Written answers

Tuesday, 5 April 2022

Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government

 
  • Special Areas of Conservation
    291. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of raised bogs in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18337/22]
  • Invasive Species Policy
    292. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the development of a new national invasive species management plan as outlined in the Programme for...
  • Building Regulations
    293. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address matters raised in relation to building regulations in correspondence from a person (details supplied); and...
  • Local Authorities
    294. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider an issue (details supplied) from a local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17482/22]
  • Housing Provision
    295. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the up-to-date position with regard to a development (details supplied) in south County Kildare; when it is expected to open;...
  • Rental Sector
    303. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the Housing for All extended rent pressure zones to 2024 and rents linked to the harmonised index of...
  • Building Energy Rating
    305. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the Housing for All for minimum building energy rating standards for private rental dwellings. [17534/22]
  • Rental Sector
    306. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the Housing for All upfront deposit and rent payments capped at two months value. [17535/22]
  • Housing Provision
    307. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the Housing for All objective to provide over 90,000 social homes by 2030, including an average annual...
  • Vacant Sites
    320. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the Housing for All plan to introduce a new tax to activate vacant land for residential purposes. [17549/22]
  • Housing Provision
    321. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the Housing for All for a new croí cónaithe fund to increase owner-occupier apartment...
  • Regeneration Projects
    323. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the Housing for All plan for targeted funding via the urban regeneration and development fund and rural...
  • Planning Issues
    324. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the Housing for All planning exemptions for above-shop conversions and guidance relating to protected...
  • Vacant Properties
    325. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the Housing for All nationwide and local-authority-led compulsory purchase order scheme to purchase...
  • Local Authorities
    326. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current salary scale for each chief executive officer in each local authority, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
  • Public Sector Staff
    329. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of staff who are currently absent from work on full pay due to suspension or workplace disputes in his Department...
  • Departmental Reports
    330. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 217 of 10 March 2022, the reason the report for the provision of research and...
  • Rental Sector
    331. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of plans to change the differential rent scheme to align all local authorities in respect of the way rent is...
  • Housing Policy
    332. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the proposed demolition of a number of houses at a location (details...
  • Defective Building Materials
    333. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he expects to publish the general scheme of the legislation for the enhanced defective block remediation scheme for...
  • Grazing Rights
    334. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the derogations that are proposed to farmers that have habitually used heather and gorse mountain burning as a means of...
  • Housing Schemes
    335. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will extend housing assistance payments as outlined in correspondence (details supplied). [17832/22]
  • Heritage Sites
    337. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to safeguard, protect and conserve ancient raths, also known as ringforts or fairy forts, particularly given the...
  • Local Authorities
    338. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 330 of 22 March 2022, if his Department has clarified the matter regarding the refusal...
  • Legislative Measures
    339. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will commence section 212 of the Local Government Act 2001; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17971/22]
  • Local Authorities
    340. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he intends to conduct a full audit of individual local authority finances; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Housing Provision
    342. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of social housing developments that have availed of the one stage approval process; the total number of...
  • Departmental Staff
    343. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of new staff funded by his Department who have taken up their posts in local authority housing departments in...
  • Housing Provision
    344. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the resolution of the unsold affordable homes held by the Dublin local authorities; if as part of the use of the...
  • Wind Energy Guidelines
    345. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason for the delay in finalising the new wind energy guidelines; when the new guidelines will come into force; and if he...
  • Legislative Measures
    347. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on his plans to legislate through the Residential Tenancies Acts for default conciliation as part...
  • Housing Provision
    350. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the review of the Housing Agency Acquisition; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Local Authorities
    351. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the preparation of housing delivery plans to include social and affordable housing delivery by...
  • Housing Policy
    353. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the review of the range of housing grants available to assist with meeting specific housing...
  • Local Authorities
    354. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if disability friendly housing technical advisers have been nominated in each local authority; the number of disability...
  • Housing Policy
    355. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a quarterly report of the housing and disability steering group has been provided to each local authority; and if he will...
  • Departmental Schemes
    356. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the roll-out of the preferential caravan loan scheme; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Departmental Policies
    357. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on his plans to liaise with the Northern Ireland Housing Executive in relation to the feasibility...
  • Planning Issues
    358. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the review and consolidation of planning legislation; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Legislative Measures
    359. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to commence section 9 of the Local Government Rates and other Matters Act 2019; the guidance he is issuing to local...
  • Housing Schemes
    361. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the introduction of a targeted energy efficiency retrofit scheme for approved housing bodies;...
  • Water Supply
    362. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the roll-out of a national water supply capacity register; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Housing Provision
    363. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the engagement his Department has had to date with Longford County Council and an approved housing body in relation to an area...
  • Regeneration Projects
    365. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the proportion of funding allocated to Vote 34, subhead A15, estate regeneration and refurbishment, which will be used to...
  • Housing Provision
    366. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the proportion of funding allocated to Vote 34, subhead A17, repair and leasing, which will be used to achieve the output...
  • Departmental Expenditure
    367. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated impact of voted expenditure for Vote 34, subhead A8, capital advance leasing facility, which amounts to...
  • Departmental Funding
    369. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding provided to the Land Development Agency in respect of its non-commercial activities, as included in schedule 12 of...
  • Departmental Expenditure
    370. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated impact of voted expenditure for Vote 34, subhead A33, Croí Cónaithe, which amounts to...
  • Departmental Funding
    371. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the additional funding required to increase the Vote 34 subhead A7, capital assistance scheme outputs target to 1,000 units....
  • Departmental Expenditure
    372. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown of Vote 34, subhead A3, local authority housing, in terms of delivery models and funding...
  • Housing Schemes
    373. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average subsidy per unit envisaged through the first home scheme as included in Vote 34, subhead A31. [18149/22]
  • Housing Provision
    374. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the breakdown of the 1,000 units to be delivered by the Land Development Agency in 2022 in terms of affordable purchase and...
  • Housing Schemes
    375. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of active HAP tenancies in place at the end of each year from 2016 to 2021. [18180/22]
  • Flexible Work Practices
    378. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current policy with respect to remote working options for staff in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Housing Policy
    380. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on any review of the HAP limits given spiralling rents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18193/22]
  • Housing Schemes
    382. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the protections that will be put in place to safeguard the State’s investment in homes as part of the shared equity and...
  • Housing Provision
    383. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of new build social housing homes that were delivered in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18241/22]
  • Vacant Properties
    386. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of vacant homes that were brought back into use using the repair and lease scheme in 2021; and if he will make a...
  • Local Authorities
    388. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the circumstances in which a section 183 vote is required by local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Rights of Way
    389. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way a local authority can create a new public right of way; if there are any constraints on local authorities to do this;...
  • Housing Schemes
    390. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of recipients of HAP and RAS support in County Mayo each year since 2016, in tabular form; and if he will...
  • Housing Policy
    391. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the last time that income thresholds were increased; the effect in real terms on income thresholds due to inflation in that...
  • Water Services
    392. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which group water schemes in receipt of public funds should be required to become companies limited by guarantee...
  • Ceadúnas Imill Trá agus Dobharshaothraithe
    393. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government cén uair a aistreofar an fhreagracht maidir le hiarratais ar cheadúnais imeall trá a mheas, agus maidir leis na...
  • National Parks
    395. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if an education liaison officer has been appointed in each of the national parks to work with schools across the country...
  • Vacant Sites
    396. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total amount levied under the vacant sites levy; the total amount collected by local authority area; and if he will make a...
  • Departmental Contracts
    397. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the cost of consultants to his Department in 2020, 2021 and to date in 2022; and if he will provide an outline of the role of...

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