Written answers

Thursday, 25 May 2017

Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government

 
  • Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund
    6. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government further to his comments (details supplied) in April 2017, the local authorities that have received commitments with...
  • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
    13. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the reason for the considerable delays in accelerating and expanding the rapid build housing programme listed in...
  • Private Rented Accommodation Provision
    16. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the position regarding his commitment to develop and roll out an affordable rental model; the model of affordable...
  • Local Authority Housing Mortgages
    17. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to increase income limits for local authority house loans; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
    18. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on whether one of the main barriers holding back the provision of social housing is the inability of local...
  • Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund
    19. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the level of social and affordable housing that is required for developers availing of the local infrastructure...
  • Local Authority Boundaries Review
    20. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans for the administrative boundary between counties Waterford and Kilkenny; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility
    21. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he has considered the proposals from a group (details supplied) which proposes municipal led mixed income public...
  • Diaspora Issues
    22. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on the implementation of the diaspora voting in future presidential elections. [17993/17]
  • Housing Policy
    23. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn a proposal by an organisation (details supplied) to set up a national housing company...
  • Planning Issues
    24. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on whether national planning standards should be set to increase the height of apartment buildings, in view...
  • Local Authority Housing Provision
    25. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he is satisfied that the local authorities immediately adjoining Dublin city and County are in a position to...
  • Social and Affordable Housing Data
    26. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of house building projects and the number of units involved in those projects that are in the process of...
  • Mortgage to Rent Scheme Administration
    27. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the position regrading the pilot mortgage to rent scheme involving private equity firms including the lease...
  • Alternative Energy Projects
    28. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his Department has reviewed the planning guidelines to be put in place for the construction of solar energy farms;...
  • Community Development Initiatives
    29. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the funds in place for county councils for the development of community centres and other social facilities in...
  • Housing Data
    30. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he is satisfied with the accuracy of official figures for housing completion here; the reason for the disparity...
  • Local Authority Housing Eligibility
    31. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to increase income limits for local authority housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24803/17]
  • Private Rented Accommodation Costs
    32. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on whether the policies of his Department could be contributing to rises in rents in view of the CSO's...
  • Housing Policy
    34. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans for a policy to assist persons who are paying rent in excess of an average mortgage for a similar property...
  • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
    36. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the way in which under the new land bank plan it is ensured that there will be a significant dividend for social...
  • Housing Provision
    37. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if large scale housing funding projects proposed to his Department by local authorities, approved housing bodies or...
  • Private Rented Accommodation
    38. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to advertisements for accommodation in which sex is being sought in lieu or in...
  • Approved Housing Bodies
    39. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he has engaged with the housing associations and local authorities in ensuring that there will be drug-free...
  • Housing Data
    40. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the reason for the disparity between his Department's official figure of 15,951 housing completions during the past...
  • Rent Controls
    41. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will review of the provisions in the Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Act 2016 that...
  • Emergency Accommodation Data
    42. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of persons in hotel and bed and breakfast emergency accommodation as of 20 May 2017; the number of persons...
  • Departmental Reports
    43. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on the findings of the expert panel set up to review the mica issue; the details of those findings; the...
  • Social and Affordable Housing
    44. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the detail of the definition of affordable housing; the nature of the affordable housing; if affordable housing will...
  • Planning Issues
    45. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the obligations on Irish Rail to seek planning permissions for the maintenance, development and improvement of the...
  • Mortgage to Rent Scheme Eligibility
    46. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to increase the income limits for the mortgage to rent scheme; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Local Authority Housing Provision
    47. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of developments that have been approved by his Department under which local authorities built 15, or...
  • Homeless Accommodation Provision
    48. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the planned timeframe for the existence of homeless hubs for homeless persons; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Housing Assistance Payments Data
    49. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of recipients of the housing assistance payment, HAP, who are 18 to 24 years of age by county, in 2016 and...
  • State Properties Data
    50. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the amount of publicly owned land in each local authority area that is under consideration to offer to developers for...
  • Housing Policy
    51. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if further legislative provisions are required in order to ensure a more rapid response to the housing crisis...
  • Pyrite Remediation Programme Expenditure
    53. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to raise the limits for costs associated with the pyrite remediation scheme such as alternative...
  • An Bord Pleanála
    54. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the arrangements and additional staff that have been put in place in An Bord Pleanála in view of the Planning...
  • Mortgage to Rent Scheme Eligibility
    55. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will extend the terms and conditions of the mortgage to rent scheme to include local authorities as part of the...
  • Animal Breeding Regulations
    56. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the status of the dog breeding establishment guideline review; his views on the submissions; and if he will make a...
  • Traveller Accommodation
    58. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the steps he will take to ensure allocated funding is spent in order that quality accommodation is available to...
  • Emergency Accommodation Provision
    59. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the actions he will take to assist persons following a fire at a development (details supplied); his plans for...
  • National Spatial Strategy
    60. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to review the Dublin and mid-east regional planning guidelines in advance of the new national spatial...
  • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
    61. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to reintroduce affordable housing schemes of the type suspended in 2012 for owner-occupiers and or renters...
  • Homeless Accommodation Provision
    62. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the position regarding the plan to move homeless persons from hotels to industrial premises; the reason these...
  • Land Transfers
    64. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the amount of residential zoned land in the ownership of Galway City Council and Galway County Council and/or...
  • Housing Data
    65. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on the recent figures released by the CSO with regard to housing in the context of the Rebuilding Ireland...

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