Written answers

Thursday, 29 May 2025

Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government

 
  • Commercial Rates
    384. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will undertake a scoping exercise on the effect of commercial rates on retail businesses; if he will examine whether a...
  • Water Quality
    385. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason he is proposing to designate nearly 10% of our waterbodies as ‘heavily modified water bodies’ without...
  • Wildlife Conservation
    386. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the review of The Wildlife Act 1976; the proposed timeline for publication of the review; and if he will make...
  • Housing Provision
    387. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether his Department has assessed a location (details supplied) as a potential location for new housing; and if he will make...
  • Defective Building Materials
    388. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware that homeowners who cannot complete the remediation of their homes under the enhanced defective blocks grant...
  • Housing Provision
    389. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is considering amending the turnkey purchase of housing developments for social housing to allow for stage payments to...
  • Community Development Projects
    390. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether there is scope for a family centre in Clondalkin to apply for funding through the Urban Regeneration and Development...
  • Social Welfare Benefits
    391. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether the policy whereby someone cannot have their homeless HAP increased to the new increased level while they stay in...
  • Electoral Process
    392. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has concerns in relation to other countries seeking to influence Irish elections and referenda through misinformation...
  • National Parks
    393. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider the development of a national park at the Blackstairs Mountains in south Leinster; and if he will make a...
  • Departmental Legal Cases
    394. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the costs in each of the years 2020 to 2024 and to date in 2025 to his Department and to agencies under his remit, including...
  • Waste Management
    395. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of waste enforcement officers employed in each local authority throughout the country, in tabular form; and if he...
  • Defective Building Materials
    396. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason Government bodies have been to Wexford and tested a number of properties for defective concrete, over a year ago,...
  • Housing Policy
    397. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider reviewing Government’s acquisition cost guidelines for Dublin; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Defective Building Materials
    399. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is considering changes to standards to include second homes and holiday homes in the defective blocks scheme; and if he...
  • Commercial Rates
    401. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the breakdown of the value of commercial rates collected by each local authority for the years 2022, 2023 and 2024, in tabular...
  • Planning Issues
    402. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider the issues raised by a person (details supplied) and provide a response in relation to development levy...
  • National Planning Framework
    403. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will review the definition of areas under urban influence as defined under the previous national planning framework and...

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