Written answers
Tuesday, 26 April 2022
Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
- Wind Energy Generation
607. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department is considering increasing minimum setback distance for wind turbines from homes and residential areas; when... - Departmental Schemes
608. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason an application (details supplied) was unsuccessful under the Heritage Historic Structures Fund; if clarity will be... - Planning Issues
609. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider placing an obligation on short-term letting sites to verify change of use planning permissions. [19351/22] - Housing Provision
610. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the nature of approved housing body and rental accommodation scheme leases; the average cost of such leases; the length of... - Environmental Schemes
615. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social housing retrofits by local authority per year from 2016 to 2021; the average cost of the retrofit per... - Housing Schemes
616. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the incremental purchase scheme revised arrangements will be in place in order that councils can process applications, as... - Vacant Properties
618. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the length of time a house must be derelict to qualify for a grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19508/22] - Housing Policy
619. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will include an identifier for medical priority need and a separate identifier for wheelchair liveability need in the... - Building Regulations
620. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to amend part M of the technical guidance documents of the building regulations to include wheelchair liveability... - Housing Provision
621. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if exemptions will be provided to persons to access a local authority loan scheme who have changed their marriage status and... - Departmental Staff
622. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide the details of the name, salary, position and roles of persons who are being paid for by his Department for... - Apprenticeship Programmes
623. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under his remit run apprenticeship programmes or are directly... - Housing Provision
624. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if consideration can be made for areas such as Ballymun, Dublin with a high percentage of social housing and in which there is... - Departmental Staff
625. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons employed by his Department and bodies under the aegis of his Department with a rate of pay below the... - Planning Issues
626. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of his plans to develop section 28 Guidelines for Planning Authorities on Sustainable and Compact Settlement... - Housing Schemes
627. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he intends introducing a means-tested housing repair grant similar to the housing aid for older people scheme for persons... - Traveller Accommodation
628. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the guidance he intends to issue to local authorities for the forthcoming mid-term review of the Traveller Accommodation... - Housing Policy
629. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a review of his housing plan is currently under way; when the review was agreed; the terms of office; the person or body... - Defective Building Materials
630. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the progress of the report of the independent Working Group on Defective Homes; and if he will... - Departmental Staff
631. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the salaries and expenses paid to advisers, Ministers and-or Ministers of State in his Department in 2020, 2021 and to date in... - Planning Issues
632. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is satisfied that all the board members of An Bord Pleanála are in compliance with section 106 (13)(d)(ii) of the... - Mayoral Election
635. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a commitment will be given to ensure that a vote on a directly elected mayor in Galway takes place in 2024 at the same time... - Departmental Staff
636. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will outline all of the secondment arrangements within his Department; the conditions related to such secondments; and... - Wildlife Protection
637. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if assurances will be given that his Department and the National Parks and Wildlife Service species’ derogation... - Land Issues
641. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if it is possible for unregistered lands to be registered and assigned a folio number; and if he will make a statement on the... - Departmental Staff
642. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under his remit facilitate internships by students engaged in... - Local Authorities
643. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the assistance available from his Department for specific actions for local authority tenants (details supplied); and if he... - Departmental Schemes
645. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he will take to ensure that persons who surrendered their home to the financial crisis but who did not enter... - Defective Building Materials
648. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the support that has been provided to approved housing bodies to remedy building defects; if approved housing bodies will be... - Housing Provision
649. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a new housing development currently progressing in Ennis (details supplied) is being developed with a view to having the... - Departmental Data
650. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of children’s playgrounds managed by each local authority in tabular form. [20206/22] - Waterways Issues
651. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a project (details supplied) can be continued given its importance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20213/22] - National Standards Authority of Ireland
652. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the timeline which the steering group NSAI Standardisation Programme - Masonry Construction that was established to oversee a... - Energy Usage
653. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the special measures his Department is taking to reduce energy usage in the scenario in which members of the public are being... - Legislative Programme
655. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has considered legislation to implement a compulsory sale order policy. [20376/22] - Vacant Properties
656. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has instructed local authorities to include targets for tackling vacancy in their forthcoming development plans. [20377/22] - Heritage Projects
661. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of full-time equivalent roles he funds for the Collaborative Town Health Check initiative; and the number he... - Departmental Funding
662. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if funding (details supplied) that has been allocated has been drawn down and spent; if there has been a follow up or... - Departmental Meetings
663. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of meetings of the Housing For All secretary delivery group that have taken place since September 2021; the persons... - Housing Policy
664. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he expects to decide on proposed changes and recommendations on income eligibility for social housing; and if he will... - Ukraine War
665. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the procedures for those who wish to sell property to the State, the HSE or local authorities in order to house Ukrainians... - Departmental Correspondence
667. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will review correspondence from (details supplied); if he will address the concerns raised; and if he will make a... - Rental Sector
668. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the method of calculation of the rental charge on 50 two-bedroom cost rental apartments delivered under the Housing for Aall... - Invasive Species Policy
669. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 262 of 3 March 2022, if he will provide a detailed breakdown of the different inputs and... - Departmental Staff
670. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of staff within his Department who availed of a secondment from January 2019 to date on the basis that it was not... - Turf Cutting
671. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has estimated the number of persons who continue to cut turf on bogs for domestic heating or the number of... - Foreshore Issues
672. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he anticipates additional resources will be allocated to his Department to address the backlog of foreshore licence... - Turf Cutting
673. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when a person (details supplied) will receive a payment under the turf cutting compensation scheme; and if he will make a... - Appointments to State Boards
675. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he intends to bring forward amendments to the legislation that underpins the appointment of members to An Bord... - Refugee Resettlement Programme
676. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has set up a standard process across local authorities for the provision of services to refugees from Ukraine; and if he... - Housing Schemes
677. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason that the self-help grant scheme has been discontinued by Kildare County Council for 2022; and if he will make a... - Defective Building Materials
679. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if approval will be given to the homeowners whose properties are affected by mica, pyrite and-or sulphate to be given 100%... - Housing Provision
680. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the breakdown, by local authority, of the affordable housing targets funded by the affordable housing fund from 2022 to 2026.... - Rental Sector
681. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the breakdown, by local authority, of the affordable cost rental housing targets funded by the cost rental equity loan from... - Planning Issues
682. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the monitoring carried out by his Department on the performance of An Bord Pleanála in deciding planning appeals within... - Housing Provision
683. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated number of local authority owned houses that are heated mainly by solid fuel, in tabular form; the number where... - Departmental Data
685. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average cost to the Exchequer in 2021 per unit of accommodation for (details supplied), in tabular form. [20870/22] - Homeless Persons Supports
687. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homeless persons who died in County Cork in 2021. [20917/22] - Appointments to State Boards
689. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current members of An Board Pleanála, the Minister who appointed each and the current remuneration of each, in... - National Biodiversity Plan
690. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the National Biodiversity Action Plan provides supports for biodiversity projects in counties Laois and Offaly; if not, the... - Residential Tenancies Board
691. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will ensure the Residential Tenancies Board is adequately resourced to deal with disputes in which the tenant does not... - Housing Policy
692. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a local authority can remove a person from the rent book of a social housing unit if they move to temporary accommodation,... - Cybersecurity Policy
693. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps taken by his Department and the Property Registration Authority to ensure the security of the data held by the PRA;... - Departmental Meetings
694. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the dates officials of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine contacted his Department and or met with officials... - Water Charges
695. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if Irish Water can charge consumers who fall within the scheme for water usage in circumstances in which a public group water... - Homeless Persons Supports
696. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide capital funding under the homeless budget for a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement... - Departmental Equipment
698. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a piece of surveillance technology (details supplied) is being used by his Department or any agencies under his remit in... - Homeless Persons Supports
699. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the latest calls to combat child homelessness by an organisation (details supplied) including ensuring that all...
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