Written answers

Thursday, 9 October 2025

Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government

 
  • Homeless Persons Supports
    212. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of people currently registered as homeless in County Kildare; the number of children currently registered as...
  • Housing Policy
    214. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the plans within his Department to address the current restriction on one-off planning for rural housing across the country;...
  • Postal Voting
    217. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of a case (details supplied); and if he will instruct his Department to make postal voting more accessible,...
  • Departmental Contracts
    218. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of external consultancy contracts entered into by his Department in the past five years, including the original...
  • Departmental Staff
    219. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide the number of ecologists, ornithologists, hydrologists, hydrogeologists and environmental scientists,...
  • Departmental Consultations
    222. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of occasions on which the services of a specialist consultant in ecology, ornithology, hydrology, hydrogeology, or...
  • Departmental Data
    223. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide the number of ecologists, ornithologists, hydrologists, hydrogeologists and environmental scientists,...
  • Departmental Equipment
    226. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to confirm if any staff devices (laptops, phones, USBs) containing departmental information or sensitive data were reported...
  • Departmental Expenditure
    227. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to detail the instances in which software or IT systems procured by his Department or agencies were later deemed unfit for...
  • Rental Sector
    228. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps her Department is taking to ensure that the forthcoming amendments to the Residential Tenancies Act 2004, due to...
  • Wind Energy Guidelines
    234. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the guidance provided to planning authorities and An Coimisiún Pleanála to ensure wind turbine noise is properly...
  • Grant Payments
    235. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the circumstances regarding grant aid for a property (details supplied); if the person is entitled to a vacant...
  • Departmental Policies
    236. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the use of online bidding platforms and countdown clocks in house sales; his views on whether they are a positive...
  • Planning Issues
    237. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider an exemption from planning permission for the installation of bike sheds in front gardens; and if he will...
  • Departmental Correspondence
    239. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address the points raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....
  • Wind Energy Guidelines
    240. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 465 of 25 March 2025, if he is aware of the EPA’s Pro-Health SEA research (ref....

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