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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (24 Nov 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 381. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of families who have in the year to date applied for local authority or similar housing, affordable housing and-or special needs housing, by county, with a view to responding at the earliest possible date to this need; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38689/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: House Prices (24 Nov 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 382. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average price of a house now deemed to be in the affordable category; the number built, acquired or under construction at present throughout the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38690/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: House Purchase Schemes (24 Nov 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 383. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which he has studied a possible private subsidised sites scheme for potential allocation to suitably qualified applicants on means and income grounds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38691/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (24 Nov 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 384. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of new houses provided by the local authorities, by county, for prospective tenants in 2020 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38692/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (24 Nov 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 385. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of new houses provided by the approved housing bodies, by county, for prospective tenants in 2020 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38693/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (24 Nov 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 386. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of planning permissions or alternative authority granted through local authorities for local authority housing in each of the past three years to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38694/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (24 Nov 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 387. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of housing loans offered to date under the Rebuilding Ireland scheme; the number of such loans drawn down; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38695/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Data (24 Nov 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 388. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of Rebuilding Ireland home loans currently on hand and awaiting approval; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38696/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (24 Nov 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 389. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the level of funding awarded under the LIHAF scheme to each local authority nationwide; the progress to date in respect of the spending of such funds by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38697/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (24 Nov 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 390. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the expenditure to date of the funding awarded to Kildare County Council under LIHAF; the extent to which all the funding has been spent or are in hand thereof; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38698/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (24 Nov 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 391. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of existing local authority houses that have been refurbished or upgraded in each of the past three years to date by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38699/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (24 Nov 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 392. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which funding made available to each local authority in respect of Traveller accommodation over the past five years has been spent to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38700/20]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Preparations (24 Nov 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 427. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which all options have been catered for in respect of the aftermath of Brexit with particular reference to access to foreign markets for Irish products; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38701/20]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Issues (24 Nov 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 428. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which specific Irish produce might be impeded en route to foreign destinations in the context of the post-Brexit situation; if specific guarantees have been given in respect of any or all such access; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38702/20]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Nov 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 429. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the degree to which he and his Department have engaged with bodies other than his Department with a view to providing travel for the Christmas period while keeping in mind best practice in terms of social distancing, sanitising, rapid-testing and mask wearing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38703/20]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (24 Nov 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 430. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the total amount of overseas development aid offered to various bodies globally in each of the past five years to date; the extent to which such funds reach their desired destination; if there were any exceptions to such rules; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38704/20]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (24 Nov 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 431. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which he and his Department have monitored countries in Europe or otherwise currently offering aid for trade to African countries or other economically challenged locations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38705/20]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (24 Nov 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 432. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which Irish aid is being distributed annually under the multilateral aid programme and separately under bilateral aid agreements; the degree to which continued support is offered to achieve value for money for such donations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38706/20]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (24 Nov 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 433. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which he and his EU colleagues continue to monitor worldwide locations of concern in which war, starvation, ethnic cleansing, genocide and human rights abuse against men, women and children are obvious; if specific action is ongoing to address these issues; the success of the international efforts to date in this regard; and...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (24 Nov 2020)

Bernard Durkan: 434. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he and his Department and the international community continue to monitor the activities of the Al Shabaab and Boko Haram or other similar organisations engaged in various nefarious activities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38708/20]