Cormac Devlin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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344. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the sections of the Housing Acts 1997 to 2014 upon which local authorities can rely in order to evict tenants who are engaged in known criminal behaviour such as drug dealing, violence and intimidation, repeated antisocial behaviour or damage to the property or surrounding area; the number of cases taken by each Dublin local authority under this Act since 2015 in each of the years 2015 to 2020, inclusive, in tabular form; the percentage of these cases that have been successful; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11825/21]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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Section 12 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014 deals with District Court proceedings for possession by a local authority where there has been a breach of a tenancy agreement or rent-related obligation. The tenancy agreement includes a term relating to anti-social behaviour. Anti-social behaviour is defined in section 1 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1997, as amended.

Information supplied by the four Dublin local authorities to my Department relating to the number of possession applications sought in the District Court under section 12 of the 2014 Act in the years 2016 to 2020 and the number of possession applications granted in those years is as follows:

My Department does not hold information on the percentage of cases that were successful in any given year. It should be noted in relation to the figures for 2020, that local authorities were asked not to terminate tenancies during periods of lockdown due to Covid-19.

As stated, the above figures relate to applications under section 12 of the 2014 Act, so refer to any breach of the tenancy agreeement, including the term of the tenancy agreement relating to anti-social behaviour.

Cormac Devlin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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345. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of strategic housing developments in each of the years 2016 to 2020, inclusive, in tabular form; the status of such applications approved and commencement notices in each of the four Dublin local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11833/21]

Peter Burke (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)
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The Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Act 2016 (the Act) introduced new streamlined arrangements to enable planning applications for strategic housing developments (SHDs) of 100 housing units or more, or student accommodation or shared accommodation developments of 200 bed spaces or more, to be made directly to An Bord Pleanála (the Board) for determination.

With specific regard to SHD applications received in respect of proposed developments in the functional areas of the four Dublin local authorities, the Board received 169 such SHD applications from the commencement of the new SHD arrangements in 2017 up until end January 2021, and has decided 143 of these cases with 2 further applications subsequently withdrawn. The Board has granted permission in 110 of these cases to date.

The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the table below:

The Programme for Government commits to not extending the SHD arrangements beyond their legislative expiry date of end December 2021, which has now been extended to 25 February 2022 arising from the Covid-related extension of duration of statutory deadlines within the planning system for 8 weeks in respect of the period March to May 2020. The process for winding up the SHD arrangements and their replacement by possible new arrangements will be considered by my Department over the coming months.