Written answers

Thursday, 19 February 2026

Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government

 
  • Environmental Policy
    388. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department is aware of the “Global Biodiversity Loss, Ecosystem Collapse and National Security: A National...
  • Departmental Schemes
    390. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the projects that local authorities have applied for to-date under the Local Biodiversity Action Fund 2026; the breakdown in...
  • Special Areas of Conservation
    391. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps being taken by his Department to address ‘unfavourable’ conservation status of 90% of Ireland’s...
  • Turbary Rights
    392. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the cessation of turf cutting compensation schemes as the payment period concludes for many applicants; if a...
  • Flood Risk Management
    393. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the National Flood Forecasting and Warning Service; the amount expended on the development of the service to...
  • Rental Sector
    394. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the date his Department decided to conclude centralised monitoring of the ‘room for a student – local authority...
  • Defective Building Materials
    397. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will request an update from the DCB Appeals Panel to provide the number of appeals made to 31 January 2026; the numbers...
  • Water Services
    398. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the grant supports to sink wells are eligible for houses that have been built prior to 2007, and have been connected to...
  • Legislative Measures
    399. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will outline each section of enacted legislation, where the responsibility lies in the Minister to commence that...
  • Defective Building Materials
    400. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if can provide an update on the inclusion of homes in Skerries and Rush in the defective blocks scheme; the timeline for the...
  • Local Authorities
    401. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of funding for Galway County Council in 2025, and each local authority in the State for comparison, in tabular...
  • Rental Sector
    402. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether his Department maintains an internal monitoring framework, dashboard or structured reporting mechanism which tracks...
  • Departmental Reviews
    403. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether reviews were undertaken at the end of phase one and phase two of the National Landscape Strategy 2015–2025; if...
  • Departmental Strategies
    404. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to the release of the Coastal Change Management Strategy Report in 2023, to provide an update on the development of...
  • Housing Policy
    405. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether a formal policy decision was taken in 2025 to reduce or limit the use of tenant-in-situ acquisitions under the...
  • Housing Schemes
    407. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of tenant-in-situ acquisitions completed nationally in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025; the number approved but not...
  • Housing Policy
    408. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether the Department has undertaken any assessment of the impact of reduced tenant-in-situ acquisitions on entries into...
  • Housing Provision
    413. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total annual population increase in each of the years 2022 to 2025; the number of residential housing completions in each...
  • Housing Policy
    417. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether local authorities can fund attic conversations for their own housing stock from their capital funding to provide...
  • Approved Housing Bodies
    420. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to detail the annual funding allocation to Circle Housing AHB for the years 2020 to 2025, and to confirm if there is a...
  • Rental Sector
    421. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to clarify the administrative boundaries that will be used to determine towns in excess of 20,000 people for the purposes of...

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