Written answers

Tuesday, 30 April 2024

Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government

 
  • Wind Energy Guidelines
    384. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he expects to update and modernise wind turbine setback guidelines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19295/24]
  • Postal Voting
    385. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if those seeking to avail of a postal vote due to illness must pay for a certificate stating they are not fit to vote in...
  • Local Authorities
    386. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there is a road safety officer in each of the 31 local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18774/24]
  • Housing Policy
    388. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if carer's allowance can be considered a form of income in the purchase of a council house for a person (details supplied)....
  • Housing Provision
    389. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current number of social homes in Cork south west; and the number of vacant social homes in Cork south west.; and if he...
  • Housing Schemes
    391. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applications received by each local authority area under the croí cónaithe town fund scheme, standard...
  • Broadband Infrastructure
    392. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of copper communication lines within his Department that are currently in active operation and for which his...
  • Water Services
    393. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider applications for projects of a small scale under Measure A7 of the multi-annual rural water programme for...
  • Regeneration Projects
    394. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an updated timeline for completion of the NWQR in Cork. [18916/24]
  • Legislative Measures
    396. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on legislation committed to on the renaming of streets. [18918/24]
  • Septic Tanks
    397. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will extend the grant scheme including additional designated areas to assist more householders to upgrade and-or replace...
  • Water Supply
    398. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has consulted with Uisce Éireann, An Bord Pleanála and local authorities with regard to sufficient water...
  • Departmental Advertising
    399. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding provided to advertise the lead mains replacement scheme in each of the past five years respectively, in tabular...
  • Housing Provision
    401. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of vacant homes a local authority (details supplied) has repaired in each of the last three years; and if he will...
  • National Parks and Wildlife Service
    402. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will outline the role of the National Parks and Wildlife Service in ensuring the protection of the old Irish goat,...
  • Foreshore Issues
    403. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update in relation to an application for a foreshore licence for the pontoon in Ballyshannon, County Donegal....
  • Traveller Accommodation
    404. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the caravan loan scheme will re-open again for applications in view of the fact that many Travellers are still living in...
  • Heritage Projects
    405. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to intervene with the OPW and Tailte Éireann in order to obtain clarity on their plans for the preservation of old...
  • Development Contributions
    407. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason the local authority development levies waiver does not include group water scheme connections; and if he will make...
  • European Union
    408. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to list all Acts and Statutory Instruments sponsored by his Department which became law from 20 February 2020 to date in 2024...
  • Defective Building Materials
    410. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the inclusion of County Sligo in the defective concrete blocks scheme; and if he will make a statement on the...
  • Septic Tanks
    411. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of septic tanks that have been inspected in Carlow annually since 2000 to date, in tabular form; and if he will...
  • Pensions Reform
    412. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the consideration he has given to extending the retirement age for retained firefighters; if those already approaching...
  • Election Management System
    413. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the engagement that is had by officials in his Department with local authorities tasked with maintaining the electoral...
  • Planning Issues
    415. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will publish the Mulcahy report into planning irregularities in Donegal. [19284/24]
  • Housing Schemes
    416. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average all in cost to the Exchequer for social housing acquisitions purchased in 2023 with a breakdown, by local...
  • Turf Cutting
    417. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a bog owner with two plots on a designated bog can designate a second household that used the second bog plot to receive...
  • Departmental Expenditure
    419. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide the amount of grant-aid returned and or surrendered to his Department, by local authority in 2022, 2023 and...
  • Emergency Accommodation
    420. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 411 of 5 March 2024, if the technical working group has deemed suitable for progression...
  • Departmental Communications
    421. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to a matter (details supplied); the actions he will take to ensure that this anomaly is...
  • Vacant Properties
    422. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of reports of a failure by a municipal district office (details supplied) to maintain vacant and derelict sites...
  • Housing Schemes
    424. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider allowing local authority houses acquired under the Part V planning process to be sold to tenants under the...
  • Septic Tanks
    425. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to clarify an issue in regard to septic tank grants (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19442/24]
  • Housing Policy
    426. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if consideration has been given to extending recent changes to the consideration of child maintenance as means for social...
  • Departmental Schemes
    427. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will review the funding scheme that provides funding for communal facilities at a level of €7,500 per unit of...
  • Heritage Projects
    428. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has plans to progress the proposal for a Liffey Valley park (details supplied); and if so, if he will...
  • Departmental Bodies
    431. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average time in 2023 for Táilte Éireann to resolve applications to correct mapping errors; and if he will make a...

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