Written answers
Wednesday, 20 September 2023
Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
- National Parks
399. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has engaged in discussions with relevant persons with regard to the potential purchase of the Conor Pass; to... - Rental Sector
400. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of private rented accommodation inspections that were carried out by all local authorities in each of the years... - Planning Issues
401. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide details, in tabular form, of the number of An Bord Pleanála planning appeals have been waiting more than a... - Local Authorities
403. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he expects the role Chief Executive of Dublin City Council will be advertised by the Public Appointments Service; and... - Industrial Disputes
405. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline the Government's position with respect to industrial action (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on... - Planning Issues
406. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if guidance is provided to local authorities for consideration of planning applications in rural areas relating to log... - Local Authorities
409. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of staff in each local authority in each of the past five years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement... - Housing Provision
410. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the affordable housing at a location (details supplied) will be open for applicants; how individuals can go about... - Defective Building Materials
411. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether Wexford County Council will become a designated local authority under the Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the use... - Invasive Species Policy
412. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will advise on measures his Department is taking to prevent the arrival of the Asian hornet in Ireland; and if he will... - Tax Code
413. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will publish the methodology used by the working group in respect of the review of the allocation of baseline funding in... - Emergency Accommodation
414. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether local connections rules apply to those presenting for emergency accommodation; and whether this is an acceptable... - Departmental Communications
416. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he intends to publish a 'how members of local authorities are elected' guide in Ukrainian; if such a guide is available;... - EU Directives
417. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to detail the preparations being undertaken by his Department in advance of the European Accessibility Act (Directive (EU)... - Legislative Measures
418. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update to the response received from An Taoiseach in early May 2023 to this Deputy’s Question on... - Local Authorities
419. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the additional €75.4 million increase in local property tax funding to local authorities in 2024 has come from... - Departmental Schemes
420. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of contracts approved by his Department to be signed by the Housing Agency under the croí cónaithe... - Defective Building Materials
421. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of new applications for the defective block remediation scheme since the enhanced schemed opened; the number of... - Departmental Reports
423. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason no Q1 social housing pipeline report was published this year; and when the Q2 report will be published. [39706/23] - Planning Issues
424. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of new positions sanctioned at An Bord Pleánála in the past 12 months; the positions granted; the... - Emergency Accommodation
425. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the review of guidance for local authorities in relation to assisting victims of domestic violence with... - Rental Sector
427. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a landlord requires their tenant to run a dehumidifier 24/7 to prevent growth/spread of mould, whether the landlord or... - Housing Schemes
428. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the criteria on the price limit of properties for acquisition under the local authority and cost rental tenant-in-situ... - Rental Sector
429. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider extending the rent pressure zone across the country to all areas. [39734/23] - Water Services
430. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39761/23] - Housing Schemes
431. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether the income thresholds for housing adaptation grants for older people and people with a disability will be increased.... - Defective Building Materials
432. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has engaged with the Minister for Finance on the requests from homeowners affected by defective blocks that the works... - Planning Issues
433. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to explain the long delay in the publication of the draft rural planning guidelines; and to state when these guidelines will... - Housing Schemes
434. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to set out in tabular form the progress to date with both the social and cost-rental tenant-in-situ schemes, including number... - Foreshore Issues
437. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when a decision will issue in relation to a foreshore licence application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement... - Housing Policy
438. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a rebate will be made available to people who paid development contributions on planning permission prior to April 2023 and... - Building Regulations
439. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if any reviews or studies have been conducted by his Department into the use of reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete in the... - Housing Provision
440. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the 33 local authority housing units approved for construction in a location (details supplied) have finished construction;... - Fire Service
501. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of funding requests that his Department has received from Meath County Council seeking additional funding to... - Housing Schemes
502. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will extend the croí cónaithe grant timeframe from 13 to 18 months; and if he will make a statement on the... - Planning Issues
504. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 888 of 11 September 2023, the date the comprehensive set of queries were sent to the... - Housing Schemes
505. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if, following the Cabinet decision in May 2023 to extend the rent-a-room scheme to all housing types, including local... - Housing Provision
508. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to carry out a review into the management of Part V social housing, given the management of Part V social housing in a... - Planning Issues
509. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current decision time for appeals to An Bord Pleanála for single housing projects; the current decision time for... - Defective Building Materials
510. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will confirm plans to open an enhanced defective concrete blocks scheme for local authority houses; and if he will make... - Building Regulations
511. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will establish with the National Standards Authority of Ireland when it will issue a clear directive on the acceptable... - Wastewater Treatment
513. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government in a housing development with developer-provided infrastructure for wastewater treatment plants that cannot be connected to a... - Rental Sector
515. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to set out the rules or guidelines issued to the Housing Agency for the cost rental tenant-in-situ income eligibility test;... - Departmental Meetings
516. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the date of the past six regional homeless consultative forum meetings for the Munster region. [40154/23] - Departmental Funding
517. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the annual funding provided to the regional homeless consultative forum for the Munster region. [40155/23] - Housing Schemes
519. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average allocation per house under the EERP funding scheme; if local authorities are required to submit an overall spend... - Local Authorities
522. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if local authorities can directly employ apprentices; and if so, the number of these employed, by local authority. [40175/23] - Housing Policy
523. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of significant issues with particular flat complexes in Cork constructed in the 1960s under the design of city... - Departmental Strategies
526. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide details on the measures his Department has taken to implement specific action points (details supplied) of the... - Housing Policy
528. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a breakdown, in tabular form, of the number of requests by each county and to each local authority for the right to... - Housing Schemes
529. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a person can apply for the local authority home loan if ground works have already started. [40330/23] - Housing Provision
530. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the high levels of vacancy in local authority social housing units; his plans to ensure that social housing is... - Departmental Reports
531. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a list of all studies, research and reports commissioned by his Department that were outsourced, in each year since... - Emergency Accommodation
532. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline the annual capital spend by the Dublin Region Homeless Executive in each year since 2005 of acquiring new emergency... - Recycling Policy
534. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of public water bottle refill stations which have been installed to date, by location, in tabular form; and to... - Defective Building Materials
535. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on discussions between the banking industry and his own Department in relation to support for... - Vacant Properties
536. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of croí cónaithe vacant property refurbishment grants that have been approved; the reason that an... - Housing Provision
538. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the 24 local authority housing units approved for construction in a location (details supplied) have finished construction;... - Housing Policy
600. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how many applications have been made to appeal the inclusion of agricultural land in the RZLT; how many have been refused; and... - Fire Service
602. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government of the €61 million capital allocation towards the fire service capital programme 2021-2025, the amount that has been...
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