Written answers

Tuesday, 30 September 2025

Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government

 
  • Defective Building Materials
    532. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the apartment and duplex defects remediation scheme will be in place and operational; and if he will make a statement on...
  • Invasive Species Policy
    534. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government in view of the risk of rapid spread of invasive asian hornets with multiple confirmed sightings in Cork the contingency and...
  • Energy Policy
    535. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the transposition of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Planning Issues
    536. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on proposals to review planning laws in relation to permitting the installation of cabin-type...
  • Fire Service
    537. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when his Department will announce a new Fire Service Capital Programme for the period 2026 to 2030; and if he will make a...
  • Housing Schemes
    538. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if further funding will be available for local authorities to help with the backlog for housing adaptation grants for older...
  • Housing Provision
    540. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures being taken to address delays in local authority housing transfers, particularly in Cork city and county, and the...
  • Wastewater Treatment
    542. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will review the eligibility areas of grant aid schemes administered by a local authority to upgrade, repair or replace...
  • Environmental Investigations
    543. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if an independent ecological damage assessment will be undertaken in respect of the River Allow, in view of its designation...
  • Architects Register
    545. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 651 of 17 September 2025, if he is satisfied with the adequacy of the current...
  • Rental Sector
    546. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a circular will be issued to outline the changes to tenancy laws that are coming into force in March 2026; and if he will...
  • Defective Building Materials
    547. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on legislation to allow for retrospective payments under the defective concrete blocks scheme; and if he will...
  • National Development Plan
    549. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to the publication of the National Development Plan Review, when the towns and cities infrastructure investment fund...
  • Regeneration Projects
    550. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider conducting an audit to date of a public project's (details supplied) financial, physical, social, and...
  • Electoral Process
    552. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the process by which his Department determines the polling day for elections; if maximising turnout rates are considered in...
  • Wind Energy Guidelines
    553. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to advise when updated wind energy guidelines will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51317/25]
  • Local Authorities
    554. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department plans to examine the current boundaries as they pertain to the administrative areas of existing local...
  • Departmental Expenditure
    556. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount expended on cloud storage solutions in the past five years and to date in 2025; and if he will provide the data...
  • Housing Provision
    558. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of two funding streams announced for the tenant-in-situ scheme, an additional €50m announced through press...
  • Heritage Projects
    560. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline any grants available to a person wishing to convert an old building into an interpretive museum, and if there are...
  • Defective Building Materials
    561. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of water ingress due to defects at an apartment complex (details supplied). [51518/25]
  • Housing Provision
    563. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of CALF funding approvals granted to date in 2025, by local authority, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
  • Defective Building Materials
    561. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of water ingress due to defects at an apartment complex (details supplied). [51518/25]
  • Housing Provision
    563. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of CALF funding approvals granted to date in 2025, by local authority, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
  • Wastewater Treatment
    567. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if funding can be secured to repair a sewerage system (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51620/25]
  • Planning Issues
    568. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if exemptions exist for local authority planning development fees; if medically adapted extensions to properties are included...
  • Environmental Policy
    569. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 264 of 18 September 2025, to provide a timeframe for the completion of the prior risk...
  • Rental Sector
    570. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the Housing for All commitment to introduce a minimum BER for private rental accommodation; the timeframe for...
  • Housing Schemes
    571. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the up-to-date position with a housing project in County Kildare (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Rural Recreation Policy
    573. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when an infrastructural project (details supplied) will open in Kildare south; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Housing Provision
    574. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of houses purchased and in the process of completing purchase under the tenant-in-situ scheme, by local authority,...
  • Seanad Elections
    575. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on preparations for the university panel poll in the next Seanad elections. [51793/25]
  • Housing Provision
    576. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social homes completed by each approved housing body in the State, and the additional social homes provided...
  • Mayoral Election
    579. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the Government will enact the remaining provisions of the Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) and Miscellaneous...
  • Housing Provision
    580. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of new social housing units completed in Cork City in each of the past three years, with a breakdown by municipal...
  • Local Authorities
    583. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of vacant local authority dwellings in Cork city as of the latest date available; the average turnaround time for...
  • Housing Provision
    584. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the level of funding allocated to Cork city Council for housing delivery in 2023 and 2024; and the projected allocation for...
  • Planning Issues
    586. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the publication of the rural housing guidelines; when publication can be expected; and if he will make...
  • Local Authorities
    587. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his Department's interpretation of barring orders and exclusion orders in the context of local authority tenancies, and the...
  • Vacant Properties
    594. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if consideration will be given to introducing phased payments of the grant following on from the review of vacant property...
  • Development Contributions
    595. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on a scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52143/25]

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