Written answers
Tuesday, 24 June 2025
Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
- Broadband Infrastructure
463. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the concerns of residents in an area (details supplied) regarding the ongoing issue... - Public Procurement Contracts
464. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department has a designated head of procurement; if each agency or public body under his Department’s... - Sports Funding
467. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will inform a club (details supplied) formally of the outcome of its appeal; if successful, the way in which the... - Sports Organisations
469. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the position regarding the powers that Sport Ireland has to compel sport's governing bodies to adhere to certain... - Olympic Council of Ireland
470. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the merits of producing a report into sporting bodies regarding the dedicated support they provide for... - Olympic Games
471. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to ensure that athletes that have competed in previous Olympic and Paralympic games, and require further... - Departmental Reports
472. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment for a full list of all documents, reports, strategies, and resources that have been “unpublished” by his... - Postal Services
473. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the actions he intends to take to ensure the viability of the post office network, especially post offices operating in... - Sports Facilities
474. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when his Department expects construction of a new state of the art national velodrome and badminton centre to commence.... - Departmental Meetings
475. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he met with a person (details supplied) during his recent visit to the US. [33961/25] - Departmental Projects
476. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the infrastructure projects being built or commissioned by his Department that are currently late in their delivery;... - Departmental Data
477. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to list every community-based festival and summer school that has approached him or his Department directly to solicit... - Sports Funding
478. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment how organisations in Ireland south can access the Creative Europe culture strand funding; and if he will make a... - Departmental Data
479. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way in which he will support local and regional journalism in counties such as Laois, where local newspapers, media... - Housing Schemes
481. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the housing aid for older people grant, specifically whether boiler replacements remain eligible under... - Rental Sector
482. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way in which the market rate will be determined under the proposed rental regulation changes; if there will be a... - Departmental Meetings
483. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he is next scheduled to meet the CEO of Gas Networks Ireland. [33521/25] - Defective Building Materials
484. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware that there are many families who have availed of the remediation available under the defective block grant... - Urban Development
485. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will outline and publish in detail the selection criteria to be followed by local authorities in identifying urban... - Water Services
486. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 752 of 10 June 2025, if homeowners were prepared to pay the €15,000 contribution... - Public Procurement Contracts
487. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has a designated head of procurement; if each agency or public body under his Department’s remit also... - Housing Schemes
490. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures he is taking to transpose the energy performance of buildings directive into national law; the measures he is... - Departmental Data
492. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of builders that have signed up to the statutory register under the Regulation of Providers of Building Works and... - Local Authorities
495. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware that Louth County Council has had to limit access to housing adaptation grants and related schemes; if there... - Rental Sector
496. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether people engaged in short-term lettings, who will soon be incorporated into rent pressure zones, will have to apply for... - Departmental Data
497. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if will address an issue (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33791/25] - Departmental Reports
498. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for a full list of all documents, reports, strategies, and resources that have been “unpublished” by his... - Regeneration Projects
499. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if Oliver Bond flats will be subject to the same rationalisation of the refusal to fund the regeneration of Pearse House; and... - Defective Building Materials
502. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason for the ongoing delay in processing appeals under the enhanced defective concrete block scheme; the current status... - Water Services
503. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he can give any direction to Uisce Éireann in relation to capital and/or operational matters. [33839/25] - Defective Building Materials
504. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason for the ongoing delay in providing clarification to the residents of Elm Park, Buncrana under the enhanced... - Departmental Data
505. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33850/25] - Water Services
506. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has noted the recent publication of the European Commission’s water resilience strategy and, in particular, the... - Traveller Accommodation
508. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of traveller-specific accommodation funding returned to his Department, per county, in tabular form, for the years... - Housing Provision
509. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the proposed works at Blackberry Lanes, Athlone, County Westmeath. [33873/25] - Defective Building Materials
510. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the options open to apartment owners experiencing the effects of pyrite but whose neighbours, also affected by the same... - Housing Provision
519. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the housing schemes, including social, affordable, cost rental or other supports, which are currently available in the Ballina... - Planning Issues
525. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there are plans to include tenants of houses acquired by local authorities under the part V of the Planning and Development... - Departmental Policies
526. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether a policy change will be considered to provide the Revenue Commissioners with the power to collect levies under the... - Defective Building Materials
527. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason homeowners that have appealed the remediation options provided to them under the defective concrete blocks grant... - Departmental Data
528. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if an organisation (details supplied) is a solvent company. [34060/25] - Legislative Process
529. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for clarification on the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2025 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on... - Departmental Projects
530. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the infrastructure projects being built or commissioned by his Department that are currently late in their delivery; and the... - Fire Stations
532. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will commit to the recommended expedited delivery of a new fire station in Ballincollig; if his Department will carry... - Rural Schemes
533. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the publication of the rural housing guidelines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34158/25] - Housing Provision
534. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of apartments completed in the four Dublin local authority areas per year from 2018 to 2024; and if he will make a... - Land Development Agency
538. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide details on the expected or set prices for each category of new home being developed by the Land Development... - Local Authorities
540. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of times that dwellings have been deemed to be inactive and notified to his Department by a local authority in the... - Office of Public Works
541. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the required consent submission by the Office of Public Works to his Department, in relation to progressing the... - Land Development Agency
542. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of affordable purchase and cost-rental homes, respectively, that will be delivered through Land Development Agency... - Rental Sector
543. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of private rented accommodation inspections carried out by all local authorities in 2024; the number of inspections... - Housing Schemes
544. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total value of grant payments issued by local authorities to persons who have completed works using the vacant property... - Departmental Data
545. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an indicative timeline on when responsibility for the Multi-Unit Development Act 2011 will be transferred from the... - Departmental Funding
546. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if further consideration has been given to enacting regulations on service charges and sinking funds under the Multi-Unit... - Departmental Staff
547. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of WTE-qualified historians employed by his Department in the years of 2023, 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular... - Departmental Reviews
548. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the publication of the review into the response of the State and State agencies into the impact of storm... - Housing Schemes
549. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there are plans to raise the cap on the first home scheme and the help to buy scheme, specifically for Dublin, as new... - Defective Building Materials
550. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of defective concrete block appeals he has received from Donegal; the number processed to date; the number of... - Departmental Funding
551. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding and department supports are available under ‘Measure A8- Waste Water Collection and Treatment Needs for... - Housing Schemes
552. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he would consider extending housing adaptation grant schemes to include support for the purchase of generators for homes... - Housing Provision
553. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason a newly built social housing estate (details supplied) has been vacant for seven months post-completion; and if he... - Departmental Data
554. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount that has to date been spent on the public private partnership bundle 3; and if he will make a statement on the... - Departmental Funding
556. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if provision has been made to continue the Economic and Social Intervention Fund in Limerick in 2026 and beyond, given that it...
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