Written answers
Monday, 11 September 2017
Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
- Motor Tax Yield
1940. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of motor tax collected in each of the years 2011 to 2016 and to date in 2017. [36909/17] - Motor Tax Collection
1945. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the basis upon which motor tax must be retrospectively paid on a commercial vehicle that has been off the road for one year... - Local Authority Finances
1946. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the criteria for borrowing money (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37460/17] - Tribunals of Inquiry Expenditure
1947. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there are ongoing fees being paid relating to the Flood and Mahon tribunals; the areas of expenditure and the amount, for... - Social and Affordable Housing Funding
1948. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress his Department has made in respect of the EUROSTAT investigation into the establishment by the Government of a... - Water Quality
1949. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the actions being taken to improve water quality in rivers following the Environmental Protection... - Foreshore Issues
1950. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 249 of 21 June 2016, the status of a landholding (details supplied); and if he will... - Water Services Data
1951. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the annual capital investment spend on domestic water and sanitation services in each of the years 2000 to 2021, in tabular... - Social and Affordable Housing Provision
1952. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 65 of 13 July 2017, the estimated percentage of the population paying more than a third... - Departmental Reports
1953. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 213 of 28 March 2017 and 2143 of 20 June 2017, if the report in the case of a person... - Social and Affordable Housing Provision
1954. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding a scheme for affordable sites; and if he will make a statement on... - Departmental Staff Data
1955. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of political staff employed in his Department, including parliamentary assistants, secretarial assistants, special... - Homeless Persons Data
1956. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will request that the statistical data relating to the Dublin Region Homeless Executive's, DRHE, protocol (details... - Tenant Purchase Scheme Administration
1957. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will review the purchase scheme for persons (details supplied) in local authority houses; and if he will make a... - Building Regulations
1958. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress which has been made to establish an appropriate redress scheme for home owners in counties Donegal and Mayo in... - Tenant Purchase Scheme Review
1959. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the review of the incremental tenant purchase scheme will conclude; if his attention has been drawn to concerns that the... - Departmental Staff Data
1960. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of women and men respectively employed in his Department, in tabular form. [37242/17] - Departmental Expenditure
1962. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total cost his Department incurred in each of the past five years due to debit and credit card payment services and... - Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility
1963. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of a review being undertaken by his Department of the social housing assessment guidelines; if the applications... - Homeless Persons Supports
1964. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding homeless children; and if he will make a statement on the matter.... - Homeless Persons Data
1965. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homeless children in County Kerry to date in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37247/17] - Tenant Purchase Scheme Eligibility
1966. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason income from the rural social scheme is not included as income in calculating reckonable income under the tenant... - Tenant Purchase Scheme Data
1967. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of houses purchased under the tenant purchase scheme in 2016 and to date in 2017 by local authority; the reason... - Traveller Data
1968. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of Travellers in emergency accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37251/17] - Housing Data
1970. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 105 of 1 June 2017, the number of the 1,117 additional bed spaces of purpose built... - Seaweed Harvesting Licences
1971. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of plans to sell the harvesting rights of kelp disk seaweed to a company (details supplied); if this deal has... - Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists
1972. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of housing applicants who have applied but whose applications have been refused for the medical and disability... - Local Authority Housing Eligibility
1974. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the decision making process for medical and disability priority for local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the... - Planning Data
1976. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of planning applications that were assessed as invalid in County Tipperary in the past three year period; and if... - Water Charges Administration
1977. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to equalise the position of persons connected to rural water schemes with regard to the cost of domestic water, in... - Local Government Audit Service
1979. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the local government auditors report to his Department on their findings from the audit of each local authority; if so, if... - Social and Affordable Housing Provision
1980. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress made to date with the housing units identified in County Sligo in the Rebuilding Ireland programme; the... - Private Rented Accommodation Deposits
1981. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will ensure the practice of non-refundable deposits to be considered for a tenancy (details supplied) will be outlawed;... - Water Charges
1982. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will quantify excessive water usage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37403/17] - Rent Pressure Zones
1983. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the next review of rent pressure zones will be carried out; when he will publish data; and if he will make a statement... - Housing Provision
1984. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will clarify his comments on the fair deal scheme and the housing crisis made in August 2017; the way in which these... - Private Rented Accommodation Deposits
1985. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 11 of 19 January 2017, his plans for legislative changes so that a deposit protection... - Planning Issues
1986. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider a further extension of planning permission for dwelling houses in which an extension of five years has... - Traveller Accommodation
1987. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount it would cost to restore the Traveller accommodation budget to 2008 levels. [37455/17] - Homeless Persons Supports
1988. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of Exchequer funding allocated in the past five years and to date in 2017 for homeless services, in tabular form.... - Housing Data
1990. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of houses built in each year since 2000, broken down by county and including the first half of 2017; the estimated... - Housing Adaptation Grant Funding
1991. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when funds will be made available to local authorities for disabled persons' grants for local authority tenants in 2017; and... - Fire Safety
1992. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the fire safety report on timber dwellings commissioned by the previous Minister, Deputy Alan Kelly;... - Homeless Persons Data
1993. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when families and children in domestic violence refuges and accommodation will be included in official homeless figures; and... - Private Rented Accommodation
1994. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on investigations his officials are undertaking in the rental market here; the number of registered... - Disability Support Services Expenditure
1995. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the fund for assisting persons with disabilities move out of congregated settings; the amount that has... - Tenant Purchase Scheme Eligibility
1996. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that local authority tenants who have saved or have access to the full purchase... - Planning Guidelines
1997. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to remove the local needs clause in County Louth; if adjustments will be made to the development plan for County... - Fire Stations Upgrade
1998. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the Killarney fire station extension, County Kerry; and the timeframe for completion of same. [37570/17] - Rent Pressure Zones
1999. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to a report (details supplied), if he will consider changing the methodology used to calculate rent pressure zones... - Repair and Leasing Scheme
2000. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to change the repair and leasing scheme; and when the plans will come into affect. [37621/17] - Building Regulations Amendments
2001. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to increase the number of fully accessible toilet facilities with adult changing facilities in public places as per... - Water Charges Refunds
2002. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated cost of refunding all those who paid water charges over the past years. [37740/17] - Homeless Persons Data
2003. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homeless persons in the Cavan, Monaghan and Meath area; the services available to persons who find themselves... - Departmental Expenditure
2004. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount his Department invested in 2016 and to date in 2017 by county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on... - Services for People with Disabilities
2005. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way in which his Department has improved services for persons with disabilities in the Cavan, Monaghan and north Meath... - Shared Ownership Scheme
2007. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the legislation in place governing the development of properties which are under shared ownership; and if he will make a... - Housing Estates
2008. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he is taking to address the issue of communal infrastructure, such as septic tanks, in housing estates where in... - Repair and Leasing Scheme
2009. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applications received to date in 2017 for the repair and lease scheme in each county since the inception of the... - Local Government Reform
2010. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the implementation of the programme for Government commitments in respect of local government reform, in... - Commercial Rates
2011. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans for legislation governing the rates structure to enable sectors of society (details supplied) to obtain rate... - Brexit Staff
2012. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there is a senior official with designated responsibility for Brexit matters in his Department; if so, the grade of the... - Construction Costs
2014. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the level of construction inflation that has been experienced by his Department in the 18 months to September 2017 in respect... - Brexit Issues
2015. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has studied the implications of Brexit regarding inward migration from the UK and EU and the additional... - Planning Issues
2016. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his officials completed the trial densification project at a location (details supplied) in the Dublin City Council area;... - Social and Affordable Housing Funding
2019. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress his Department has made along with the National Development Finance Agency on allowing larger institutional... - Homeless Accommodation Provision
2020. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons and families assisted under the emergency accommodation scheme in Dublin 15; and if he will make a... - Rent Pressure Zones
2021. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the recent finding by an organisation (details supplied) that eight out of ten landlords... - Approved Housing Bodies
2022. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social housing and-or affordable housing units built or purchased by each of the approved housing bodies... - Public Services Card
2023. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he, or bodies and agencies under the remit of his Department, plans to make services or payments dependent on the... - Social and Affordable Housing Data
2024. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the houses built as part of the State fund established to build social and affordable housing, including the location of each... - Fire Safety
2026. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is satisfied that every high rise and multi-unit development has been appropriately inspected for fire safety and is... - Housing Assistance Payments Data
2027. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons in each local authority in receipt of HAP; the number in receipt of an enhanced HAP or top-up payment,... - Social and Affordable Housing Provision
2028. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when construction work on each site will commence and when homes on each site will be available in view of the fact that it... - Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund
2029. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of funding that has been drawn down to date further to the announcement of the local infrastructure housing... - Private Rented Accommodation Deposits
2030. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to amend legislation to ensure that the rate of deposits sought by landlords is no more than one month's rent; and... - Rental Sector Strategy
2031. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the expert group to develop plans for a cost rental model for housing has been established; and if he will make a... - Vacant Sites Levy
2032. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to raise the 3% rate of the vacant site levy in view of the limited housing construction under way; and if he will... - Local Authority Housing Data
2033. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of rapid build houses which have been built to date; the additional number expected to be completed by the end of... - Vacant Properties
2034. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he expects to publish the full vacant house re-use strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38212/17] - Local Authority Housing Data
2035. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of new social houses constructed by each local authority to date in 2017; the additional number of social houses... - Rental Sector
2037. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the actions he has taken and the specific actions he plans to take to enforce breaches of housing laws in cases in which... - Local Authority Boundaries Review
2038. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to influence the Mackinnon report on the restructuring of Cork County Council in favour of stability and economic... - Building Regulations Application
2040. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is satisfied with the arrangements for supervision of erectors and installers of timber frame construction systems in... - Planning Investigations
2043. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of a report with his Department into allegations of planning irregularities in County Donegal; if the report has... - Irish Water Funding
2044. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the source of the revenue being used to refund Irish Water customers. [38285/17] - Departmental Agencies Staff Data
2045. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the annual percentage of non-commercial State-sponsored bodies staff under the remit of his Department who were women in each... - Question Heading for question(s) 2047,2048,2049,2050
2047. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of households in receipt of housing assistance payment by county. [38495/17] - Planning Issues
2051. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will introduce legislation to give powers to the local authorities to compel householders and property owners to deal... - Planning Data
2053. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of planning applications for new housing units that have been received to the end of June 2017; the number in each... - Social and Affordable Housing Data
2054. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social housing units that have been constructed in 2017 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter.... - Local Authority Housing
2056. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps taken and dates when each step was completed or cleared by and between the Department of Housing, Planning,... - Local Authority Housing Provision
2057. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the slow timeframe needed to complete the current four social housing approval stages between local authorities... - Housing Provision
2058. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to establish a housing executive with emergency acquisition and building powers for the four Dublin counties and... - Brexit Issues
2060. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the development of sectorial response plans to Brexit, the publication date of these plans; and if he will make... - Brexit Staff
2067. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of vacancies in his Department for Brexit related roles; the expected date for these rolls to be filled; and if he... - Brexit Issues
2069. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the membership and role of all Brexit related stakeholder engagement groups working with his Department on Brexit issues; the... - Departmental Expenditure
2071. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the expenditure savings that are earmarked for his Department for 2018 that are not accounted for in the mid-year expenditure... - Social and Affordable Housing Data
2072. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a list of all Part V housing units funded by his Department in the past 12 months, by housing development... - Local Authority Housing Funding
2073. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what grants or financial supports available to persons who own their own house in circumstances (details supplied); and if he... - Local Authority Rates
2074. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the collection rates for commercial rates by each local authority; the amounts collected in the last year for which figures... - Housing Provision
2075. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will introduce an older persons' housing designation for private sector housing schemes which would facilitate older...
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