Written answers

Thursday, 18 December 2025

Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government

 
  • Local Authorities
    495. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the new criteria for executive engineers could be amended (details supplied). [73280/25]
  • Planning Issues
    496. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the plans in place to improve the pre-application engagement process for renewable energy projects under the implementation of...
  • Building Regulations
    499. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a builder can be compelled to carry out remedial works on the roof of a home at no cost to the homeowner where breaches of...
  • Rental Sector
    500. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government under the new tenancy legislation from March 2026, where a rental property is split into two tenancies, if one tenant decides...
  • House Prices
    501. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the guidance available to a person (details supplied) attempting to buy a modest home, who works full time and holds...
  • Housing Schemes
    502. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of tenant in situ applications, for social housing and cost-rental properties, completed, by local authority, for...
  • Planning Issues
    503. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a list of all national planning policy statements currently being prepared by his Department, in tabular form....
  • Housing Provision
    504. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the key measures taken to expand social housing provision during 2025; his priorities for 2026; and if he will make a...
  • Homeless Accommodation
    506. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the key measures taken to tackle homelessness during 2025; his priorities for 2026; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Vacant Properties
    507. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the key measures taken to tackle vacancy and dereliction during 2025; his priorities for 2026; and if he will make a statement...
  • Housing Provision
    508. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the key measures taken to expand cost rental during 2025; his priorities for 2026; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Water Services
    511. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the key measures taken to enhance water services during 2025; his priorities for 2026; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Housing Policy
    512. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the key measures taken to support rightsizing during 2025; his priorities for 2026; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Housing Provision
    513. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the key measures taken to boost overall housing supply during 2025; his priorities for 2026; and if he will make a statement...
  • Departmental Functions
    514. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for a report on the work of the Housing Activation Office during 2025; his priorities for 2026; and if he will make a...
  • Domestic Violence
    515. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the date on which stage one of an application was approved by his Department; the next steps; an estimated completion date for...
  • House Prices
    516. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason the real estate-property development industry is not required to demonstrate the price of new properties,...
  • Housing Provision
    517. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether his Department currently collects or holds construction and delivery cost data at individual housing unit level for...
  • Rental Sector
    523. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on a general scenario between a landlord and a tenant (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Waterways Issues
    524. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total capital expenditure on Inland Waterways in 2025; the funding provided for 2026; the projects that will be progressed...
  • Housing Provision
    525. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline the criteria guidelines, rules and regulations in relation to requirements by Local Authorities to purchase houses...
  • Vacant Properties
    526. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of local authority vacant homes (voids) in County Waterford; the average re-let time; and the amount spent bringing...
  • Housing Provision
    527. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social homes built, acquired or leased by Waterford City and County Council in 2023, 2024 and 2025, broken down...
  • Emergency Accommodation
    528. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of households on the social housing waiting list and the number in emergency accommodation in County Waterford at...
  • Housing Schemes
    529. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he plans to initiate a review of cost-rental income thresholds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [73765/25]
  • Land Development Agency
    531. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider granting the Land Development Agency greater compulsory purchase order powers, similar to those possessed...
  • Housing Provision
    533. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 40 of 25 November 2025, when he anticipates a conclusion or further update between...
  • Rental Sector
    534. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures he is taking to increase the number of properties to rent in Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Housing Schemes
    535. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he can detail, in relation to the affordable housing fund, cost rental equity loan scheme and secure tenancy affordable...

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