limerick Cork City Dublin City ...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Regeneration Projects (29 Jul 2025)

James Browne: My Department currently supports on-going activity and projects under the Social Housing National Regeneration Programme in the cities of Dublin, Cork and Limerick and the counties of Sligo and Kerry. The table at the following link shows funding provided to local authorities through the Social Housing National Regeneration Programme over the last five years. Additional funding for the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (29 Jul 2025)

James Browne: My Department publishes comprehensive programme-level statistics on a quarterly basis on social and affordable housing delivery activity by local authorities and Approved Housing Bodies (AHBs) in each local authority. This data is available to the end of Q1 2025, and is published on the statistics page of my Department’s website, at the following link:...