Written answers
Wednesday, 18 September 2024
Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
- Housing Schemes
366. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the provisions available for MS sufferers to avail of housing adaptation grants, such as bathroom conversions, etc. to enable... - Traveller Accommodation
368. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when it is proposed to re-open the caravan loan scheme; the reason for the delay with this when many Traveller families are... - Housing Schemes
369. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide for housing adaptation grants to allow for eligibility for the cost of necessary equipment for children... - Rental Sector
370. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the safeguards that have been put in place to ensure that tenants living in multi-unit dwellings owned by real estate... - Artificial Intelligence
372. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has a policy, or has issued guidance to staff on the use of artificial intelligence, large language model,... - Housing Policy
374. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if social welfare money can be taken into account when a tenant wishes to secure a local authority loan to purchase their... - Public Services Provision
375. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if, under section 26 of the Disability Act 2005, each public body is required to have an access officer; the number and which... - Housing Provision
376. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social housing units that have been provided for disabled people in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024,... - Housing Policy
377. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if it is correct to calculate a studio apartment as one dwelling unit of density, when calculating the correct density, in... - Vacant Sites
378. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount levied, paid, collected, owed, cumulatively owed, assessed value of sites, number of sites, the number of new sites... - Rental Sector
379. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will publish the work which was undertaken by the Housing Agency to examine the creation of a system of holding rental... - Housing Schemes
381. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the financial assistance or schemes open to persons (details supplied) to help them acquire a family home; and if he will make... - National Planning Framework
382. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the view of industry representative groups and civil society groups in Limerick and the... - Housing Schemes
383. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the terms of the State-backed local authority loan mortgage protection scheme; if a verdict of death by suicide by one member... - Housing Policy
384. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he will take to reduce the number of guesthouses in Dublin city facilitated by a company (details supplied); and if... - Departmental Staff
385. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of WTE architects employed by his Department in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, by grade, in tabular form. [36497/24] - Housing Schemes
386. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if local authorities have a funding ceiling for the tenant-in-situ scheme; if not, if his Department will fund as many... - Homeless Accommodation
387. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the nationality of persons who have registered as homeless in each of the past five years. [36528/24] - Land Issues
388. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the quantum of land zoned under the residential zoned land tax; the quantum of that land being actively farmed, if known; if... - Housing Provision
389. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of home completions in Tullow, County Carlow; the number of vacant properties brought back into use in Tullow; the... - Vacant Properties
392. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department provides any specific funding to local authorities for the purposes of refurbishment of vacant social... - Planning Issues
393. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average length of time that a planning permission applicant for a single house has waited for a decision from An Bord... - State Bodies
395. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of persons working in An Bord Pleanála. [36605/24] - Land Issues
398. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average cost of a half-acre site zoned for residential use in rural Ireland, excluding cities. [36608/24] - Housing Provision
399. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average construction costs for social housing incurred by local authorities, per house, in tabular form. [36609/24] - Local Government Reform
400. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider revising local election regulations in relation to the ability of an individual being able to be a... - Waterways Issues
402. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on plans to publish the list of legal authorised developments along the Waterways Ireland system by a... - Rights of Way
405. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to ensure that local authorities will continue to be obliged to preserve public rights of way in their development... - Housing Policy
406. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated cost of raising the current social housing income eligibility thresholds by €10,000 per year nationwide,... - Housing Schemes
407. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the latest figures on the number of households on the HAP and RAS schemes and rent allowance respectively; the cost of each,... - Rental Sector
408. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of households currently privately renting their principal residence; the number of those households that are within... - Constitutional Amendments
410. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he intends to hold a referendum on the public ownership and management of water and the right to housing. [36788/24] - Fire Service
411. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the percentage of the funding currently remaining under the fire services 2021-2025 capital programme. [36822/24] - National Parks
412. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the capital works scheduled to be carried out in national parks under the remit of his Department between now and the end of... - Derelict Sites
413. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated yield from an increase in derelict site levy to 33% in a full year. [36824/24] - Housing Schemes
414. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total expenditure by his Department on the first-home scheme in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and the total number of... - Wildlife Protection
417. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to develop a new red grouse species action plan, noting the last plan was developed in 2013 and is now out of date;... - Departmental Reviews
418. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current number of live studies, reviews and research undertaken or commissioned by his Department; and the date by which... - Coastal Protection
419. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department is implementing the recommendations of the report of the Inter-Departmental Group on National Coastal Change... - Defective Building Materials
420. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will ensure the 10% increase in the cap for the enhanced defective concrete block grant scheme is available to all... - Community Development Projects
422. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 95 of 13 June 2024, for an update on the publication date for a guide to the provision... - Housing Schemes
423. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for a report on the cost-rental tenant-in-situ and the tenant-in-situ programmes, broken down by local authority; and if he... - Fire Safety
426. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the action being taken to ensure that owner management companies are fulfilling their duty with regard to their responsibility... - Housing Policy
427. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason the housing assistance payments are in respect of three kids and more; the reason it does not increase for any... - Rental Sector
428. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of rental inspections completed by local authorities, by county, in 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form....
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