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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (10 May 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 332. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which he proposes to increase the income thresholds to facilitate applicants for local authority houses given that the level has been unchanged for years despite the level of inflation in the house-building sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22612/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (10 May 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 333. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of houses that were made available to local authority housing applicants by county in each of the past two years in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22613/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (10 May 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 334. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applicants for local authority houses by county at present; the extent to which this number has fluctuated in the course of the past two years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22614/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (10 May 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 335. 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 three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22615/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (10 May 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 336. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which Rebuilding Ireland loans or their equivalent can be made available readily to first-time house buyers or to first-time buyers in a new relationship; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22616/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (10 May 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 337. 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. [22617/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (10 May 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 339. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way that house buyers seeking to purchase an affordable house are in a position to do so given house price inflation and the possibility that assistance available is being eroded by price inflation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22619/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (10 May 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 340. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which affordable housing can be made available in such a way as to ensure that those in need are not being subjected to market price inflation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22620/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (10 May 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 341. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if an all-out effort can be made to provide affordable housing and housing for those on the local authority waiting lists in the short-term given the high-level of income currently devoted to payments of rent or mortgage repayment due to house price inflation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22621/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (10 May 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 338. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans for an urgent review of the funding available for affordable purchase housing and for the provision of sufficient funding to meet the requirements of the local authority housing lists and other middle-income groups currently unable to house themselves other than by way of exorbitant rents; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (10 May 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 360. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which the use of concrete in house building contributes to any emissions whether during construction, processing or thereafter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22860/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (10 May 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 361. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which conventional house building through the use of concrete or concrete products contributes to greenhouse gases as opposed to wooden-framed housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22862/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (10 May 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 439. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which the processing of passport applications is being expedited to meet the demand; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23414/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (10 May 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 402. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the progress to date in the determination of an application for a passport in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22849/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (10 May 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 393. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the progress that has been made in processing an application for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22709/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (10 May 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 403. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the progress to date in the determination of an application for a passport in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22850/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ukraine War (10 May 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 413. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent of discussions he has had with his European Union counterparts in regard to the Russian attack on Ukraine. [15296/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ukraine War (10 May 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 414. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which he sees a role for Ireland in promoting an early ceasefire in Ukraine. [16687/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ukraine War (10 May 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 415. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which the Ukrainian issue was discussed during the course of discussions he has had with his European Union counterparts. [15297/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ukraine War (10 May 2022)

Bernard Durkan: 416. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he directly or through the European Union or the United Nations can bring about a ceasefire and withdrawal of Russia from Ukraine. [16688/22]