Written answers

Thursday, 4 December 2025

Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government

 
  • Commercial Rates
    309. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider a waiver on commercial rates, or a portion of commercial rates or taxes, for the owners of commercial...
  • National Parks and Wildlife Service
    310. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department is aware of correspondence received by the National Parks and Wildlife Service from Mid and East Antrim...
  • Local Authorities
    311. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether transport projects can lawfully proceed in an area where the planning authority has been found by the High Court to be...
  • Public Sector Staff
    313. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the commitments given to water services workers in June 2023, allowing them to remain in direct local authority employment...
  • Local Authorities
    316. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to publish a comparative league table of local authorities’ performance with regard to housing delivery; and...
  • Tourism Policy
    318. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the discretion local authorities will have to develop policies under the Short Term Letting and Tourism Bill 2025; when local...
  • Homeless Persons Supports
    319. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if an application has been received for a homeless day centre in Cork city. [68625/25]
  • Water Supply
    320. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will review the eligibility criteria under the Multi-Annual Rural Water Programme (MARWP) 2024–2026 to allow...
  • National Monuments
    328. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to give serious consideration to acquiring the Balcarrick Martello Tower, Donabate which is a recorded National Monument and...
  • Defective Building Materials
    329. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the details of the recently extended pyrite remediation scheme will be published; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Local Authorities
    331. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of the grades of oifigigh forbartha Gaeilge in each of the local authorities, in tabular form; if he will consider...
  • Environmental Impact Assessments
    332. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of major infrastructure projects that experienced delays arising from Environmental Impact Assessment or...
  • Housing Provision
    333. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has prepared a full delivery schedule to meet the stated target of 12,000 new social homes per year; and if...
  • Local Authorities
    336. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current national level of local authority housing units classified as non-lettable for more than 12 months; and the...
  • Housing Provision
    338. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department maintains real-time tracking of housing delivery bottlenecks across local authorities; and if he will...
  • Construction Industry
    339. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the expected date for the publication of the first productivity indicators for residential construction, including those...
  • Planning Issues
    340. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the annual average and median decision timelines for SHD and LRD applications in each of the past five years, by local...
  • Housing Provision
    341. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the planning timeline assumptions used to underpin the delivery pathway for the target of 300,000 homes under Delivering...
  • Building Energy Rating
    344. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of local authority homes in Cork city and Cork county that have been upgraded to BER C in 2025. [68826/25]
  • Departmental Data
    346. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps his Department has taken since 2022 to secure more granular productivity data to support national housing targets....
  • Wastewater Treatment
    349. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to urgently commence work on the proposed sewerage scheme for Beaufort Village, County Kerry (details supplied); and if he...
  • Housing Provision
    350. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to detail the primary operational, staffing, procurement, and supply-chain constraints reported by local authorities in...
  • Special Areas of Conservation
    351. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when Lough Corrib became a candidate special area of conservation, considering that there are conflicting dates on the public...
  • Housing Schemes
    354. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the criteria considered when the threshold for entry to the Croí Cónaithe scheme was set at 20-units; if a viability...

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