Written answers
Tuesday, 23 July 2024
Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
- Invasive Species Policy
1002.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to list the initiatives and the funding spent by his Department in the past ten years to rid the country of invasive species... - Local Authorities
1003.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of local property tax that is issued back to each relevant local authority, in each county [32119/24] - Departmental Projects
1004.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress to date in advancing projects under the shared island initiative (details supplied). [32657/24] - Local Authorities
1006.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated cost of providing one additional procurement officer for each local authority, in tabular form. [33382/24] - Environmental Policy
1007.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures being taken to preserve natural habitats and biodiversity in east Cork. [33414/24] - Defective Building Materials
1008.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of enhanced defective block scheme applications received from owners who purchased properties after the... - Land Development Agency
1009.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total capitalisation provided to the Land Development Agency (LDA) to date; the LDA’s total borrowing capacity; his... - Departmental Reports
1010.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the publication schedule for the Mulcahy report; and if he will make a statement on the... - Housing Schemes
1011.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of croí cónaithe cities applications made to date; the number of approvals; the number of drawdowns; the... - Planning Issues
1012.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of planning applications received, by county for wind or solar farms in the past five years; the number that were... - Waterways Ireland
1014.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what is done with tents removed from the canal in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30909/24] - Departmental Funding
1015.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on a funding matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30921/24] - Housing Schemes
1016.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total amount allocated to housing adaptation grants in Cork city and Cork county in 2023; and if he will make a statement... - Rental Sector
1017.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 month of 2024 to... - Housing Schemes
1018.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social housing inspections that were carried out by all local authorities in each month of 2024 to date, in... - Waterways Ireland
1021.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will instruct Waterways Ireland to provide water tap services, pump out machines, postal services and refuse services... - Traveller Accommodation
1023.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of funding drawn down by each housing authority for Traveller accommodation in each of the past ten years, per... - Approved Housing Bodies
1026.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the work of the Approved Housing Body Classification Working Group; the number of meetings the group has had to... - Local Authorities
1027.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide the breakdown, by local authority of the revenue raised from commercial rates and other service charges in 2022 and... - Wildlife Conservation
1028.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department will ensure that there is a wildlife ranger urgently put in north Tipperary (details supplied); and if he... - Housing Schemes
1029.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has had any consultations with visually impaired persons regarding the installation of heat pumps as part of... - Domestic Violence
1031.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 1062 of 17 January 2024, the current capital spend allocated to the construction of new... - Derelict Sites
1032.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 281 of 1 February 2024, if he will provide a more recent breakdown of those sites in... - Fire Stations
1033.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 449 of 12 December 2023, to provide an update on the provision of a new fire station in... - Postal Voting
1034.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if postal voting will be made an option in future for people who are away on holiday at election times (details supplied).... - Departmental Reports
1035.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the subject matter of departmental reports which are pending publication; and the timeline for publication of each of these... - Housing Provision
1036.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on progress in respect of negotiations in respect of the proposed development at the former Irish Glass... - Housing Schemes
1037.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the regeneration of all social housing flat complexes in Dublin 2, respectively. [31269/24] - Planning Issues
1038.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide details on how planning decisions will be made for proposed offshore wind farm schemes; if the relationship... - Housing Schemes
1039.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of applicants for Rebuilding Ireland home loans and local authority home loans from Limerick; the total... - Vacant Properties
1040.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has invited Limerick Council to make an application for the vacant properties (voids) programme; if such an application... - Departmental Data
1041.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of mortgage-to-rent applications to date in 2024 through approved housing bodies, local authorities and Home for... - Vacant Sites
1042.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total amount collected, by local authority, in the vacant sites levy since the levy was established, by year, in tabular... - Legislative Programme
1043.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on legislative amendments to allow for the renaming of streets. [31350/24] - Local Authorities
1044.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of WTE vacant homes officers employed, by local authority, in tabular form. [31351/24] - Departmental Legal Cases
1045.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of legal cases taken by his Department, or by State agencies or bodies under his Department's aegis, against... - Rental Sector
1046.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government given that the Housing For All plan includes a target for rented accommodation to be inspected every four years, the number of... - Wildlife Conservation
1047.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if, in the context of the deaths of two young female elephants at Dublin Zoo, he will enter into discussions with Dublin Zoo,... - Electoral Process
1048.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if all polling stations will be fully disability-accessible; and if not, if he will ensure that persons affected are given an... - Planning Issues
1049.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the provision that has been extended by statutory instrument to permit the construction of designated accommodation centres to... - Wildlife Regulations
1050.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on a matter (details supplied). [31451/24] - Wastewater Treatment
1059.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an overview of works planned to address wastewater sewage deficiencies in Ardnacrusha, County Clare; when... - Post Office Network
1060.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will examine a pilot project where local authority payments could be paid via a local post office. [31491/24] - Housing Schemes
1066.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the case will be examined for extending the croí cónaithe scheme work completion deadline, beyond the current 13... - Electoral Process
1070.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of people, who are 18 and over, not registered to vote, per county, in tabular form. [31601/24] - Housing Schemes
1071.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the housing adaptation grants for older people and people with a disability through the HGD, HOP and MAG will be increased... - Legislative Process
1072.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the timeline for the passage of the Planning and Development Bill 2023; and if he will make a statement on... - Water Services
1073.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the alternative solutions available to a group water scheme (details supplied) if it does not fit the criteria for funding... - Defective Building Materials
1074.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of the serious financial impact the changes made to the enhanced home energy upgrade grant recently announced... - Fire Safety
1075.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of owner management companies currently in stage 3 of the interim remediation scheme for fire safety defects... - Housing Schemes
1076.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current limit of equity that can be provided under the affordable purchase scheme, both in cash terms per unit and as a... - Local Area Plans
1077.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures being taken to build communities where construction is underway by local authorities under Housing for All. [31885/24] - Planning Issues
1078.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of any engagement with An Bord Pleanála regarding bike storage proposals in front of homes. [31892/24] - Housing Policy
1079.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department, or Kerry County Council, have engaged either of two companies (details supplied) regarding the purchase and... - Housing Schemes
1080.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there is a valuation ceiling on 'cost-rental tenant-in-situ', and how it is calculated; and if there are any other options... - Water Services
1081.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the full cost to the Exchequer of the development levy and water connection waiver in 2023; and the estimated full cost of the... - Invasive Species Policy
1082.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the action that has been taken by his Department to limit the spread of the invasive species rhododendron in Ireland given the... - Housing Provision
1085.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of housing units delivered in County Galway, broken down by social and affordable housing units on a yearly basis... - Housing Schemes
1087.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total funding provided for HAP supports in County Galway, broken down for each municipal area since 2020, in tabular form;... - Water Services
1088.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will review the level of subsidies paid to rural group water schemes; if he plans to increase the subsidy to take into... - Heritage Council
1089.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current and capital funding allocated to the Heritage Council in 2022, 2023 and 2024, in tabular form. [32069/24] - Urban Development
1090.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he expects the next call for the urban regeneration and development fund will be made; and if he will make a statement on... - Local Authorities
1092.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the direct State funding other than the local property tax which each local authority received for each of the past ten years;... - Water Services
1093.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he expects to approve and roll out the Multi-Annual Rural Water Programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter.... - Local Authorities
1094.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the date his Department received a request from Westmeath County Council for approval of an extension greater than... - Housing Policy
1096.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures his Department is taking to ensure affordable housing is provided in Cavan and Monaghan. [32172/24] - Local Authorities
1097.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the extension of the local authority home loan to include derelict properties; and when this scheme will be open... - Register of Electors
1098.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether the register of electors is regularly checked against a register of deaths; and if not, the work his Department is... - Housing Policy
1099.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he is taking to strengthen and reform the powers available to local authorities to tackle the housing crisis at... - Departmental Reviews
1105.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if an urgent review can be conducted of the differential rent scheme nationwide. [32434/24] - Housing Schemes
1106.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if an urgent review can be conducted of the administration of the HAP nationwide; and his views on whether the scheme is still... - Housing Provision
1109.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide year-to-date housing supply figures for County Westmeath under various categories (details supplied), in... - Housing Policy
1110.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will launch and oversee an audit of mould in public housing and in accommodation leased by the State or paid for through... - Housing Provision
1111.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average cost of acquiring 1, 2, 3 and 4-bed homes, per unit in Dublin under the various different acquisitions programmes... - Housing Policy
1118.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated full year cost to the Exchequer of increasing income limits for social housing by 20%; and if he will make a... - Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence
1119.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated full year cost of providing enough women’s refuge places to bring Ireland in line with our commitments... - Homeless Accommodation
1121.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated full-year cost of providing emergency accommodation for homeless people in 2025; and if he will make a statement... - Traveller Accommodation
1123.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the full year cost of doubling Traveller specific accommodation capacity. [32507/24] - Traveller Community
1124.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated full year cost of establishing a Traveller ombudsman. [32508/24] - Housing Schemes
1125.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated full year cost of increasing HAP limits to the average cost of rents in each area; and if he will make a... - Local Authorities
1126.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated full cost of retrofitting all local authority owned homes by 2030 and the estimated average cost per home in... - Derelict Sites
1127.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the expected revenue yield from an increase in the derelict site levy to 20% in a full year; and if he will make a statement... - Defective Building Materials
1130.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated cost of 100% redress for mica affected homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32515/24] - Local Authorities
1134.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of funding sought and awarded to Wicklow County Council for retrofitting works for local authority homes for 2023... - Housing Policy
1135.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he intends on reviewing and making changes to the social housing income thresholds; and if he will make a statement on the... - Housing Schemes
1137.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he expects HAP rates to be reviewed, given the ever-increasing rise in private rentals, even where rent pressure zones... - Housing Provision
1138.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of people on the social housing lists in counties Louth and Meath. [32735/24] - Departmental Data
1139.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of people who are homeless in counties Louth and Meath, respectively. [32737/24] - Water Quality
1141.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the work being undertaken by his Department to improve bathing water quality. [32798/24] - Building Regulations
1142.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the requirements currently in place for developers to ensure accessible footpaths are provided. [32805/24] - Vacant Properties
1143.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of vacant properties in each county; the number owned by the State; and the number in private ownership, in tabular... - Housing Schemes
1146.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current total number of HAP tenancies as of the end of June 2024; an up-to-date breakdown of that number, by local... - Departmental Data
1147.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the budget for housing adaptation grants in 2024; the budget for every year since 2016; the number of individual homes... - Rental Sector
1148.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the regulations that are currently in place to protect tenants, including local authority tenants, from living in a property... - Housing Policy
1149.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if local authority properties require occupational therapists to review properties before they are assigned to tenants with... - Wastewater Treatment
1151.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the progress made since the announcement of the inclusion of Broadford and Cooraclare for wastewater... - Housing Schemes
1152.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress made on the tenant incremental purchase scheme as operated by Clare County Council since its implementation; and... - Local Authorities
1154.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of houses that have been allocated to local authorities under Part V of the Planning and Development Act 2000; and... - Departmental Projects
1155.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total funding provided to date by his Department and through other Departments and agencies towards the development of a... - Coastal Zone Management
1156.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a full update on each of the fifteen recommendations contained in the Interdepartmental Group on National Coastal... - Housing Schemes
1159.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has reviewed why the Cois Farraige affordable housing scheme offered by Louth County Council was not... - Construction Industry
1160.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if an assessment has been or is being carried out on the modern methods of construction used at a housing project at Grange... - Housing Schemes
1162.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the fact that new three-bed houses in Dundalk, currently as of 18 July 2024 available for sale, are all over the... - Housing Policy
1164.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason retrofitting targets in Louth local authority are lower this year than last year; and if he will make a statement... - Housing Schemes
1165.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of properties purchased through Louth County Council under the tenant-in-situ purchase scheme; the total... - Vacant Properties
1166.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to address the situation of dereliction in Drogheda; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33217/24] - Housing Provision
1167.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the plans for the Grand Canal Graving Dock site; if he will support the site being used for affordable and public housing; and... - Local Authorities
1169.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of his Department’s engagement with Galway City Council with regard to the council’s plans to... - Housing Policy
1172.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 75 of 30 May 2024, the details of his and his Department’s engagement with the... - Planning Issues
1173.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 122 of 30 May 2024, the timeline for the publication of the draft planning guidelines... - Housing Schemes
1175.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government with regard to home adaptation grants, if there are plans to include MS sufferers amongst those eligible for adaptation... - Planning Issues
1177.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of An Bord Pleanála decisions that have been waiting more than 12 months; and if he will make a statement on... - Housing Provision
1178.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of residential voids within social housing stock for each of the local authorities throughout the country at... - Commercial Rates
1180.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the losses in rates Longford County Council suffered year-on-year upon the closure of the Lanesborough power station; and if... - Local Authorities
1181.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when local authorities will be permitted to enter new rental accommodation scheme contracts; and if he will make a statement... - Rental Sector
1183.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of the precarious situation of many renters in the State who live with their landlord and are not legally... - Planning Issues
1185.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of comments made (details supplied) about the regularisation of all unauthorised developments, and of plans to... - Housing Policy
1187.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the full-year cost to increase the house building targets to 56,000 per annum, in line with the recommendations from the... - Local Authorities
1190.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the full details of the different streams of funding for local authorities and the areas in which this money can be spent; and... - Housing Provision
1195.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider a fund for local authorities to draw down funding to complete housing estates after a certain period of... - Housing Schemes
1197.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social homes sold through the tenant purchase scheme since 2020, broken down by quarter and by local authority;... - Wastewater Treatment
1198.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on Ireland’s progress with the directive (details supplied); the funding he is identifying to... - Departmental Staff
1200.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average cost for hiring a full-time professional archaeologist. [33524/24] - Housing Provision
1202.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average length of time spent on the social housing list in County Cavan and County Monaghan; the plans to reduce these... - Departmental Programmes
1206.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for a breakdown of the total number of units retrofitted, by local authority area, for each of the past five years. [33640/24] - Regeneration Projects
1208.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the progress of the regeneration of Noonan's Road and the surrounding streets. [33642/24] - Homeless Persons Supports
1213.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of people who presented as homeless to Mayo County Council in 2023 and were either turned away or issued vouchers... - Regeneration Projects
1215.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total amount of urban regeneration and development fund funding issued to Fingal County Council in relation to the Dunsink... - Wastewater Treatment
1217.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide funding for Uisce éireann for the urgent progression and development of wastewater treatment plants identified... - Water Supply
1220.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to engage with Uisce éireann to address the unnecessary wait for water connections; and if he will make a statement on... - Disability Services
1221.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current requirements for local authorities to provide in-person assistance to disabled people and older people to enable... - Defective Building Materials
1222.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when an IT problem will be resolved that is preventing new applications to the enhanced defective concrete blocks grant scheme...
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