Written answers
Tuesday, 25 February 2025
Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
- Hedge Cutting
485. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will respond to correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7923/25] - Defective Building Materials
486. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline, in light of his recent correspondence to an organisation (details supplied) and local authorities, including... - Housing Schemes
487. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if grant-aid is available to support families construct a granny flat or similar structure on the property of their family... - Vacant Properties
491. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount provided for the return of voids in 2023, 2024 and 2025; and the number of homes this was for respectively, by... - Vacant Sites
492. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of relevant sites for the residential zoned land tax which a levy has been applied, the amount that has been... - Departmental Funding
493. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding provided for public realm enhancement in each of the years 2019, 2024 and 2025, by local authority, in tabular... - Departmental Staff
494. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of people currently employed as graduate planner, assistant planner, executive planner and senior planner... - Departmental Consultations
495. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount spent in each of the years 2019, 2023 and 2024 by his Department on planning consultancy firms, in tabular form.... - Vacant Properties
496. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason a fully completed apartment complex is lying vacant for the past six months on the corner of Grange Road and... - Housing Schemes
497. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will take into consideration the circumstances of applicants when assessing applications for housing adaptations for... - Land Development Agency
498. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the actions taken in Louth by the Land Development Agency, and to list the State-owned sites that might be... - Housing Provision
500. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there has been a directive from the Department to local authorities to limit the number of approved housing body units that... - Local Authorities
503. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to make disability access training compulsory for technical and planning staff within each local authority. [7316/25] - Housing Provision
507. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of sites zoned for housing in each county by the local authorities, in tabular form. [7373/25] - Water Services
509. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware that Uisce Éireann has reduced its funding to local authorities for 2025; and if so, the amount of... - Departmental Consultations
510. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a schedule of all external legal consultation that he engaged in, in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025; the... - Housing Provision
511. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason solar panels were not installed on any of the new housing at a location (details supplied); if there are any plans... - Housing Policy
512. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if assistance is available to families who go above the income threshold for social housing supports due to the automatic... - Rental Sector
513. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department conducted research to inform the Government decision not to re-introduce a ban on no fault evictions; if so,... - Housing Provision
514. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of local authority homes in Galway city and county that had chimneys removed by the council during the course of... - Public Procurement Contracts
515. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide data on the final cost of public procurement tenders where his Department or agencies under the aegis of his... - Housing Schemes
517. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding that will be allocated to South Dublin County Council for the tenant-in-situ scheme in 2025; when this funding... - Planning Issues
519. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will undertake a review of the planning permission required for people who wish to build log cabins on their property;... - Housing Policy
520. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the actions that will be taken by Government and local authorities to ensure the housing completion targets of 41,000 by the... - Housing Schemes
521. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status and locations of the over 10,000 applications under the vacant homes renovation scheme; the reason there were only... - State Bodies
522. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the creation of the Building Standards Regulatory Authority; the role and powers of the authority; if it will be... - Housing Schemes
523. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of people who have taken up a cost rental equity loan, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the... - Homeless Persons Supports
524. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason for the underspend of €120 million in Exchequer spending on homelessness in 2024 after the supplementary... - Departmental Functions
525. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the work and remit of the central housing supply unit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7648/25] - Housing Policy
526. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress made by the local authority stock management policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7649/25] - Housing Schemes
527. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason most of the projects approved under the local infrastructure housing activation fund have not been delivered; and... - Housing Policy
530. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address the concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied); if he plans to support first-time buyers of... - Housing Provision
531. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the social and affordable delivery streams that will receive the €450 million capital allocation approved by Cabinet on... - Housing Policy
534. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the proposed allocations schemes for cost rental housing including an update on whether any regulations have... - Departmental Reviews
535. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for a list of all submissions received by his Department during the review of Part B of the Building Control Regulations and... - Housing Policy
536. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government in relation to people with a disability who receive the HAP service, the rationale for setting the allowance at 20% below the... - Immigration Policy
537. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to his reply to Parliamentary Question No. 450 of 18 February 2025, to elaborate on the range of plausible scenarios... - Ministerial Responsibilities
538. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for a digital copy of the Ministerial briefing document provided by his Department on taking office, along with copies of... - Housing Provision
539. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of the identified defects at the Oscar Traynor Road affordable housing project; and the actions his Department is... - Housing Policy
540. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his proposals to tackle vacancy and dereliction; the measures put in place to tackle these issues since 2020; and if he will... - Rental Sector
541. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his proposals to help renters; the measures put in place in this regard since 2020; and if he will make a statement on the... - Housing Provision
542. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his proposals to increase social housing stock; the measures put in place in this regard since 2020; and if he will make a... - Mining Industry
544. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the Northern Ireland Department for Infrastructure shared the two water discharge consent applications and the two water... - Heritage Projects
545. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on an application by Cork City Council for the restoration of the Shandon clock. [7898/25] - Waterways Ireland
546. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of the major encroachments dealt with and regularised to date by Waterways Ireland (details supplied). [7912/25] - Housing Schemes
551. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on an application by persons (details supplied) for a local authority home loan with Cork County Council; the... - Departmental Policies
552. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding a statutory register for architectural... - Local Authorities
553. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will extend the temporary waiver on development contributions payable to local authorities for those building homes in... - National Parks and Wildlife Service
556. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when a National Parks and Wildlife Service farm plan scheme annual payment for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal... - Departmental Bodies
558. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to set out the total budget and staffing of the Residential Tenancies Board in each of the years from 2015 to 2024, in tabular... - Housing Provision
560. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social homes built and acquired in each of the past ten years, in tabular form. [8073/25] - Vacant Sites
569. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of vacant sites that are identified as per county by each local authority, in tabular form; and if he will make a... - Land Development Agency
571. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total amount of spending by the Land Development Agency in the years 2023 and 2024, including a breakdown of that spending...
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