Written answers
Tuesday, 21 March 2017
Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government
- Wind Energy Guidelines
396. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on a matter (details supplied) with regard to the ongoing review of the wind farm planning guidelines; and... - Property Tax Administration
399. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the percentage of property tax that is retained by each local authority; and if he will make a statement on the... - Housing for People with Disabilities Provision
401. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of adapted units that will be allocated to housing persons during phase 2 and phase 3 respectively of a... - Water Meters
402. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of local authorities that had a water metering policy for new house builds prior to the establishment of... - Planning Issues
403. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if prior to the establishment of Irish Water, as part of the approval of a planning application for a new house... - Building Control Management System
404. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the total number of valid commencement notices lodged with the building control management software since 1 March... - Irish Water Remit
406. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his Department is providing funding to Dublin City Council for the north city arterial watermain as part of the... - Grant Payments
407. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if there are grants available for the removal of asbestos roofs from community centres; and if he will make a... - Private Rented Accommodation Price Controls
408. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to commence the national differential rents framework provided for in section 31 of the Housing... - Commercial Rates Yield
409. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on whether local authorities have become significantly more reliant on revenues from commercial rates in... - Housing Provision
410. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he has analysed the optimum mix of social and private housing dwellings in large scale developments such as... - Social and Affordable Housing Provision
411. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to review the 10% social mix in housing developments provided for under current legislation; his plans to... - Building Control Management System
412. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the total number of on site inspections carried out by local authorities on construction projects entered onto the... - Private Rented Accommodation Price Controls
413. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 355 of 28 February 2017, if he will consider further amending the Residential... - Housing Provision
414. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of potential development sites in each local authority that are publicly owned or controlled; the total... - Tenant Purchase Scheme Eligibility
415. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the rules and flexibility applying to the tenant purchase scheme in relation to the amount that can be paid by way... - Derelict Sites
416. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will request that empty houses in County Kildare owned by Waterways Ireland will be either taken out of... - Housing Assistance Payments Expenditure
417. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the cost of the housing assistance payment, HAP, scheme in County Kildare in 2017; and if he will make a statement... - Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists
418. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of persons on the housing lists for County Kildare in each of the years from 2010 to 2016; and if he will... - Community Enterprise Centres
419. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government when a project (details supplied) under the Limerick regeneration programme can proceed to construction now that the... - Housing Assistance Payments
420. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government is the position regarding a tenant that is being moved to the housing assistance payment, HAP, scheme but wishes to... - Commercial Rates Valuation Process
421. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his Department has undertaken an analysis of the costs of operating the commercial rates system; the estimated... - Local Authority Housing Funding
422. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the annual support from his Department to each local authority to the housing capital programme in each of the years... - Rent Controls
423. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 65 of 23 February 2017, if the application of the rent pressure zone scheme to... - Wastewater Treatment
424. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding grants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13197/17] - Unfinished Housing Developments
425. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of the estates in County Galway (details supplied) on his Department's unfinished housing estates list... - Pyrite Remediation Programme
426. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans for homes that are affected by pyrite but have been left out of the current remediation scheme; and if he... - Local Authority Boundaries
428. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the status of the boundary extension from County Waterford into south Kilkenny (details supplied); and if he will... - Housing Assistance Payments Implementation
429. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the actions he will take to promote the acceptance by landlords of the HAP scheme in order that they will be more... - Traveller Accommodation
430. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his Department has received an application for funding under the Traveller accommodation programme from Galway... - Emergency Services
431. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the reason Meath fire services are not being dispatched to assist the ambulance and paramedic services in County... - Wastewater Treatment
432. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the estimated amount it would cost to adequately upgrade the infrastructure in the wastewater plants in the 38... - Housing Assistance Payments Administration
433. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 160 of 8 February 2017, the reason a housing assistance payment, HAP, was... - Public Sector Staff Remuneration
435. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will confirm that in line with the one person one salary principle, no public servant that is a member of a... - Social and Affordable Housing
436. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to assist families that have out grown their affordable homes and cannot sell without clawback or rent... - Housing Assistance Payments
437. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his Department regularly inspects homes rented under the housing assistance payment scheme to check if they are... - State Properties Data
438. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will make all leases of buildings taken out by councils and Departments transparent and post them online.... - National Procurement Service Framework Agreements
439. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that some local authorities publish the details of the companies that... - Departmental Staff Recruitment
441. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government when the assistant principal officer position in his Department, previously held by a person (details supplied) will... - Departmental Bodies
442. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government when the report of the expert panel examining problems that have emerged in the concrete blockwork of certain... - Register of Electors
443. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will undertake a review of the register of electors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13421/17] - Regeneration Projects
444. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will consider a submission by a residents' association (detail supplied) to his Department; and if he will... - Local Authority Housing Maintenance
445. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if a person (details suppled) can have essential maintenance performed on their council home. [13496/17] - Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility
446. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to introduce a scheme to assist those persons working but earning a low income to secure housing; and if... - Local Authority Members' Remit
447. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the level of funding provided by his Department or agencies under its remit to individual local authorities for the... - Regeneration Projects Expenditure
448. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the original budget planned for a project (details supplied); the final amount spent; and if he will make a... - Building Control Management System
449. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will provide a monthly housing completions record on the building control management systems from March 2014... - Housing Assistance Payments Administration
450. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to amend the new housing assistant payment website www.hap.ie to make it explicit that families that take... - Public Participation Networks
451. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the criteria used to allocate funds to local authorities under public participation networks; the scheme the funds... - Housing Provision
452. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of residential units that will be commenced in County Kildare in 2017; and if he will make a statement on... - European Court of Justice Rulings
453. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of voids in Kildare County Council that are currently under refurbishment; and if he will make a... - Local Authority Housing Provision
454. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the current turnaround time for voids in each of the local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the... - Local Authority Housing Data
455. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the level of funding that has been approved for Kildare County Council for the construction of houses in 2017 in... - Repair and Leasing Scheme
456. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the allocation to Kildare County Council under the repair and leasing scheme announced recently; and if he will make... - Commercial Rates
457. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the timeframe for any forthcoming legislation to reform the commercial rates system; and if he will make a statement... - Rent Controls
458. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the position in relation to the ability of a landlord to increase the rent by more than the rent pressure zone limit... - Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding
459. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the funding scheme a rural water programme liaison officer's salary, rural water programme group water scheme... - European Court of Justice Rulings
460. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to a 2013 European Court of Justice decision in regard to planning (details... - Electoral Reform
461. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to review the boundaries for the next local elections; if he will introduce changes to the new districts... - Social and Affordable Housing Provision
463. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government when the first bundle of 520 new social housing homes across six sites, which had approval granted by the then... - An Bord Pleanála
465. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the body or person to which An Bord Pleanála is responsible; the number of An Bord Pleanála's decisions... - Rental Accommodation Standards
466. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the need to increase and enforce health and safety regulations in respect of... - Housing Data
467. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on the fact that only 4.6 % of households spend more than 40% of their disposable income on housing, which... - Grant Payments
468. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on the application to his Department by a person (details supplied) for part funding for the re-thatching... - Mortgage to Rent Scheme Data
469. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of mortgage to rent applications granted since its introduction, by county; and if he will make a... - EU Directives
470. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the date of publication of the legislation transposing the provisions of Directive 2014/52/EU of the European... - Departmental Legal Costs
471. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the total amount spent externally by his Department on legal advice for each year since 2015; the solicitors firms... - Housing Data
472. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on the CSO figures which highlight the decline in home ownership in Dublin; his further views on the... - Ministerial Allowances
473. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will confirm that no Minister or Minister of State under his remit since 2011 has claimed overnight expenses...
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