Written answers

Tuesday, 6 October 2020

Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government

 
  • Social and Affordable Housing
    35. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to provide more affordable housing options in the Dublin area and put affordability at the heart of the housing...
  • Fire Stations
    42. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the start date for the construction of the new fire station in New Ross, County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Social and Affordable Housing
    43. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the capital advance leasing facility rules will be amended to allow approved housing bodies to provide both social and...
  • Housing Policy
    44. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has considered a scheme to encourage the turning of over-the-shop premises into housing as a way to revitalise rural...
  • Special Areas of Conservation
    45. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is satisfied with the way in which the management plan for SPA and SAC the Gearagh, County Cork, is progressing; the next...
  • Homelessness Strategy
    48. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a restoration of the eviction moratorium will be supported in view of the most up-to-date homelessness figures; and if he...
  • Defective Building Materials
    49. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if provision will be made in budget 2021 for a latent defects redress scheme. [28368/20]
  • Planning Issues
    50. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to concerns about alleged planning irregularities in Wicklow County Council; his plans to...
  • Local Authority Housing
    51. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the fact that persons have been on the housing waiting list for two decades, that more than 68,000 persons and...
  • Fire Service
    52. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to concerns about recruitment and retention within the retained fire service; and if he will...
  • Housing Assistance Payment
    53. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the increasing length of time it is taking to process HAP applications; and his further views on the impact the...
  • Housing Provision
    54. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a housing needs analysis will be commissioned for the offshore islands in view of the fact that housing has been identified...
  • Social and Affordable Housing
    55. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the Galway social housing task force; the number of times the task force has met to date; the reports completed...
  • Water Quality
    56. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the role of the EPA in ensuring water quality on Achill Island; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Direct Provision System
    57. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has been consulted on the role his Department can play in ending direct provision. [28325/20]
  • Local Authority Funding
    58. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans regarding local government budgetary shortfalls in Louth County Council due to Covid-19, rising local government...
  • National Parks and Wildlife Service
    59. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the timeline for the review of the National Parks and Wildlife Service; his priorities in respect of the service in budget...
  • Planning Issues
    60. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when his Department will issue a circular to planning authorities arising from the Flemish decree judgment of the European...
  • Land Development Agency
    61. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of projects under construction or planning for Cork under the Land Development Agency; and the locations of same....
  • Home Loan Scheme
    62. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to expand the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme to include the refurbishment costs in addition to the capital costs...
  • Special Areas of Conservation
    63. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the outstanding issues in respect of the lack of designation of special areas of conservation here and the consequences of...
  • Housing Provision
    64. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the acute housing shortage in County Mayo; the steps that will be taken in 2020 to address...
  • Social and Affordable Housing
    65. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the review of income eligibility limits for social housing will be finalised; if it will be ensured that limits for areas...
  • Water Pollution
    68. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of his engagement with Irish Water on the matter of pollution on the south Dublin coast; and if he will make a...
  • Housing Policy
    69. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the need for cost-rental housing provision in regional towns to accommodate those unable to secure a mortgage from...
  • Social and Affordable Housing
    70. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the roll-out of a national choice-based letting scheme and website to support households accessing the scheme;...
  • Homeless Persons Supports
    71. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of criteria which each local authority applies with respect to residency for persons looking to access homeless...
  • Social and Affordable Housing
    72. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the issue of councils not accepting for housing supports new applicants who are in receipt of Covid-19 payments will be...
  • Water and Sewerage Schemes
    73. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the additional funding not already committed that was allocated in the July stimulus to small sewerage schemes in villages; and...
  • Housing Provision
    74. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the fact that the vast majority of strategic housing developments awaiting planning or having received planning...
  • Housing Policy
    75. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the way in which the commitment in the programme for Government to make housing a social and economic imperative...
  • Social and Affordable Housing
    76. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of plans to introduce a social housing passport scheme to allow households to move from one local authority list to...
  • Wildlife Protection
    77. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the historically low level of prosecutions for wildlife crime, said to be only 90 prosecutions over the past eight...
  • Homeless Persons Supports
    78. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the implementation plan for family-oriented Housing First by Louth County Council; the expected timeframe and resources; if...
  • Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
    79. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a scheme will be put in place for private sector rent write-offs for tenants who have lost income as a result of the...
  • Housing Policy
    81. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of his review on co-living. [28370/20]
  • Land Development Agency
    84. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will carry out a review of the function and remit of the Land Development Agency; when the inventory of State-owned lands...
  • Ministerial Communications
    85. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a list will be published of the communications, meetings or exchange of documents he has had with the developers of Moore...
  • Housing Policy
    86. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason for ending the eviction moratorium in view of the fact that many industries such as the events, hospitality and...
  • Postal Voting
    87. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the criteria for postal ballot eligibility will be expanded in order to align them with those in Northern Ireland. [27753/20]
  • Regeneration Projects
    90. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when replacement housing in the Moyross regeneration area will be completed as part of the Limerick regeneration framework...

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