Written answers
Tuesday, 24 November 2020
Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
- Urban Regeneration and Development Fund
42. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the urban regional development fund for Letterkenny, County Donegal. [38369/20] - Home Loan Scheme
51. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of Rebuilding Ireland home loan drawdowns to date in 2020 in each local authority; and the average amount drawn down... - Housing Estates
52. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the taking in charge of housing estates process will be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38207/20] - Housing Policy
53. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the age friendly strategy; the actions being taken to build on housing options for our ageing population; the... - Homeless Accommodation
54. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the person or body that inspects private homeless hostels to ensure support services for persons who have become homeless are... - Social and Affordable Housing
55. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to ensure that public land, zoned for housing, will be developed as 100% social and affordable housing in view of the... - EU Regulations
59. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans for implementing the European Commission REACH Committee’s regulation that would ban the use of lead gunshot;... - Local Authority Housing
60. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which affordable local authority housing is being adequately provided for the numbers currently on the local... - Homelessness Strategy
61. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures he plans to take to reduce homelessness; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38334/20] - Covid-19 Pandemic
62. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will extend the eviction ban until the end of the Covid-19 pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38399/20] - Mortgage Lending
63. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the options under consideration for middle income families who cannot secure sufficient mortgages in circumstances in which... - Social and Affordable Housing
65. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if further information will be provided regarding the new affordable purchase scheme as announced in budget 2021; if a timeline... - Urban Regeneration and Development Fund
66. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the level of funding he plans to allocate to the urban regeneration and development fund 2020 projects; when he plans to... - Rental Accommodation Scheme
68. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will announce the specifics of a new affordable rental scheme. [38315/20] - Housing for People with Disabilities
69. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of houses that have been procured or built by the State for persons with disabilities in each of the past five years... - Social and Affordable Housing
70. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his assessment of the cost effectiveness of the use of long-term leasing as a method of Part V delivery; and if he will make a... - Wind Energy Guidelines
71. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps which remain to be completed in order to sign the new guidelines for renewable generation at windfarms; and if he... - Housing Policy
72. 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... - Social and Affordable Housing
73. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if funding will be released for the building of public housing on 50 acres of council owned zoned landbanks in County Louth;... - Traveller Accommodation
75. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the breakdown of accommodation provided under the Traveller accommodation scheme in 2018, 2019 and to date in 2020 by each... - Local Authority Housing
76. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he plans to change the practice by which development of council housing starts from a blank canvas design and to move to... - Údaráis Áitiúla
77. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government an bhfuil i gceist aige cur i ngníomh an dlí maidir le cúrsaí pleanála sa Ghaeltacht a phlé leis... - Local Authority Funding
78. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of the rebate received to date by Cork County Council; and the actions he has taken to provide assurance to local... - Housing for People with Disabilities
79. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to provide additional supports to allow persons living with a disability to remain in their own homes. [38283/20] - Commercial Rates
80. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to extend the commercial rates waiver into the first quarter of 2021. [38477/20] - Architectural Heritage
81. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the issues raised in correspondence (details supplied) will be supported to engage his officials and the HSE to carry out of... - Housing Policy
83. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the findings of the review of co-living; and if these findings point to the need to end the practice of same. [38264/20] - Social and Affordable Housing
84. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the level of capital investment in social housing in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38290/20] - Water Services
85. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if additional funding will be made available to provide sewerage mains in unsewered villages in County Clare. [36518/20] - Vacant Properties
86. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to put measures in place to support the refurbishment of vacant property in towns and villages; and if he will make a... - Housing Policy
89. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on clustered development within rural areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38297/20] - Gaeltacht Policy
90. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the current review of allocation schemes will take into account the requirement under law to promote Irish as the community... - Social and Affordable Housing
91. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a plan of public, cost rental and affordable housing will be implemented on the Oscar Traynor site and the timeframe for the... - Tenant Purchase Scheme
93. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he plans to publish the report prepared by his Department on the tenant purchase (incremental) scheme 2016; if, in view of... - Covid-19 Pandemic
94. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has had any engagement with local authorities regarding the safe practice of Christmas markets in 2020; and if he will... - Land Development Agency
97. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the proposed process for the development of the former Meath hospital site by the LDA; the potential proposal or scheme his... - Fire Service
98. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the establishment numbers for the retained fire service; and the number of existing number across all fire authorities in the... - Housing Policy
101. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the terms of reference for his Departmental review on shared/co-living established following his appointment; the membership... - Social and Affordable Housing
102. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the analysis his Department has carried out into the effectiveness of the strategic housing development process in the... - Commercial Rates
103. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if consideration will be given to a special allocation of funding to Clare County Council to compensate for the shortfall... - Housing Policy
104. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the fact that mandatory high-density housing requirements in rural towns are acting as a disincentive for the... - Proposed Legislation
106. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to publish the electoral reform Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38285/20] - Housing for People with Disabilities
107. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there is a system of quotas or statutory imposed ratios in the provision of housing for persons with disabilities; the... - Social and Affordable Housing
108. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when construction will commence on the glass bottle site, Ringsend, Dublin 4 in order to provide much needed social and... - Local Authority Housing
110. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to further develop the buy and renew scheme to facilitate the delivery of housing stock. [38286/20] - Office of the Parliamentary Counsel
112. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the arrangements which have and are being made to ensure that priority access to legal drafters is assigned to the marine... - Urban Regeneration and Development Fund
113. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the urban regeneration and development fund support for Tralee, County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on... - Derelict Sites
114. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if funding will be made available to local authorities for compulsory purchase of derelict sites to utilise these to bolster... - Septic Tanks
116. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to review the septic tank grant guidelines which are implemented by local authorities; and if he will make a... - Departmental Legal Costs
118. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the expenditure of his Department and An Bord Pleanála in each year since January 2017 in respect of all legal services... - Constitutional Amendments
119. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to hold a referendum on the right to water and public ownership of the water infrastructure. [31331/20] - Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund
120. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if funding for the port access northern cross route will be released under the next tranche of LIHAF funding; and if he will... - Strategic Infrastructure Provision
121. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the strategic housing development programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38068/20] - Mayoral Election
122. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding the directly elected mayor of Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38468/20] - Local Authority Housing
123. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on Tipperary County Council evicting three persons from a property due to the fact that they are over the threshold... - Social and Affordable Housing
126. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 55 of 6 October 2020,the status of the work of the Galway social housing task force; if... - Irish Water
127. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has raised concerns with Irish Water on the issue of connection fees for water and sewerage for residential new builds... - Defective Building Materials
128. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is progressing a remediation scheme for defective blocks containing pyrite. [38081/20] - Traveller Accommodation
131. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the implementation of the report of the expert group on Traveller accommodation. [38308/20]
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