Written answers

Tuesday, 16 May 2023

Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government

 
  • Rental Sector
    391. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to amend Part V rules to allow a tenant in situ to purchase their local authority property; and if he will make a...
  • Local Area Plans
    392. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of people waiting on local authority housing lists per local authority; the average waiting time per list; the use...
  • Defective Building Materials
    393. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will clarify the position on defective building materials; the agency responsible for oversight in this area; if he will...
  • Local Area Plans
    394. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a list of all stalled capital advance loan facility-funded social housing projects, indicating the local...
  • Housing Schemes
    395. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 337 of 25 April 2023, when he will issue a circular to local authorities setting out the...
  • Building Regulations
    396. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a list of all organisations and individuals that have made a submission to his Department’s review...
  • Departmental Policies
    397. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department’s policy to remove a social housing applicant from choice-based letting for a year following a first...
  • Homeless Persons Supports
    398. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the specific supports available to those accessing homelessness services and who are in employment; and if he will make a...
  • Commercial Rates
    399. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the Government’s plans for the abolition of rates, in view of the recommendation of the Commission of Taxation for the...
  • Water Charges
    401. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has plans to assist people who are building houses and who started prior to 25 April 2023 and waiver water charges due...
  • Housing Policy
    402. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has considered creating a housing information office to provide a centralised space for people to go to when seeking...
  • Rental Sector
    403. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider amending the regulations underpinning the tenant purchase scheme to expand eligibility for persons in...
  • Water Supply
    405. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if supplemental funding could be increased to enable a community water connection (details supplied) to proceed in order that...
  • International Protection
    406. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the engagement, if any, he has had with the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth and the Dublin...
  • Housing Schemes
    407. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the revised guidelines and application forms for the croí cónaithe scheme will be released following recent...
  • Mayoral Election
    408. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide details of the progress made in establishing a democratically-elected mayor for Limerick; when the people...
  • Electoral Process
    409. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason citizens completing register-to-vote forms are now required to pay for postage, when previously such forms could be...
  • Housing Provision
    410. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will urgently intervene to ensure that a property is prepared and allocated by a housing body (details supplied). [22751/23]
  • Housing Schemes
    411. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applications and approvals for the first home scheme that have been made in counties Kerry, Cork, Limerick,...
  • Traveller Accommodation
    412. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether it is intended to re-open the caravan loan scheme in 2023; when it is likely this scheme will open, in view of the...
  • Departmental Schemes
    413. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that new applications for housing adaptation grants within the Louth County...
  • Derelict Sites
    415. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what powers he has to compel local authorities to form a vacant sites register; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Housing Provision
    418. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the 15 AHB housing units (details supplied) approved for construction in Ballyglass Road, Howth, Fingal, in July 2015 have...
  • Rental Sector
    427. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline the process for allocating cost rental properties managed by approved housing associations, in particular, given...
  • Social Media
    428. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the percentage of social media posts made on each of his Departmental social media accounts or the social media accounts of...
  • Equality Issues
    429. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how his Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under his remit meet their obligations for reasonable...
  • Fire Safety
    430. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of requests his Department has received from Dublin City Council seeking funding to purchase additional emergency...
  • Tourism Policy
    431. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on permitting flexibility in planning laws to enable guesthouse owners set up on-set pods as additional bedrooms to...
  • Housing Provision
    432. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the certification documents required by Approved Housing Bodies in a case (details supplied) before new units can be occupied;...
  • Vacant Properties
    433. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if flexibility will be granted on the 24-month vacancy criteria for the refurbishing vacant home grant scheme for an...
  • Development Contributions
    434. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when details will be given regarding the removal of the development levy for one-off housing; the conditions relating to its...
  • Vacant Properties
    435. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a person who has a pending vacant property refurbishment grant application as their principal residence submitted to their...

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