Written answers

Thursday, 13 July 2017

Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government

 
  • Housing Data
    1248. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of new single dwellings constructed since 2007 which have a BER certificate; and the estimated number...
  • Water Charges Refunds
    1249. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the estimated cost of refunding all those that paid water charges. [34541/17]
  • Vacant Sites Levy
    1250. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the estimated annual revenue that could be raised from a vacant site tax of 3%, 6%, 10% and 20% in 2018, 2019 and...
  • Social Innovation Fund Ireland
    1252. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the projects awarded funding by the social innovation fund by county and amount awarded; and if he will make a...
  • Tenant Purchase Scheme
    1253. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will bring forward changes to the tenant purchase scheme which will make this scheme more accessible for...
  • Local Authority Staff Remuneration
    1254. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the criteria for incremental increases as set out for an employee of a local authority that was employed in an...
  • Seaweed Harvesting Licences
    1255. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the reason no public consultation meetings were held regarding the application for a licence for the...
  • Election Management System
    1256. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the level of research his Department has conducted on lowering the voting age to 16; and his views on the necessity...
  • Electoral Commission Establishment
    1257. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to collate or mandate a public body to collate voter turnout statistics by demographic, particularly by...
  • Local Authority Housing Provision
    1259. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government when the various local authorities were requested to make the necessary arrangements to provide for an accelerated...
  • Homeless Persons Data
    1263. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of homeless persons in County Kildare that have been offered and have received accommodation from the...
  • Local Authority Housing Funding
    1264. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the extent to which funding is available to Kildare County Council to address the local authority housing issue;...
  • Planning Issues
    1265. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the extent to which plans are afoot to reactivate stalled building sites such as the town centre at Naas, County...
  • Local Authority Housing Data
    1267. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of families rehoused by Kildare County Council in each of the past two years and to date; and if he will...
  • Housing Data
    1268. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to facilitate the urgent restart of development on house building sites throughout the greater Dublin...
  • Housing Policy
    1270. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the extent to which facilities are available to meet the housing needs of the indigenous rural population...
  • NAMA Social Housing Provision
    1271. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if NAMA may again be approached with a view to the possible availability of extra housing to meet the...
  • Social and Affordable Housing Data
    1272. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of private housing completions in 2016 and to date in 2017 in Dublin city. [33673/17]
  • Homeless Persons Data
    1275. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the current number of homeless families in Dublin city. [33676/17]
  • Housing Assistance Payments Data
    1277. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the current number of households in Dublin city in receipt of the housing assistance payment. [33678/17]
  • Rents Data
    1278. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the current average residential property rental cost in Dublin city and Dublin north city. [33679/17]
  • House Prices
    1279. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the current average cost residential property sale price in Dublin city and Dublin north city. [33680/17]
  • Tax Code
    1280. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his Department has explored the number of potential development sites held by investors due to the seven-year...
  • Housing Assistance Payments Data
    1281. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of HAP persons to date in each county and year. [33709/17]
  • Housing Data
    1283. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the funding for current and capital housing programmes from his Department in each of the years 2000 to 2016. and...
  • Social and Affordable Housing Data
    1285. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of vacant social houses brought back into productive use with aid from his Department in each of the...
  • Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund
    1286. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the amount that has been spent under the local infrastructure housing activation fund to date in 2017; if he will...
  • Mortgage to Rent Scheme Data
    1288. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of applications to the mortgage to rent scheme; the number of mortgage to rent transactions that have...
  • Departmental Contracts Data
    1290. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the amount of money which was spent by his Department in 2016 on external consultants; and if he will make a...
  • Expert Panel on Concrete Blocks
    1291. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on the assessment on page 81 of the expert report on concrete bricks (details supplied); and his plans to...
  • Housing Issues
    1292. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on housing demand assessments in relation to local area development plans (details supplied). [33993/17]
  • Construction Costs
    1293. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government when he expects the independent audit of housing construction costs to be published; and the stakeholder groups and...
  • Housing Issues
    1294. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government when he expects the vacant housing strategy to be published. [33995/17]
  • Planning Data
    1295. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the estimated number of section 5 declarations given by each local authority in the latest year available; and the...
  • Social and Affordable Housing
    1296. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his Department has a statutory or rule of thumb definition guiding policy proposals for affordability limits in...
  • Local Authority Housing
    1297. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to incentivise the development of build to rent units to expand supply in the private rental market....
  • Housing Issues
    1298. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his Department has examined proposals to undertake a comprehensive land and property survey detailing the...
  • Local Authority Finances
    1299. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the approximate income from section 48 development levies in 2016 and 2017. [34000/17]
  • Development Contributions
    1300. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 618 of 4 July 2017, if he will provide a response to the question in terms of...
  • Services for People with Disabilities
    1301. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the way his department is improving services and increasing supports for persons with disabilities during 2017...
  • Departmental Funding
    1302. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the investment by his Department since March 2016 in County Louth and parts of east County Meath; and if he will...
  • Planning Issues
    1304. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the status of the working group review of an organisation (details supplied) regulations; the number of meetings...
  • Housing Data
    1306. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of housing units and size of the overall housing estate owned or managed by the registered voluntary...
  • Voluntary Housing Sector
    1308. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the legislation governing the regulation of the voluntary housing bodies and agencies; his plans to introduce a...
  • Social and Affordable Housing Data
    1309. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of social housing units directly built or provided by each county and city councils in each of the years...
  • Tenant Purchase Scheme Data
    1310. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of new tenant purchase scheme transactions entered into by local authority tenants with Cork City...
  • EU Directives
    1311. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government when consultation on the draft legislative provisions for his departmental remit to transpose Directive 2014/52/EU...
  • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
    1312. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the mechanisms in place to enable local authorities to provide for affordable housing schemes under the current...
  • Housing Assistance Payments Data
    1313. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of HAP recipients per local authority; the number of households eligible for HAP; the number of...
  • Planning Guidelines
    1315. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the status of the provision of planning guidelines for solar powered developments nationally; and if he will make a...
  • Commercial Property
    1316. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the steps he has taken to ensure that businesses sell long-term vacant units in town centres in Enniscorthy and...
  • Local Authority Funding
    1318. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if sufficient funding is available to Kildare County Council to facilitate progress on housing repairs and the...
  • Homeless Accommodation Funding
    1319. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the total spend on homeless services by his Department and agencies under the aegis of his Department for each year...
  • Construction Costs
    1320. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the current average construction cost of a new social housing unit; and the average construction costs of 1 bed, 2...
  • Fire Safety
    1321. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the reason he has still not published a review commissioned by his Department in September 2015 to develop a...
  • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
    1322. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the successful launch of an affordable housing scheme in Ballymun (details...
  • Departmental Staff Data
    1323. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of full-time staff within his Department with specific responsibility for social housing policy; and if...
  • Social and Affordable Housing Data
    1324. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 675 of 4 July 2017, if his Department has projected the number of affordable...
  • RAPID Programme
    1325. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the status of the operation of the RAPID scheme; the projects awarded funding under this scheme, by amount awarded...
  • Construction Costs
    1327. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on the fact that the cost of housing is neither affordable nor sustainable; and the steps he is taking to...
  • Social and Affordable Housing Funding
    1328. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will provide specific funding to Dublin City Council to build sheltered accommodation for senior citizens in...
  • Planning Guidelines
    1330. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will produce guidelines for the assessment of the climate impact of renewable energy developments on...
  • Development Contributions
    1331. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the provisions within national planning legislation to ensure developers of large residential developments have to...
  • Planning Guidelines
    1332. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on whether amendments are required to planning legislation to enable schools in conjunction with local...
  • Social and Affordable Housing
    1334. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the guidelines for the definition of "affordable housing"; the way in which he came to the conclusion that housing...

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