Written answers
Thursday, 7 December 2017
Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
- Housing Data
13. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of expected new housing starts anticipated by the end of 2017; the number of such houses for families on local... - Tenant Purchase Scheme Review
14. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he plans to publish the review of the tenant incremental purchase scheme; the changes he plans to make to the scheme; and... - Housing Data
15. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of real social houses delivered to date in 2017 by scheme including council new build, council acquisition, council... - Housing Assistance Payment Data
16. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of HAP tenancies created to date in 2017 throughout the country; the number of HAP tenancies created to date in 2017... - Approved Housing Bodies
17. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the possible redesignation of approved housing bodies by EUROSTAT and the CSO; the contingency plans in place to... - Housing Policy
18. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way in which Rebuilding Ireland plans to address the commodification and financialisation of housing; and his view on... - Defective Building Materials
19. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding a previous commitment (details supplied) to implement emergency measures to rehouse home owners affected... - Local Authority Housing Provision
20. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the action that will be taken to reduce the number of stages of approval that local authority housing schemes must go through... - Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund
21. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the criteria he plans to establish regarding affordability in local infrastructure housing activation fund, LIHAF, funded... - Local Authority Housing Provision
22. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of properties acquired by the 31 local authorities to date in 2017; the number that are vacant at present; the... - Private Rented Accommodation
23. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to bring forward changes to the law on ending a tenancy or increasing rent on the grounds of refurbishment; and if he... - Local Government Reform
24. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if plans have been drawn up or considered to reinstate certain former borough and town councils; and if he will make a... - Social and Affordable Housing Provision
25. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to introduce a pilot scheme using the cost rental model developed by an organisation (details supplied) on one or... - Housing Policy
26. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a policy of using public land to build public housing as opposed to private development on public land will be supported;... - Local Authority Housing Provision
27. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on whether the local authority in County Wexford will only directly build three social houses in 2017; if he is... - Departmental Bodies
28. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will appoint a director for Housing First; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52068/17] - Social and Affordable Housing Provision
29. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has met with Fingal County Council on the delivery of public housing. [52261/17] - Pyrite Remediation Programme Implementation
30. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to resolve the difficulties brought to his attention regrading the manner in which in-fill testing is being conducted... - Social and Affordable Housing Provision
31. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has given direction to Dublin City Council as to which arrangements could be considered optimal in the provision of... - Fire Safety Regulations
32. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is satisfied that local government is sufficiently monitoring fire safety in buildings around the country to ensure they... - Local Authority Housing Provision
33. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has proposals to bring forward and accelerate the construction of local authority housing. [52071/17] - Social and Affordable Housing Provision
34. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when an affordable housing scheme will be introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52196/17] - Housing Assistance Payment Administration
35. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has conducted a cost-benefit analysis of the HAP scheme in its current form; if so, the details of the... - Defective Building Materials
36. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he plans to prepare and publish a plan or nationwide scheme to assist home owners in the carrying out of remedial works to... - Local Authority Funding
37. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on expressions of concern by a group (details supplied) at a hearing of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing,... - Planning Investigations
38. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of his Department's inquiry into allegations of planning corruption in County Donegal. [52161/17] - National Planning Framework
39. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans for the national planning framework; the way in which towns and regions will be selected for development; and if he... - Rent Pressure Zones
40. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if, a year after it was introduced in Dáil Éireann, he will review the legislative base for rent pressure zones, in... - Housing Provision
41. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress of his Department’s engagement with the EUROSTAT investigation in respect of the credit union investments... - Emergency Accommodation Provision
42. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the opening of emergency winter beds for persons that are on street homeless; and if he will make a... - Planning Issues
43. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the timeframe for the proposal to fast-track planning for data centres. [50381/17] - Local Authority Housing
44. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the local authority housing construction programme will be made more transparent; if he will include expected completion... - Repair and Leasing Scheme
45. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason for the low number of properties being offered across the four Dublin local authority areas for the repair and... - Departmental Properties
46. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has included lands currently administered by the Department of Defence in his review of publicly owned land that could be... - Local Authority Housing Data
47. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 1358 of 7 November 2017, if he will reconcile the data on voids contained therein and in... - Defective Building Materials
48. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to a commitment given by an Taoiseach on 21 November 2017 that the report on defective blocks will be discussed at... - Shared Ownership Scheme
49. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the findings of the 2013 departmental review into shared ownership schemes; the reason the report was never published; the... - Housing Provision
50. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the degree to which he expects to be in a position to meet the most urgent and pressing housing needs in the shortest possible... - Vacant Properties
51. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to take vacant properties into public ownership in view of the worsening homeless emergency; and if he will make a...
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