Written answers
Tuesday, 7 July 2020
Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
- Just Transition Fund
267. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of funding provided for the aggregated housing upgrade scheme; the amount spent to date; the progress to date; and... - Local Authority Rates
268. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when it is planned to reimburse councils for the loss of rates since March 2020; and if he will make a statement on the... - Pyrite Resolution Board
270. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the Pyrite Resolution Board will take responsibility for ongoing damage to dwellings in County Limerick, caused from the... - Local Authority Funding
271. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a submission from Kilkenny County Council on its financial circumstances due to the Covid-19 crisis has been received; the... - Water Services
273. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the Local Government (Financial Provisions) Act 1997 outlined a central funding model for water services and removed the... - Planning Issues
274. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if planning applications relating to proposed developments on State-owned land that are submitted to a local authority by... - Social and Affordable Housing
275. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will review the social housing policy to give tenants who suffer from a long-term illness but have personal savings the... - Homeless Accommodation
276. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount spent on providing accommodation for homeless families and persons in hotels and bed and breakfasts in each local... - Planning Issues
277. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will clarify the situation regarding a housing complex (details supplied); if his Department has received an application... - Programme for Government
278. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the costings carried out on the programme for Government; and if he will provide documents on those costings. [14033/20] - Consultancy Contracts
279. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the external consultancy organisation or provider which delivered diversity and inclusion training within his Department from... - Departmental Legal Costs
280. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the expenditure his Department incurred in respect of external legal fees in each of the years from 2016 to date in tabular... - Arts Centres
281. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of funding for the Cork event centre; and the engagement that has taken place with the local authority in the past... - Departmental Functions
282. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the functions and agencies that fall within the remit of his Department; the functions or agencies that were previously under... - Social and Affordable Housing
284. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average cost of Part V social housing units by local authority in 2018 and 2019, in tabular form. [14090/20] - Programme for Government
289. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the programme for Government commitment to hold a referendum on housing will be a referendum to enshrine the right to... - Water Services
290. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the efforts by his Department to create a single water utility; and his plans to bring forward legislation to... - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission Issues
292. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the submission by the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission to the Council of Europe on the 17th National... - Local Authority Rates
293. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties that small, non-profit sports clubs are having in securing an exemption... - Social and Affordable Housing
294. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the geographical spread for the 50,000 new social housing builds; and the yearly target per local authority area in tabular... - House Purchase Schemes
295. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the housing assistance scheme for first-time buyers applies to a once-off building of a home in the countryside; and if he... - Departmental Schemes
296. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 876 of 23 June 2020, the nature of the rehabilitation works; and if he will make a... - Heritage Sites
297. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the proposal by South Dublin County Council to spend an estimated €22 million on the development of a... - Architects Register
298. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of a report (details supplied); his plans to act on the report and insert the grandfather clause; and if he will... - Departmental Circulars
299. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a circular has been drafted by his Department and is to be issued to local authorities imposing a blanket ban on the... - Residential Tenancies Board
300. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the Residential Tenancies Board will be allowed to recruit more adjudicators; the number of adjudicators that will be... - Local Authority Housing
301. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will establish an independent appeals process to allow those persons on local authority housing waiting lists that were... - Property Registration Authority
302. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the waiting time to transfer properties with the Property Registration Authority; the length of time the longest applicant is... - Commercial Rates
303. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of commercial rates valuation appeals awaiting a result in each of the years 2017 to 2019; the average waiting time... - Housing Policy
304. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his policy on restrictions on planning for one-off housing in rural areas and the impact it will have on rural populations and... - Homelessness Strategy
307. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the target date for ending homelessness; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14371/20] - Fire Safety
308. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if appropriate measures are in place in publicly-owned houses, flats and apartments to prevent residential fires; and if he... - Social and Affordable Housing
310. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the price paid per Part V unit in Dublin and each other county, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter.... - Planning Issues
312. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the percentage of approved planning permissions which have construction under way; and if he will make a statement on the... - Social and Affordable Housing
314. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if it is policy to deliver affordable housing at prices between €160,000 and €250,000; if the equity share of... - Invasive Plant Species
315. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if funding will be made available to Clare County Council to eradicate an extensive spread of Japanese knotweed on public... - Environmental Protection Enforcement
316. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of tree preservation orders issued by the four Dublin local authorities in each of the years 2015 to 2019, in... - Housing Estates
317. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of applications by Kildare County Council for funding to complete a housing estate (details supplied) with... - Local Authority Housing
318. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social homes in counties Longford and Westmeath that have had works completed under the energy efficiency and... - Housing Adaptation Grant
319. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on an amendment to the legislation that results in a child with a profound physical disability not being eligible in... - Ministerial Responsibilities
320. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will publish the departmental briefing paper on his role, remits and powers afforded to him upon appointment to the... - Local Authority Housing
321. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the funding available for local authorities for the voids programme will be increased for 2020; and if he will make a... - Social and Affordable Housing
323. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans for affordable housing including the cost of an affordable house; if he will provide an update on the plans for... - Rental Sector
324. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to roll out cost rental housing; the way in which the allocation of these homes will work; the cost of the rents for... - Social and Affordable Housing
326. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will discuss with Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council and the Department of Education and Skills, the land which... - Local Authority Rates
329. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a rates waiver for all theatres and live entertainment venues until they can reopen; and if he will make a... - Programme for Government
330. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide detailed information on the roll out of the affordable services sites in the programme for Government....
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