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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (14 Nov 2018)

Bernard Durkan: ...international market to restore the traditional local authority house building programme, including the provision of serviced sites and affordable housing; if audits have been carried out of the lands in the possession of the local authorities in the greater Dublin area in order to facilitate such a programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47114/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (14 Nov 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 299. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if local authorities have sought additional capital for the acquisition of building lands on which it might be proposed to build local authority houses as opposed to through the aegis of approved housing bodies; the degree to which previously owned local authority lands have been utilised for exclusively local authority...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Economic Competitiveness (25 Oct 2018)

Bernard Durkan: Does the Minister agree that a lack of affordable housing in the economy is most likely to lead to overheating by way of house price inflation, which could land us in the position we occupied some years ago and where the State might have to intervene? Would he agree that as long as property prices continue to inflate in the way they do without adequate availability of affordable housing,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (27 Sep 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 42. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of local authority owned potential building lands available for local authority affordable housing in the greater Dublin area with particular reference to those counties immediately adjacent to Dublin; if a particular reason has emerged which might inhibit progress of a major house building campaign to meet the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (27 Sep 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 255. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of local authorities that have lands within their possession that are serviceable or serviced on which local authority and affordable houses can be started as a matter of urgency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39318/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (27 Sep 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 265. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the lands now immediately available in the counties adjacent to Dublin to facilitate immediate local authority and affordable housing starts; the extent to which planning requirements in this regard have been complied with; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39328/18]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme (18 Sep 2018)

Bernard Durkan: ...the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if legal clarification has been agreed regarding whether uninterrupted turf cutting in succession since the 1970s on a plot unassigned by the Land Commission may be combined to give a 30 year right of prescription over the plot; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37573/18]

Summer Economic Statement 2018: Statements (20 Jun 2018)

Bernard Durkan: ...country to go down the tubes. The country had been well and truly down the tubes for several years prior to that. Perhaps the Acting Chairman remembers the reference that was made to the soft landings in previous commentary. An airline pilot would not have had problems with the soft landings that were promised during that period. All Members on the opposite side of the House were...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (20 Jun 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 37. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the degree to which he has identified land in each local authority area which is deemed suitable for the provision of local authority houses in the short-term, with particular reference to the local authorities in the greater Dublin area; the extent to which he expects their respective housing programmes to accelerate...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Provision (20 Jun 2018)

Bernard Durkan: ...correspondence from the local authorities indicating progress in dealing with the housing situation; if he has issued specific instructions to the local authorities to utilise their existing lands for the provision of local authority houses as opposed to providing the funding to housing bodies; if there are particular reasons some local authorities have not been able to progress their...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Availability (20 Jun 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 232. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the degree to which he has sought or received from each local authority an indication of the availability of building lands for immediate housing purposes within each such administrative area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27081/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Availability (20 Jun 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 233. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which he has sought and received information relating to the land banks owned by various local authorities; the extent to which local authorities have utilised the land in their possession for housing purposes in view of the urgency of the situation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27082/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Availability (20 Jun 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 234. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if local authorities have sought additional capital for the acquisition of building lands on which it may be proposed to build local authority houses as opposed to through the aegis of approved housing bodies; the degree to which previous owned local authority lands have been utilised exclusively for local authority house...

Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Jun 2018)

Bernard Durkan: ...issue of unregulated lenders and their agents who are at the moment attempting to launch a major campaign to repossess family homes and businesses throughout the country. I refer to the courts and land conveyancing (amendment) Bill, which is promised legislation, and to a Private Members' Bill which I have drafted and left in the custody of the Minister. Might it be possible to ask the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (12 Jun 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 1280. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of land available for the provision of local authority housing by local authority area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24410/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Urban Development (29 May 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 290. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the attention of the land values reference committee has been drawn to the outstanding arbitration process holding up development at the town centre, Naas, County Kildare; the efforts likely to be made to address the issue in the near future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23645/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (8 May 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 488. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which he remains assured that adequate suitable and serviced building lands remain available in each local authority area to facilitate house building in line with requirements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20088/18]

Other Questions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (25 Apr 2018)

Bernard Durkan: ...in its turn to a reduction in greenhouse gases? I refer, for example, to a greater encouragement of and reliance on electric cars, a greater reliance on forestry which can utilise marginal land such as bogland that only needs to be harvested once every 30 or 40 years, and greater use of existing solar and wind energy where possible. Solar energy can and should be generated on marginal...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Data (27 Feb 2018)

Bernard Durkan: 758. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number and location of local authorities that have advanced plans to provide local authority houses on publically owned lands in the next twelve months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10107/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (27 Feb 2018)

Bernard Durkan: ...for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a cost benefit analysis has been carried out on a proposal to encourage construction companies to build local authority houses on county council lands in counties Kildare, Wicklow and Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10118/18]