Written answers
Tuesday, 29 April 2025
Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
- Housing Provision
1140. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the planned social and affordable housing developments throughout Dublin Bay north; and if he... - Wind Energy Generation
1141. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when overdue updated guidelines on wind farm regulations will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter.... - Housing Provision
1142. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the immediate measures being implemented to address the critical shortage of rental properties available under the housing... - Defective Building Materials
1146. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will release the necessary funding to local authorities in Donegal and other affected counties to remediate their... - Housing Provision
1148. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the forms of proof of ownership, apart from the deeds of a house, that are acceptable for accessing the derelict home grant... - Housing Policy
1149. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department will consider continuing to advance new methods of construction, in particular modular home builds, as a... - Energy Infrastructure
1150. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware that the local authority in Donegal has informed councillors that there will only be energy efficiency grants... - Departmental Functions
1151. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline the duties he intends to delegate to the Strategic Housing Activation Office within his Department; and if he will... - Departmental Schemes
1152. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if new TIS guidelines allow for older people and people with disabilities to be considered under the scheme even in cases... - Development Contributions
1154. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider extending the temporary waiver in respect of local authority development contributions, given that it... - Pension Provisions
1156. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has engaged with representatives of full-time fire brigades since January 2024 on the issues with the fast... - Turf Cutting
1157. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position in relation to a person (details supplied) who formerly cut turf in a bog; if new arrangements will be put in... - Vacant Properties
1158. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to consider setting up a roving workforce to assist local authorities bring vacant housing stock back into use; if he will... - Departmental Schemes
1164. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the amount allocated and the number of homes to be returned under the voids return scheme in... - Departmental Programmes
1165. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homes subjected to a compulsory purchase order by each local authority in 2024; the number on each derelict... - Housing Schemes
1166. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of cost rental homes to be delivered in Cork in 2025. [18812/25] - Information and Communications Technology
1168. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to introduce a new computer aided call taking and dispatch system called NMAC; the consultation that took place on... - Fire Service
1169. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he intends to introduce a national standardised criteria to ensure all fire service authorities can deliver uniform... - Departmental Data
1170. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if it is factual that the keeping communities safe document has not been ratified by the relevant trade unions at the time of... - Rural Schemes
1171. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he expects to publish the new rural housing guidelines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18859/25] - Housing Provision
1172. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if inspections were conducted prior to the acquisition by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council of 12 homes at Holly... - Hare Coursing
1173. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for a breakdown of the costs and work hours over the past five years associated with National Parks and Wildlife Service... - Animal Welfare
1174. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware that unlawful animal traps are being sold by, and dispatched from, a company (details supplied); and if he... - Hare Coursing
1175. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the presence of pregnant hares at the Balbriggan and Borrisoleigh coursing meetings in November and December 2024... - Housing Schemes
1177. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason South Dublin County Council or an AHB purchased an entire apartment development in Rathfarnham for social housing... - Ministerial Responsibilities
1178. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has delegated responsibilities to his Ministers of State; and if so, the responsibilities he has delegated to each... - Departmental Data
1179. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a list of all land that had its residential zoning by way of ministerial order in each of the years since 2020, by... - Housing Schemes
1180. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total Exchequer expenditure on social housing acquisitions in 2024, by local authority area, acquisition schemes, that... - Departmental Correspondence
1181. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a dated list of all correspondence between the European Commission and his Department on the issue of regulating... - Rental Sector
1182. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to confirm that he has received the Housing Agency's review of rent pressure zones, and to publish the report. [18981/25] - Departmental Data
1183. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to clarify the commencement schedule for each of the chapters and sections of Part 9 of the Planning and Development Act... - Wastewater Treatment
1184. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to a currently unserviced wastewater treatment plant in Rooskagh Valley, Shanagarry, County... - Departmental Funding
1185. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans for the restoration and preservation of a heritage site (details supplied); if funding or support will be allocated... - Architectural Heritage
1186. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding any initiatives proposed by his Department that seeks to protect the architectural heritage of... - Departmental Expenditure
1187. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the purchase of lands at the Glen of the Downs in County Wicklow; and if he will make a... - Defective Building Materials
1188. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the plans in place to introduce a pyrite scheme for local authority-owned homes; and if he will make a statement on the... - Strategic Infrastructure
1189. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government , further to Parliamentary Question No. 646 of 8 April, the reason the current outstanding strategic housing development... - Housing Schemes
1190. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the Government's policy on rightsizing schemes; the number of schemes that have been made available in the years 2022-2025... - Climate Action Plan
1191. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the public and private financial resources required and available to support his Department’s plans to... - Agriculture Schemes
1192. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the farm succession scheme promoted by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine;... - Animal Slaughtering
1193. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide details of the number of deer that have been culled for each year between 2015 and 2025 for each county, and... - Departmental Funding
1195. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of all services, grants, loans and payments available to individuals or households funded by his Department and... - Local Area Plans
1196. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government , further to Parliamentary Question No. 495 of 1 April 2025, when Meath County Council will have the requisite resources and... - Special Areas of Conservation
1197. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government , further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 496 and 497 of 1 April, if he plans to publish an SAC management plan for the... - Departmental Data
1198. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total amount of residentially zoned land in each local authority development plan, including a range of the number of... - Housing Provision
1200. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the methodology and data sources used by his officials for housing needs assessment of an average of 50,000 new homes a year... - Departmental Programmes
1201. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way in which he plans to safeguard crucial programmes like Housing First while several of such organisations are in... - Departmental Schemes
1202. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason a person (details supplied) does not qualify for a septic tank grant; the reason Meath is omitted from all septic... - Local Authorities
1203. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the breakdown of the total number of local authority home loan applications, by local authority; and the number of successful... - Departmental Data
1204. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the breakdown of the total number of units retrofitted, by local authority area for each of the past five years. [19248/25] - Road Projects
1206. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the progress of the regeneration of the Noonan's Road and surrounding streets regeneration. [19250/25] - Housing Schemes
1207. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the number of affordable houses, cost rental and cost purchase, homes planned for Cork City and County Council... - Water Services
1208. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government with regard to Uisce Éireann refusing to take in charge housing developments with developer-provided water service... - Departmental Inquiries
1209. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his response to an issue (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19279/25] - Departmental Schemes
1210. 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. [19309/25] - Water Services
1211. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the actions his Department is taking to ensure that water and wastewater infrastructure can support the delivery of housing,... - Derelict Sites
1212. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department will engage with Dublin City Council regarding the future use of the derelict site adjacent to the trinity... - Ministerial Responsibilities
1213. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline his responsibilities as they relate to biodiversity and nature restoration; to report on where this is detailed in... - Housing Provision
1214. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 178 of 2 April 2025, the amount of funding released in the first quarter of 2023, 2024... - Approved Housing Bodies
1215. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 177 of 2 April 2025, the number of approved housing bodies (AHBs) whose memorandum and... - Departmental Contracts
1216. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of contracts currently held by his Department with a company (details supplied); the details of contracts... - Emergency Accommodation
1217. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps his Department is taking to ensure that LGBTQ+ individuals are protected in emergency accommodation settings; if... - Departmental Data
1218. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of planning applications for rural one-off dwellings submitted in 2024, 2023, and 2022 in counties Louth,... - Departmental Schemes
1222. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide the STAR allocations to each organisation that has been awarded equity payments under this scheme with a breakdown... - Data Centres
1223. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider advocating for a ban on data centre construction in areas of high housing need (details supplied); and if... - Departmental Funding
1224. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide the amount of funding allocated local authorities to support the Social Housing Secondhand Acquisitions... - Departmental Regulations
1262. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the ban on the granting of planning permission to build new houses outside 60km per hour speed limits on national primary... - Departmental Funding
1264. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the plans that are in place to provide additional resources to An Bórd Pleanála to speed up the whole planning... - Departmental Regulations
1265. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if legislation is in place for a Government housing body to take over unfinished ghost estates after a certain period and to... - Departmental Schemes
1266. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of successful tenant in-situ schemes acquisitions completed by Wicklow County Council since its inception in April... - Departmental Staff
1276. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown, by Department or office, of the percentage of employees who have disclosed a disability for... - Departmental Schemes
1277. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applications submitted for a scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20029/25] - Housing Schemes
1282. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he can provide details of the manner in which once-off payments and once off commissions or bonuses are treated in the... - Departmental Funding
1286. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding provided to Cork City Council under the CAS in 2024. [20099/25] - Departmental Data
1288. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a list of all briefing documents provided to him by his Department officials since taking office; and the dates on... - Departmental Funding
1289. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applications received by his Department from Dublin City Council to funding and approval for inner city flat... - Departmental Expenditure
1290. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the breakdown of what the €50 million allocated for regeneration and refurbishment under REV sub head A12 was spent on... - Departmental Programmes
1292. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the date the tenant-in-situ programme will resume as many applications are left pending without a decision; and if he will... - Departmental Schemes
1293. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether persons who commenced their rebuild prior to the introduction of the enhanced defective concrete blocks grant scheme... - Fire Safety
1294. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the Keeping Community Safe (Framework for Fire Safety in Ireland) has been reviewed in the past two years; the person or... - Departmental Funding
1295. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the projects that were funded under the Urban Regeneration and Development Fund within County Longford in 2023, 2024 and... - Departmental Schemes
1296. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the inclusion of grade 1 homes in the pyrite scheme, as committed to in the Programme for Government. [20160/25] - Housing Schemes
1297. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will examine the case of a family (details supplied) who are living in overcrowded accommodation, who are being removed... - Departmental Data
1298. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the child homelessness rate in Waterford for the last week in December for the past ten years. [20185/25] - Departmental Funding
1299. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total monies paid out or committed by his Department to each local authority in respect of building social houses and... - Local Authorities
1302. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he intends to instruct local authorities to reduce the interest rates for their long standing variable interest mortgage... - Information and Communications Technology
1303. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if all IT systems used by his Department can utilise the síneadh fada; where this is not the case, to provide the list... - Departmental Inquiries
1304. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans for the restoration of the town council tier of local government; the powers he intends to give to town councils;... - EU Directives
1305. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a list of all EU directives which are awaiting transposition in his Department; the date on which transposition is... - Departmental Properties
1306. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a list of all properties his Department have rented from 2015 to date in 2025, including the length of tenancy;... - Departmental Contracts
1307. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether an external company is contracted to provide cleaning services to his Department building; and if so, the name of the... - Departmental Reports
1309. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on their efforts to further develop the Ulster Canal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20401/25] - Housing Schemes
1311. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applications received, granted, refused, or are currently being processed for the social housing tenant-in-situ... - Departmental Data
1313. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of acres of land sold, by each local authority, for counties Wicklow and Wexford to date; in tabular form; and if... - Defective Building Materials
1314. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how the guarantee will apply for homes that have been remediated with outer block solution when homes have cracking and... - Animal Welfare
1315. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reasons elephants were moved from/to Dublin Zoo in the recent years in light of the fact that transport of elephants is a... - Departmental Funding
1319. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there is central Government funding available for purchase of a site by Dublin City Council (details supplied). [20572/25] - Departmental Programmes
1320. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the State has adequate lands to deliver on the restoration ambition outlined in the Nature Restoration Law which includes... - Rental Sector
1321. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what guidelines or provisions are in place to ensure an adequate supply of cost rental properties for single people; and if... - Electoral Commission
1323. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a community can make a submission to the Electoral Commission regarding the location of their voting station; and if he... - National Planning Framework
1324. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the national planning framework revision figures will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20624/25] - Housing Schemes
1326. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline the number of successful applications for the Croi Conaithe cities scheme in 2024; the amount of funding approved... - Departmental Data
1327. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline the total number of residential development applications with An Bord Pleanála at present; the number of... - Departmental Bodies
1328. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to confirm which body is responsible for providing a full technical review of a defective concrete block grant scheme... - Departmental Schemes
1329. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of houses purchased by each of Carlow County Council and Kilkenny County Council under the tenant-in-situ scheme... - Housing Schemes
1330. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the general reviews and timelines for the first home scheme threshold; when the next review of the regional... - Departmental Schemes
1331. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason as of April 2025, none of the six appeals that were confirmed to be in progress as of early December 2024 under... - Housing Provision
1334. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures he is taking to increase housing supply in Kilkenny, including social housing and affordable housing; and if he... - Departmental Schemes
1336. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the budget allocation granted to Kilkenny County Council for the tenant-in-situ scheme for 2025; and if he will make a... - Marine Protected Areas
1338. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the marine protected areas legislation; to provide an update; and if he will make a statement on the... - Emergency Accommodation
1339. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if people leaving IPAS accommodation in Dublin who have been granted leave to remain, are in employment in Dublin and have... - State Bodies
1340. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to report on any instructions given or planned, for the appointment criteria to be considered in the upcoming appointment of... - Departmental Reports
1341. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to report on the progress of the digitisation of the planning permission’s application process. [20882/25] - National Planning Framework
1343. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to set out all changes made to the revised National Planning Framework from the draft version published in November 2024 and... - Departmental Data
1344. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average cost per unit of new build social housing delivered in 2024 by SHIP construction, SHIP turnkey, CALF... - Housing Schemes
1346. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has plans to increase the first-home scheme threshold in County Louth to reflect the rising housing prices. [21014/25] - Departmental Funding
1347. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of funding allocated for housing maintenance, by local authority, in 2024, in tabular form. [21063/25] - Harbours and Piers
1348. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding the sun shelter on the east pier of Dún Laoghaire harbour; his views on the merits of fully... - National Monuments
1351. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding the RMS Leinster Memorial in Dún Laoghaire; his views on the merits of maintaining and upgrading... - Urban Development
1352. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide the full list of projects in County Galway for which urban regeneration and development funding has been provided;... - Housing Provision
1353. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the basic units ceiling costs for the purchase of social housing provided to each local authority in 2025; and if he will... - Turf Cutting
1357. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he or his Department is aware that families are being prevented from cutting turf on Barroughter Bog, County Galway,... - Building Regulations
1360. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the proposed revisions and timeline to Building Regulations Technical Guidance Document L... - Housing Provision
1361. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number and percentage of eligible applicants for the housing development and contribution waiver that have completed... - Commercial Rates
1369. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he plans to address the discriminatory position whereby commercial premises with an on street presence must pay commercial...
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