Written answers

Wednesday, 14 November 2018

Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government

 
  • Social and Affordable Housing Data
    72. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of publicly owned lands suitable for residential units; the number of residential units built on publicly owned land...
  • Irish Water
    73. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of Irish Water moving towards a single utility; the reason for the separation of Irish Water from a company (details...
  • Proposed Legislation
    74. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he plans to bring forward the legislative changes to the rental sector as indicated in budget 2019; the additional...
  • Derelict Sites
    76. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress he has made in tackling the issue of derelict sites in cities and towns, which halt progressive development of...
  • Expert Panel on Concrete Blocks
    77. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of the recent announcement of the mica redress scheme; the date in 2019 from which homes will begin to be repaired...
  • Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists
    78. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress being made on reducing the social housing waiting lists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47175/18]
  • Approved Housing Bodies
    79. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if consideration will be given to the setting up of housing co-operatives under the aegis of the local authorities with a view...
  • Traveller Accommodation
    80. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the spending of local authority Traveller accommodation budgets for 2017 and to date in 2018; and if he...
  • Pyrite Resolution Board
    81. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the action he plans to take to address the fact that the Pyrite Resolution Board has not heard appeals regarding persons who...
  • Vacant Sites Levy
    82. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of sites on the register of each local authority that will be subject to the vacant sites levy due to be applied in...
  • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
    83. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider ordering a stay on all sales of public land by local authorities or State agencies that could provide...
  • Social and Affordable Housing Data
    84. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the roll-out of the serviced sites fund for affordable housing; the number of affordable units that will be...
  • Tenant Purchase Scheme Review
    85. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to introduce amendments to the tenant purchase scheme; if tenants who were allocated council houses that were...
  • Local Authority Housing Provision
    86. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to accelerate the opening up of vacant council properties to address the acute homelessness problem in cities; and if...
  • Local Authority Housing Data
    88. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a comprehensive list of all unoccupied local authority properties in the Dublin city area is available; and if the time in...
  • Land Development Agency
    90. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the work of the Land Development Agency and the use of public land for housing; and if he will make a statement...
  • Housing Estates
    91. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the review of the taking in charge initiative measure 2 will be published; the level of funding that will be available in...
  • Departmental Correspondence
    92. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department issued a circular (details supplied) independent of him; and if his attention has been drawn to the...
  • Student Accommodation
    93. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of his commitment to bring students living in student-specific accommodation under the protection of the Residential...
  • Planning Issues
    94. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has given consideration to initiating a review into one-off builds prevalent in rural areas; his views on the issue that...
  • Approved Housing Bodies
    95. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has reviewed the approved housing body component of housing targets for 2019 due to the reclassification of such bodies...
  • Homeless Persons Data
    97. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the recategorisation of persons on the PASS system and the statistics on homelessness; and if he will make...
  • Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility
    98. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties facing many families on low incomes that are ineligible for social housing...
  • Local Authority Boundaries Review
    100. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the statutory instrument giving effect to the recommendations in the reports of the local electoral area boundary...
  • Home Repossessions Rate
    101. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he maintains statistics on the number of repossessions; and the services available to those that become homeless following...
  • Rental Sector
    104. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of his plans to regulate the short-term letting sector; and if short-term letting providers will be liable for...
  • National Planning Framework
    105. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to ensure that population caps detailed in the national framework document will not leave persons homeless, push up...
  • Rent Pressure Zones
    106. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to address the housing crisis in County Wexford; if he will consider establishing Gorey as a rent pressure zone; and...
  • Wastewater Treatment
    107. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the need for a national policy to deal with developer-led wastewater treatment systems will be addressed; and if he will...
  • National Planning Framework
    108. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress of the regional spatial and economic strategy with specific regard to the plans for County Kildare; and if he...
  • Local Authority Funding
    110. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a structure can be formed for operation by the local authorities for the purpose of obtaining sufficient capital at the...
  • Housing Assistance Payment
    112. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the increasing difficulty potential tenants are having finding properties that accept HAP;...
  • Commercial Rates Exemptions
    113. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if early childhood care and community educations services will be exempted from paying commercial rates; if his attention has...
  • Anti-Social Behaviour
    115. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the powers that local authorities have in terms of tenancy agreements in dealing with families that have continually broken...
  • Housing Assistance Payment Implementation
    117. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a landlord register of HAP properties will be made available to persons in advance of taking up a tenancy with HAP support;...
  • Social and Affordable Housing Funding
    118. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if funding will be allocated for the regeneration of a location (details supplied) and the construction of social housing on...
  • Residential Property Sales
    119. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the matter of newly completed apartment blocks being sold in bulk to investment funds and pension funds instead...
  • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
    120. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he met with officials from Fingal County Council regarding the roll-out of affordable housing; and if he will make a...
  • Home Loan Scheme
    121. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of successful applications for home loans under the Rebuilding Ireland scheme for first-time buyers; and the number...
  • Regulatory Impact Assessments
    123. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the regulatory impact analysis of the new electoral commission Bill will be published; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Housing Grant Payments
    124. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to increase funding for housing grants provided by each local authority; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Planning Issues
    125. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a review of the planning laws as they relate to unauthorised developments will be carried out; if a recent assessment has...
  • Social and Affordable Housing Provision
    127. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of housing projects that had been under construction by a company (details supplied) before it went into...
  • Electoral Register
    128. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans for a review of the electoral registration system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47103/18]
  • Land Development Agency
    129. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans for Columb Barracks, Mullingar, with respect to the new Land Development Agency. [39914/18]
  • Compulsory Purchase Orders
    131. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of compulsory purchase orders undertaken by Wexford County Council other than for national road projects from 2011...
  • Local Authority Meetings
    133. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if supports will be provided to county councils to enable them to provide for webcasting of local authority meetings in...
  • Social and Affordable Housing Data
    135. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the social housing construction targets for all local authorities in 2018; the number that have been delivered to date in each...
  • Housing Assistance Payment Data
    136. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the individual, annual and weekly HAP targets set by his Department for Galway city and county councils for each of the past...

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