Written answers
Tuesday, 8 May 2018
Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
- Rental Sector Strategy
33. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will amend the Housing (Standards for Rented Houses) Regulations 2017 to require landlords to test for radon; and if he... - Proposed Legislation
36. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the water abstraction licensing regime legislation as required by the water framework directive. [19785/18] - Rental Sector
38. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the income criteria for the cost of rental pilot projects being undertaken; and if he will make a statement on the matter.... - Homeless Persons Supports
39. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to address the rising number of elderly persons that are now homeless; his further plans to arrest the escalation of... - Local Government Reform
The Programme for a Partnership Government (PPG) sets out a number of requirements in relation to local government reform. In particular, the PPG envisages the submission of a report to... - Social and Affordable Housing Provision
41. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way in which his Department provides social housing in line with A Vision for Change; and if he will make a statement on... - Social and Affordable Housing
42. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his definition of affordable housing; the way in which he will ensure that homes built on publicly owned land will be... - Homeless Persons Data
43. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the latest homeless figures; the councils that have discrepancies in their figures; and if he will make a... - Housing Provision
44. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way in which he plans to fast-track the development of housing on local authority owned, State owned or State controlled... - Mortgage to Rent Scheme
45. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to greatly expand the mortgage to rent scheme to obviate the sale of family homes by banks to vulture funds; and if... - Traveller Accommodation
46. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the appointment of an expert group to review the legislation underpinning the Traveller accommodation programmes.... - Social and Affordable Housing Provision
47. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applications for social housing projects which have been submitted by Westmeath County Council and Longford... - Regional Assemblies
48. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to review the administrative support given to regional assemblies in view of their role in the national planning... - Social and Affordable Housing Provision
49. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the specific measures he is taking to speed up the delivery of social homes; if he has analysed the data from the Rebuilding... - Housing Data
50. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of rapid build housing units that have been constructed to date as outlined in Action 1 of Rebuilding Ireland; the... - Social and Affordable Housing Data
51. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of newly built social housing units built directly by local authorities in 2017; the way in which this figure is in... - Tenant Purchase Scheme Review
54. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the review of the tenant purchase scheme will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19747/18] - Housing Provision
55. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if plans will be approved for additional housing in County Laois incorporating social housing, affordable housing and private... - Planning Issues
56. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the purpose of a recent circular sent to local authorities in relation to the rights of councillors to comment on planning... - Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund
57. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homes priced between €170,000 and €280,000 that will be delivered under the local infrastructure... - Social and Affordable Housing Provision
58. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the social housing delivery targets set for each local authority are a maximum or a minimum to achieve; and if he will make... - Rental Sector
59. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if legislation to outlaw so-called renovictions (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the... - Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists
60. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to make legislative changes to ensure that persons in receipt of the housing assistance payment, HAP, are kept on the... - Land Availability
62. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the views expressed in his proposal to the public consultation conducted by the Department of Finance on... - Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists
64. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress being made to reduce the social housing waiting lists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19608/18] - Rent Pressure Zones
65. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to review and expand the rent pressure zone system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19847/18] - Local Authority Staff
66. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on whether local authorities are suitably resourced with the relevant personnel, for example, architects, planners,... - Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund
67. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when additional projects in County Kildare can be considered for local infrastructure housing activation fund, LIHAF, funding;... - Mortgage Insurance
72. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the cost of mortgage protection insurance associated with the Rebuilding Ireland home loans... - Rental Sector Strategy
73. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the working group report on short-term lettings will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19851/18] - Housing Assistance Payment
74. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the inadequacies regarding the new housing assistance payment scheme will be addressed; and if he will make a statement on... - Departmental Reports
75. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the report regarding the establishment of a redress scheme for those homeowners whose homes were built using... - Rent Pressure Zones
76. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his strategy to address the problem of excessive rent increases in areas outside rent pressure zones. [19844/18] - Approved Housing Bodies
77. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of work to reverse the EUROSTAT decision to redesignate approved housing bodies as part of the Government sector.... - Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund
79. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if projects which were part of local infrastructure housing activation fund, LIHAF, 1 but which have not progressed will have... - Land Acquisition
80. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the role his Department will play with regard to the new Government agency that will buy private land adjoining existing prime... - Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund
81. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason the local infrastructure housing activation fund, LIHAF, project at Ballincollig, County Cork has not advanced; and... - Local Government Fund
82. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way in which he plans to address the anticipated shortfall of income of €260 million to the Local Government Fund... - Social and Affordable Housing Expenditure
83. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way in which he plans to spend the €25 million fund for affordable housing announced in budget 2018. [19783/18] - Housing Data
84. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 130 of 19 January 2017, the status of the plan to build 73 new units in Ballyburke,... - Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund
85. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason only €1.6 million in funding has been drawn down to date through the local infrastructure housing activation... - Social and Affordable Housing Provision
87. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way in which he plans to improve the supply of newly built local authority social and affordable housing; the reason for... - Homeless Persons Data
88. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of families with children being accommodated in hotels each month since July 2017 to date in 2018; and if he will... - Home Loan Scheme
89. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department is collating a central database of Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme applications from each local... - Vacant Sites Levy
90. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he plans to update legislation to address anomalies in the vacant site levy and to deal with land hoarding. [19841/18]
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