Written answers
Tuesday, 7 October 2025
Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
- Housing Schemes
265. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on Government spending on the long-term housing scheme from the start of scheme to now; and if he will make a... - Legislative Programme
266. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a list of the legislation he intends to bring forward during the current Dáil session. [52965/25] - Housing Provision
267. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to set out the annual expenditure on LIHAF; the total number of homes in each year activated via this measure; the total... - Housing Schemes
269. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department will consider removing the two-year tenancy rule on tenant in situ applications. [53009/25] - House Prices
271. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has calculated the proportion of households by income decile that are priced out of purchasing the average... - Housing Provision
274. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of second-hand homes currently available to purchase nationally; and the way in which this compares with the... - House Prices
278. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the actions his Department is taking to address regional disparities in house price inflation, including rises of over 8% in... - Emergency Accommodation
281. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to respond to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53139/25] - Housing Policy
282. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide the data he has available on the number of households that were rendered ineligible for social housing due to an... - Housing Schemes
285. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a summary of all changes to the rental accommodation scheme in the past year, including any relevant circulars... - Defective Building Materials
286. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a homeowner who withdraws from the statutory appeals process under the enhanced defective concrete blocks scheme thereby... - Heritage Sites
290. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if jobs have been advertised to address the closure of tours for Glenveagh Castle in County Donegal on Mondays and Friday due... - Planning Issues
291. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is satisfied by the adequacy of measures in the Planning and Development Act 2024, intended to disincentivise and... - Water Services
292. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline the projects approved as part of the Uisce Éireann RC4 Capital Investment Plan 2025-2029; and if he will make... - Housing Provision
293. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline the current proposals by Cork City Council, Cork County Council and approved housing bodies for the provision of... - Compulsory Purchase Orders
294. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the targets for the CPO activation programme in 2024; and the numbers achieved by local authority, in tabular form. [53316/25] - Grant Payments
297. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the merits of creating a grant scheme to support families with adult children, that have additional needs, to... - Housing Provision
298. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government with regard to the 'Section 28 Guidelines - NPF Implementation: Housing Growth Requirements' which issued in July 2025 and... - Planning Issues
300. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a detailed outline of the strategic environmental assessment (SEA) process that can be undertaken between... - Housing Policy
301. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if consideration has been given to the question as to whether the procedures and standards imposed by his Department on local... - Approved Housing Bodies
303. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of approved housing bodies owning and-or managing fewer than 50 residential units in the years 2010, 2020 and 2024,... - Housing Policy
304. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if Afghani families who have been allowed to enter the state as part of “Community Support Programme” and who... - Water Services
305. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the engagement his Department has had with local authorities as to the concerns in new housing estates being connected for... - Defective Building Materials
307. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of transitional applications that remain to be processed by the Housing Agency arising from the transfer of... - Wildlife Conservation
309. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to clarify if bird shooting is prohibited at the Broadmeadow Estuary, Donabate in the vicinity of the Corballis Cottages; to... - Approved Housing Bodies
311. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the strategic review of the approved housing body sector. [53703/25] - Vacant Sites
313. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total value of the vacant site levy since its inception, per annum, in tabular form; if he is content it is having the... - Regeneration Projects
314. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will increase funding for Economic and Social Intervention Fund for the years 2026 and beyond, appreciating the need for... - Vacant Properties
315. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps being taken, and the support being offered, by his Department, to local authorities to hasten the turnaround of void... - Housing Provision
316. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the compilation of a central database within his Department of all social and affordable housing capital... - Homeless Accommodation
317. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the County And City Management Association review of Section 10 funding; when the review was... - Legislative Process
318. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the timeline for the Apartment and Duplex Defects Remediation Bill, including pre-legislative scrutiny by autumn 2025 and... - Fire Safety
319. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress to date on the interim remediation scheme for fire safety defects in apartments and duplexes; the number of... - Emergency Accommodation
320. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to the €50 million allocated nationally to support persons leaving emergency accommodation, of which Cork City... - Artificial Intelligence
321. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way in which artificial intelligence is being used or the way he envisions it could be used by his Department and agencies... - Wind Energy Guidelines
322. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when his Department will issue new guidelines on the way in which onshore wind farms should be developed; and if he will make... - Emergency Services
324. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the review of the State’s response to storm Éowyn. [49218/25] - Housing Provision
325. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline when the local authority acquisition figures for Q2 and Q3 2025 will be available; and if he will make a statement... - Local Authorities
329. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will simplify the calculation on the way in which local authorities retain property tax collected in their county. [39988/25]
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