Written answers

Tuesday, 17 April 2018

Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government

 
  • Water Quality
    1487. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he will take to address a serious risk to the highly vulnerable aquifer posed by a company's reinforcement project...
  • Library Services Data
    1489. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of librarians in the past five years by county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Rent Controls
    1491. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the protections he will introduce for students reliant on affordable accommodation making specific reference to a case...
  • Offshore Renewable Energy Development Plan Implementation
    1492. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position with regard to the so-called Dublin array of offshore wind turbines; the status of the proposal; and if he will...
  • Housing Data
    1493. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of Rebuilding Ireland home loans that have been applied for since 1 February 2018, by county, in tabular form; and...
  • Postal Voting
    1497. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to extend postal voting rights to persons who are due to be abroad on holidays on 25 May 2018; and if he will make...
  • Planning Issues
    1498. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the statutory authority under which he issued ​circular letter PL 02/20189 (details supplied). [14948/18]
  • Local Government Audit Service
    1503. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the town and borough councils that had an auditor's report prepared and issued by the Local Government Audit Service for...
  • Building Regulations Amendments
    1505. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to change section J3 of the Building Control (Amendment) Regulations 2014; if so, when the change will be made; and...
  • Appointments to State Boards
    1506. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on whether it is a conflict of interest that a person (details supplied) is also a board member of an organisation;...
  • Fire Safety
    1507. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the hospitals in the Dublin region that were assessed for compliance under the early risk categorisation procedure undertaken...
  • Vacant Properties Data
    1511. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the accuracy of figures for vacant housing in view of the fact that the CSO refused to publish Garda figures for...
  • Fire Service
    1512. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if Dublin Fire Brigade has the ability to deal with fires that break out in high rise developments in Dublin. [15067/18]
  • Consultancy Contracts Data
    1516. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of expenditure on consultancy by his Department in each of the years 2015 to 2017; the number of consultants...
  • Planning Issues
    1517. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if planning permission for a strategic infrastructure development will be amended by An Bord Pleanála while the planning...
  • Planning Guidelines
    1518. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the system for controlling environmental impact statement and appropriate assessment documents which underpin planning...
  • Fire Safety
    1519. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way in which the early risk categorisation of buildings was carried out in view of the fact that cladding on high rise...
  • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
    1520. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the new affordable housing scheme will be announced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15272/18]
  • Planning Issues
    1521. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the obligations an applicant is under in respect of the new fast-track planning application process directly to An Bord...
  • Pyrite Remediation Programme
    1522. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a review of the pyrite remediation scheme will be carried out with a view to including all homes with a category one...
  • Residential Property Sales
    1524. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if legislative proposals are being considered to examine the legal principle of caveat emptor in respect of property...
  • Legislative Programme
    1526. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of pieces of legislation both enacted and published by his Department which originated in work carried out by the...
  • Seaweed Harvesting Licences
    1527. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of an application by a company (details supplied) for a foreshore licence to harvest seaweed off the coast of...
  • Legislative Programme
    1528. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the Maritime Area and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2013. [15365/18]
  • Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund
    1529. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if funding will be made available through the Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund, LIHAF, or other viable funding...
  • Mortgage Interest Rates
    1530. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to extend the loan interest rates currently available under the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme to existing...
  • Housing Assistance Payment
    1531. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a landlord is discriminating against a tenant by not signing up to the housing assistance payment in certain circumstances...
  • Fire Stations Upgrade
    1532. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of funding for fire stations (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Irish Water
    1533. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will request Irish Water to examine the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Water Services
    1534. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress made in identifying and registering assets which belong to the public water system. [15431/18]
  • Planning Data
    1535. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 666 of 13 February 2018, the number of applications made to An Bord Pleanála to...
  • Home Loan Scheme
    1536. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the eligibility conditions that apply for separated or divorced applicants for the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme...
  • Local Authority Funding
    1538. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when funding will be allocated to Galway County Council and Galway City Council in respect of the 2018 housing aid for older...
  • Seaweed Harvesting Licences
    1539. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he is taking to update the maritime area and foreshore laws particularly for seaweed harvesting; if prior to...
  • Local Government Reform
    1540. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he plans to make a decision on the report regarding the amalgamation of Galway City and County councils; if legislation...
  • Tenant Purchase Scheme
    1542. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the report on the tenant incremental purchase scheme 2016 will be published; the reason for the delay in doing so; his...
  • Tenant Purchase Scheme Data
    1543. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of houses sold by local authorities to date in 2018 under the tenant incremental purchase scheme 2016 by local...
  • Water Services Infrastructure
    1544. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated number of domestic wastewater systems here in tabular form; the number of other private housing estate...
  • Wastewater Treatment
    1545. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to provide a free desludging service to all domestic wastewater systems (details supplied); and if he will make a...
  • Wastewater Treatment Facilities Inspections
    1546. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of inspections carried out each year since the introduction of mandatory registration of single house wastewater...
  • Wastewater Treatment
    1547. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to abolish the means test for the private wastewater upgrade grant and increase the grant to 100% in view of the...
  • Ceadúnas Imill Trá agus Dobharshaothraithe
    1550. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government an bhfuil cás dlí á thabhairt nó an bhfuil bagairt dlí déanta in aghaidh na breithe ón...
  • Register of Electors Administration
    1551. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the dates for applying for inclusion on the supplementary register of electors; the latest date for applying for postal...
  • Water Services Infrastructure
    1553. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding drinking water; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15624/18]
  • Home Loan Scheme
    1554. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the options available to persons, who had hoped to obtain a house purchase loan from a local authority and had saved the 3%...
  • Local Authority Housing
    1555. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if local authority tenants are liable for the cost of repairing internal leaks found by Irish Water; if not, if it is the...
  • An Bord Pleanála
    1557. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the additional resources and personnel he plans to allocate to An Bord Pleanála; the cost and timing of these additional...
  • Approved Housing Bodies
    1558. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of approved housing bodies in operation; the names of the bodies; the annual allocation each received in 2017; and...
  • Irish Water
    1559. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the detail of Irish Water’s figures on the first fix free scheme for each quarter in 2017; and if he will make a...
  • An Bord Pleanála Data
    1562. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will ask local authorities to provide full details of planning permission decision appeals to An Bord Pleanála...
  • Housing Assistance Payment Data
    1563. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of HAP recipients in each county in 2017; the value paid to landlords by county in tabular form; and if he will...
  • Local Electoral Area Boundary Committee Report
    1565. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the local area boundary committees that have been charged with making recommendations in respect of the local electoral...
  • Rent Pressure Zones
    1566. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a review of the way in which rent pressure zones are performing has been completed; and the future plans for these zones....
  • Housing Adaptation Grant
    1567. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the definition of net income as applied to a self-employed person and-or farmer in the context of the local authority housing...
  • Electoral Reform
    1568. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will extend voting rights to Irish citizens living abroad; the consideration given to this matter to date; and if he...
  • Rental Sector
    1570. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures he is taking to address the growing problem of access to the rental market for older persons in view of the fact...
  • Social and Affordable Housing Data
    1571. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans and proposed outputs for public housing for older persons with supports; when such housing will be delivered; the...
  • Housing Adaptation Grant Funding
    1572. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the grant funding for housing adaptations will be returned to 2010 levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Housing Adaptation Grant Data
    1573. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applicants for grant funding for housing adaptations in 2016, 2017 and to date in 2018; the number of these...
  • Rental Sector Strategy
    1574. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when legislation will be brought forward for the implementation of longer term leases; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Housing Loans
    1576. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason persons who purchased a house under the affordable housing scheme are unable in practice to switch the mortgage...
  • Mortgage to Rent Scheme Data
    1578. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applications under the mortgage to rent scheme that have been completed each year since its introduction; the...
  • Local Authority Housing Applications
    1580. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason the bidding system for local authority housing has not been introduced in Sligo County Council to date; if a...
  • Mayoral Election
    1581. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans and timeframe to establish an elected mayor with executive powers for the Dublin region; and if he will make a...
  • Local Government Reform
    1582. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to overhaul local government management structures in the four Dublin local authority areas in order to expedite...
  • Homelessness Strategy
    1583. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to create a Dublin housing executive with executive powers and dynamic leadership to address the levels of...
  • Housing Policy
    1584. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on whether the Dublin region needs a housing tsar to lead a regional housing executive with wide executive powers...
  • Nursing Homes Support Scheme
    1585. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 120 of 22 March 2018, the work being undertaken by his Department to encourage those...
  • Water Services Provision
    1586. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans for a water fountain scheme for towns and cities here similar to the one established in London; the amount such a...
  • Homeless Accommodation Provision
    1587. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the national quality standards framework and inspection regime for homeless services. [16083/18]
  • Homeless Persons Data
    1588. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of adults, families and children who spent time in emergency homeless accommodation in 2017; and the average...
  • Rental Sector Strategy
    1590. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the work of the short-term letting working group; the number of meetings held by the group; the number of...
  • Homeless Accommodation Provision
    1591. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if homeless families with young children are being allocated access to emergency accommodation after 8 p.m.; the number of...
  • Homeless Persons Data
    1596. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homeless families in emergency accommodation that do not have an allocated support worker; his plans to address...
  • An Bord Pleanála
    1597. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that An Bord Pleanála is using threats of legal costs to force a community...
  • Housing Adaptation Grant
    1598. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to alter the conditions of the housing aid for older persons to include persons under 66 years of age that...
  • Fire Safety Regulations
    1599. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the outcome of the review for fire safety in the multi-storey social housing sector which was requested from local...
  • Solar Energy Guidelines
    1601. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to develop guidelines for planning authorities with respect to solar farm projects; the criteria used in the...
  • Social and Affordable Housing Data
    1603. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to set out the number of applications that have been processed and approved under the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme...
  • Home Loan Scheme
    1606. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline his plans to review the income thresholds under the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme for couples (details...
  • Homelessness Strategy
    1607. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline the steps being taken by his Department to ensure the opening of a facility (details supplied); and if he will...
  • Fire Safety
    1608. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline the position regarding assistance to owners of houses who do not comply with fire safety standards; and if he will...
  • Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund
    1609. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when funding regarding the local infrastructure housing activation fund will be made available in view of the fact that south...
  • Departmental Staff Data
    1611. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to set out the number of clerical officers and clerical assistants in his Department on temporary contracts by years of...
  • Home Loan Scheme
    1612. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a copy of the credit policy 2018 which is used in respect of the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme will be provided; the...
  • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
    1613. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to explain the reason for the delay in publishing the revised local authority social housing construction targets; if they...
  • Construction Industry
    1614. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline the reason for the delay in publishing the reports by the Housing Agency and his Department regarding construction...
  • Traveller Accommodation
    1616. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline the status of the establishment of the expert group on the Traveller accommodation programmes. [16458/18]
  • Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund
    1617. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to set out the criteria used by his Department and local authorities to determine if applicants for the local infrastructure...
  • Home Loan Scheme
    1618. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when a decision on an application by a person (details supplied) under the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme will issue....
  • State Properties Data
    1619. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of State owned properties in each county including property owned by local authorities; the acreage of land owned...
  • Repair and Leasing Scheme
    1622. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to reform the repair and leasing scheme; the annual target for units; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Housing Data
    1624. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the expected number of affordable homes under the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme to be completed in 2018; the number...
  • Home Loan Scheme
    1625. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 636 and 642 of 27 March 2018, if continuous employment as outlined on the website...
  • Commencement of Legislation
    1626. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when section 28(1) of the Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Act 2016 will be commenced; and the...
  • Housing Data
    1627. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of residential units built by each local authority in each of the years 2012 to 2017 and to date in 2018; and if...
  • Tenant Purchase Scheme Review
    1628. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the review of the new tenant purchase scheme will be finalised; the changes which are proposed as a result of the...

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