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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Help-To-Buy Scheme (4 Mar 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 48. To ask the Minister for Finance if a help-to-buy scheme application will be concluded in the case of a person (details supplied); if all outstanding matters will be brought to a successful conclusion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12470/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (4 Mar 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 91. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of Rebuilding Ireland loans issued through local authorities over the past three years to date by month; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12440/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (4 Mar 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 92. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applications received by local authorities for Rebuilding Ireland loans in each of the past three years to date; the number approved and rejected, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12441/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (4 Mar 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 87. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which local authorities can be included in new house building programmes with particular reference to the urgent need to ensure the building of an adequate number of local authority houses to meet the demand in their administrative area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12436/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (4 Mar 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 89. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which he can authorise the allocation of the necessary funding to meet local authority housing demands throughout Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12438/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (4 Mar 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 90. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of local authority housing applicants currently registered in each local authority; the extent to which an additional effort can be made to meet their housing needs on annual basis over the next five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12439/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (4 Mar 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 93. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he expects local authorities to be in a position to have a plan to build houses for all of the applicants on their local authority housing lists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12442/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (4 Mar 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 95. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has formulated plans for an annual sizeable reduction in the number of applicants on local authority housing waiting lists by way of a local authority house building programme; the number of applicants likely to be facilitated as a result; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12444/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (4 Mar 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 99. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he expects to achieve a reasonable waiting period for local authority housing applicants to be housed and rehoused; if this is likely to be in line with best international practice in the near future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12448/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (4 Mar 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 88. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will ensure that the local authority housing loan system and the Rebuilding Ireland loan scheme are restructured in such a way as to meet 40% of local authority demand in their administrative area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12437/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (4 Mar 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 94. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he expects Kildare County Council to have a plan to build houses for all of the applicants on its housing list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12443/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (4 Mar 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 96. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has formulated plans for an annual sizeable reduction in the number of applicants on the Kildare County Council housing waiting list by way of a house building programme; if so, the number of applicants likely to be facilitated as a result; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12445/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Heritage Sites (4 Mar 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 97. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which he has considered plans for the protection and restoration of heritage structures and listed buildings which might be deemed at risk throughout Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12446/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Heritage Sites (4 Mar 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 100. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which he plans to restore listed buildings deemed to be at risk by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12449/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (4 Mar 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 98. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans for the development of local authority serviced and subsidised sites as a means of dealing with the housing crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12447/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Applications (4 Mar 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 104. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a passport will issue in the case of persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12291/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (4 Mar 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 107. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which Ireland, through the UN, has focused on various worldwide abuses of human rights including the use of child soldiers, trafficking in women and young girls, the use of rape as method of war, ethnic cleansing, genocide and total disregard for democratic principles; if the international courts are being used to the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (4 Mar 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 108. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which he expects Ireland as a member of the UN Security Council to be in a position to focus on the various worldwide abuses of human rights; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12451/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (4 Mar 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 118. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which he expects Ireland to use its position on the UN Security Council to highlight and challenge international trafficking in women and children, the suppression of human rights, the disregard for the rule of law and the imprisonment on spurious grounds of various ethnic or other groups; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Cases (4 Mar 2021)

Bernard Durkan: 109. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the action taken to date by the international community to assist a person (details supplied); if the EU and UN will intercede on their behalf; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12452/21]