• Environmental Policy
  765.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures his Department has taken to address the bloom of bluegreen algae in Lough Neagh as 400km2 of the lake’s...
• Housing Policy
  766.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline the growth in population and in the housing stock from 2016 to 2022 across the regional categories identified in the...
• Budget 2025
  767.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if, as part of Budget 2025, he will consider increasing the rates of the mortgage allowance scheme which supports local...
• Housing Schemes
  768.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason the maximum grant for housing aid for older persons is less than it is in SI 670/2007, where the grant specified is...
• Defective Building Materials
  769.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the enhanced defective concrete block scheme covers the cost if a property is damaged during the demolition of a...
• Departmental Bodies
  771.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the backlog of cases with the land registry; the average wait time for case decisions; if he would consider an...
• Housing Provision
  772.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of a development in Carlow (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.[33863/24]
• National Parks and Wildlife Service
  774.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the convening of the nature advisory committee, that is, the NPWS stakeholder forum, by the NPWS; who...
• Wildlife Regulations
  775.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he plans to make any changes to the Open Seasons Order this year.[33880/24]
• Departmental Schemes
  776.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider an update to the first home scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.[33891/24]
• Departmental Data
  777.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will instruct all local authorities to confirm the number that have applied under the fresh start principal; and the...
• Departmental Schemes
  778.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 253 of 11 July 2024, if he will revisit his response and provide direct clarification...
• Departmental Legal Cases
  779.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total cost to the State of legal representation in the case of Heneghan v the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local...
• Departmental Schemes
  780.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on when payments will be made to owner management companies via the Housing Agency under the...
• Local Authorities
  781.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if Departmental funding for local authority staff, including housing staff, remains with the local authority where there are...
• Programme for Government
  782.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the implementation of the programme for Government commitments under the remit of his Department.[34012/24]
• Departmental Funding
  783.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to list all housing agencies, AHBs and charities that currently receive public funding.[34028/24]
• Defective Building Materials
  784.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the support available to homeowners affected by pyrite and are availing of the enhanced defective concrete blocks scheme, who...
• Departmental Funding
  785.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total expenditure in 2023 on social and affordable housing, funded through SHIP, CALF, CAS, AHF, CREL, AHB borrowing and...
• Departmental Data
  786.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of council-owned properties retrofitted in terms of insulation, windows, heating systems and so on, in counties...
• Housing Provision
  787.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of requests from local authorities for funding for acquisitions and for voids that have been refused or put on hold...
• Planning Issues
  788.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 1038 of 23 July 2024, to what extent, if any, MARA has a role in reviewing offshore wind...
• Housing Policy
  789.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Cork County Council have no policy for the housing of people who have been...
• Heritage Sites
  790.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to access issues and remediation works needed at a location (details supplied); and if he will...
• Departmental Programmes
  791.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the next funding for the Multi-Annual Rural Water Programme will be allocated; and if he will make a statement on the...
• Defective Building Materials
  792.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the percentage of defective block and deleterious material in a house that is allowed for a house to be considered for the...
• Departmental Schemes
  793.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there are any imminent or recently issued revised guidelines for local authorities and AHBs with respect to the social and...
• Departmental Programmes
  794.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the review of the qualifying criteria for well-water grants administered through local authorities; if an...
• Waterways Ireland
  795.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government in view of the stated objectives of the Waterways Ireland Ten Year Plan 2024, and overall government policy regarding greener...
• Departmental Bodies
  796.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated cost of increasing the number of full-time equivalent staff at the National Building Control Office to 20,...
• Wildlife Protection
  797.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on a manufacturing matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34252/24]
• Rental Sector
  798.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps open to a landlord or tenant if they are not satisfied with the manner in which the RTB has handled an issue and they...
• Departmental Funding
  799.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there is any grants/assistance available to a group (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34337/24]
• Departmental Bodies
  800.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update through the Local Government Management Agency and the National Town Centre First office in respect of the...
• Departmental Data
  801.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 303 of 28 May 2024, the position regarding the review of the suite engineering...
• Housing Policy
  802.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if Housing for All targets will be reviewed and updated, given the significant migration in recent years; if funding will be...
• National Monuments
  803.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress that has been made on the National Monuments Service review of the Brú na Bóinne Research Framework...
• Commercial Rates
  804.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether rates must be paid on a portacabin, used for storage by a business, but placed on personal land.[34426/24]
• Fire Stations
  805.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the timeline for the delivery of a fire station in Clonburris.[34440/24]
• Departmental Contracts
  807.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the names of external HR specialists firms his Department has used in 2023 and to-date in 2024 in tabular form.[34480/24]
• Building Energy Rating
  808.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline the process through which BER assessments are carried out is regulated; the process when a BER assessment is found...
• Housing Schemes
  809.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of cost-rental tenant-in-situ scheme requests received by each respective local authority; the number successfully...
• Wind Energy Guidelines
  810.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to confirm the SEA of revised WEDGs has adequately assessed the potential impact on wind turbine noise on human health; and if...
• Housing Schemes
  813.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applications made to the local authority home loan scheme in respect of applicants in Galway city since January...
• Nitrates Usage
  820.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 668 of 20 March 2024, for an update on the 2023 Interim Review of the State’s...
• Planning Issues
  821.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the report (details supplied) into allegations of malpractice at An Bord Pleanála; the expected timeline for...
• Housing Policy
  822.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1997 was intended to disallow a person on a probation bond from access to the...
• Housing Schemes
  823.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a detailed response outlining the schedule of meetings and proposed work of the Housing and Justice...
• Official Travel
  824.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of flights he has taken to or from Shannon Airport, Cork Airport and Knock Airport since assuming office.[34760/24]
• Parking Provision
  825.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on revised planning guidelines, to specifically outline the number of parking spaces per household in city...
• Capital Expenditure Programme
  826.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on Construction of the Narrow Water Bridge; to provide the total allocation; the expenditure to date; the amount...
• Water Services
  831.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason a 25 house minimum has been put on rural group water schemes, if this decision will be reversed (details supplied);...
• Rental Sector
  832.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to legislate to ensure that so-called co-living tenancies come under rent pressure zone laws; his views on the need...
• Vacant Properties
  834.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has permitted the sale or intends to permit the sale or approved payment to occupiers to vacate of properties in Somerton...
• Departmental Staff
  836.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of political staff employed in his Department, including parliamentary assistants, secretarial assistants, special...
• Ministerial Staff
  838.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of the expenses paid to ministerial advisers in his Department in each of the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and to...
• Housing Provision
  839.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how the updated National Planning Framework envisages the future split in house building across the categories of: rural...
• National Development Plan
  840.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how he envisages that the investment plans developed in the new ten-year county development plans will interact with the...
• House Prices
  841.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has undertaken work to establish how the price of a second-hand residence compares with the price of a new...
• Vacant Properties
  842.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of vacant or void local authority houses in each local authority at the beginning of 2024; the number of these that...
• Animal Welfare
  843.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider a phase out of elephants at Dublin Zoo, given that there is sufficient evidence (details supplied) that...
• Housing Schemes
  845.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applications received under the domestic lead remediation grant scheme in the years of 2023 and to-date in 2024...
• Land Issues
  846.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding the total quantum of land that would fall under the Residential Zoned Land Tax, broken down by local...
• Rental Sector
  847.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason that when a HAP tenant who has been served notice-to-quit, stops paying their share of the rent and this...
• Housing Provision
  848.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding the number of appeals upheld to rezone land; previously zoned for housing, falling under the scope of...
• Capital Expenditure Programme
  849.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when funding will be allocated from the capital budget to undertake works (details supplied); and if he will make a statement...
• Invasive Species Policy
  850.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the use of cherry laurel in Ireland; if it should be recognised as an invasive species; and if he will make a...
• Departmental Licences
  853.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of a hunting renewal licence application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
• Housing Provision
  854.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to reassess the inclusion of the working family payment in the income assessment for qualification for local...
• Electoral Process
  855.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the research in relation to lowering the voting age to 16 years; and if he will make a statement on the...
• Fire Safety
  857.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to examine an issue surrounding fire safety in a development (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
• Rental Sector
  858.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how co-living is defined in legislation in terms of the minimum length of stay below which it is no longer a co-living tenancy...
• Housing Schemes
  860.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the action being taken to ensure single applicants to the affordable housing scheme get equal opportunities and consideration...
• House Prices
  861.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has carried out an estimate of the number of homes in the pipeline for affordable purchase in Dublin; if so,...
• Housing Provision
  862.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of units currently under design and construction in Dublin 9 and Dublin 11 under Housing for All.[35439/24]
• Rental Sector
  863.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of HAP tenancies in each of the years 2019 to 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form.[35440/24]
• Capital Expenditure Programme
  864.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total funding allocated by his Department to the conservation project at a location (details supplied).[35442/24]
• Local Authorities
  865.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way his Department is supporting local authorities to purchase and renovate closed shops and other commercial premises in...
• Vacant Properties
  866.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans, if any, to amend the croí cónaithe vacant property refurbishment grant; if he has considered the...
• Work Permits
  868.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if people in Ireland on work permits are included in the homeless figures supplied by his office; and if only those entitled to...
• Rental Sector
  870.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if legislation will be amended in respect to the RTB whereby if the landlord has a letting agent, that agent is not subject to...
• Housing Schemes
  872.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if funding is available to local authorities to construct homes suitable for elderly persons who are living in rural areas in...
• Rental Sector
  873.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason landlords are obliged to provide the Residential Tenancies Board with a copy of a termination of tenancy notice, if...
• Legislative Measures
  874.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will move immediately to strengthen the provisions of the Planning and Development Bill 2023 on provision of rights of...
• Solar Energy Guidelines
  875.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 630 of 25 July 2023, if he has reflected on the possible need to develop specific...
• Renewable Energy Generation
  876.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to develop agricultural land classifications for solar and battery storage such as in place in other jurisdictions;...
• Housing Provision
  877.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to increase the supply of social housing to support the decongregation of over 260 people living in congregated settings and...
• Departmental Data
  878.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of heat pumps installed with regard to the retrofitting of social housing in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024; the...
• Housing Provision
  883.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has allocated funds to any local authority specifically to assist with the acquisition and delivery of...
• Housing Schemes
  884.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the accommodation recognition payment is taken into account when calculating the differential rent of a tenant in receipt of...
• Planning Issues
  885.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason elected county councillors are being blocked from attending pre-planning meetings with constituents by some local...
• Traveller Accommodation
  886.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of funding drawn down for Traveller-specific accommodation in County Clare in the years 2020 to 2023 and to date in...
• Housing Provision
  887.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason for the delays in processing housing applications and HMD1 forms by local authorities, with a current waiting list...
• Departmental Funding
  888.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an increase of current expenditure to Clare County Council to meet the specified requirement (details supplied); and...
• Water Services
  889.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the 16-week wait time for pre-planning applications of water connectivity with Uisce Éireann.[35806/24]
• Housing Policy
  894.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the house price caps that apply under first homes, and under the local authority home loan; and if he has plans to adjust...
• Housing Schemes
  896.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current interest charged on local authority home loans and on the outstanding equity under first homes; the way these are...
• Land Development Agency
  900.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will clarify the remit of the Land Development Agency.[35967/24]

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