Written answers
Tuesday, 9 April 2024
Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
- Public Sector Pensions
590. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he plans to bring forward changes to the public service pension to allow workers to work past their contracted retirement... - Development Contributions
591. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the temporary development contribution waiver scheme; whether he is considering extending it; and if he will make... - Referendum Campaigns
593. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when a referendum on maintaining water services in public ownership will be held. [15691/24] - Local Authorities
597. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of vacancies in Galway City Council and Galway County Council; if he is aware of recruitment difficulties within... - Departmental Data
598. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how many local authority tenants in Dublin city have had their homes retrofitted; how many are planned to be carried out over... - Housing Schemes
599. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there is a mechanism available to a council tenant who was allocated an OPD property that was not specially adapted and... - Commercial Rates
600. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider amending the way that the rates valuation on islands are calculated in view of the lack of public services... - Housing Policy
601. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what his plans are to deal with the number of new apartments being for built for rent as opposed to for sale; if he plans to... - Regeneration Projects
603. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide this Deputy with a note on the outcome of his Department's consideration of a project (details supplied);... - Departmental Data
604. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of staff employed in Galway City Council and Galway County Council housing departments, respectively, each year... - Defective Building Materials
605. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of the possible closure of a child care service (details supplied) as a result of the presence of defective... - Departmental Reports
608. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the report reviewing housing adaptation grants for older people and people with a disability; to... - Environmental Policy
609. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the ramifications for the Government, and Irish farmers and landowners, following the passage of the Nature Restoration Law in... - Official Travel
610. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount spent by his Department on travel and accommodation costs associated with ministerial visits abroad to date in... - Departmental Properties
611. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of vacant properties either owned or leased by his Department; the length of time the properties have been vacant;... - Defective Building Materials
612. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there are targeted measures to support tenants who have to leave their rental accommodation undergoing pyrite remediation... - Heritage Projects
613. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the LGMA and the National Town Centre First office will carry out a long-awaited collaborative town centre health check... - Defective Building Materials
618. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will extend the enhanced defective concrete blocks grant scheme to include homes built in County Leitrim; and if he will... - National Monuments
619. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason, regarding the Moore Street area, which holds the oldest surviving street market in Ireland, a 1916 battleground... - Legislative Process
620. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to explain the delay in publishing and introducing the Marine Protected Areas Bill, and to set out the impact this delay will... - Electric Vehicles
623. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there is any provision for a requirement for retrospective installations of electric vehicle or EV charging points in... - Housing Schemes
624. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason a cost-rental tenant in situ application (details supplied) was cancelled; and if the application will be reviewed... - Housing Policy
626. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for clarification on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14030/24] - Septic Tanks
628. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how many septic tanks have been inspected in Carlow to date, in tabular form, annually since 2000; and if he will make a... - Housing Schemes
630. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to give consideration to including Part V properties under the tenant purchase scheme; and if he will make a statement on the... - Planning Issues
631. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether he intends to change the law in light of the decision in a case (details supplied) to ensure that applications for... - Electoral Process
632. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to merge the voter registration websites checktheregister.ie and voter.ie; and if he will make a statement on the... - Departmental Advertising
633. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department uses community radio for advertising and public awareness campaigns; if not, the reason, given the vital... - Housing Schemes
634. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied); if he will raise the matter with decision-making... - Local Authorities
637. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a timeline is set for the process to recruit a Chief Executive Officer to Cork County Council; the term of the contract for... - State Bodies
638. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of concerns that Tailte Éireann has commenced the practice of not providing reasons for rejection when... - Housing Schemes
639. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of staff working at processing HAP applications in the HAP offices in Limerick, in tabular form. [14301/24] - Electoral Process
642. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the evidence on which the decision was made to close voting at 8 pm on Whiddy Island for the recent referendum on 8 March... - International Protection
643. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if an exempted development regulation for the change of use of a wide repository of buildings for the accommodation of... - Fire Safety
644. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide details on how the interim fire safety defect scheme will work for individuals who have already paid for... - Housing Policy
645. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 197 of 14 February 2024, the status of the development of the new rural housing... - Planning Issues
646. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 198 of 14 February 2024, the status of the steering group which will agree and guide the... - Public Private Partnerships
647. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 708 and 709 of 20 March, the percentage of the unitary payment for social housing PPP... - Vacant Properties
649. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on his Department's audit of vacant and derelict homes across the State; the number of vacant and... - Departmental Data
650. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on his Department's audit of vacant and derelict homes across the State; the number of vacant and... - Departmental Correspondence
651. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he received correspondences from a group (details supplied); and when the group can expect a substantive response to the... - Defective Building Materials
652. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason an applicant under the enhanced defective concrete blocks grant scheme cannot be paid a stage payment and rental... - Mayoral Election
653. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a referendum on a directly elected mayor for Dublin will take place on the same day as the 2024 local elections. [14575/24] - Planning Issues
654. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to list the dates on which he or any of his advisors has met with representatives of an organisation (details supplied) since... - Emergency Accommodation
656. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether emergency accommodation can be refused on the basis of a previous eviction from social housing; whether there is a... - Local Authorities
657. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether he has implemented second chance principles for those in recovery from addiction to access social housing. [14583/24] - Housing Schemes
660. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how much funding was allocated by his Department in 2023 and 2024 to the communal facilities in housing projects; and how much... - Departmental Data
661. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to list, in tabular form, the community and communal facilities funding options available for new mixed tenure housing... - Derelict Sites
662. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the derelict sites levies levied, collected, owed and cumulatively owed and the number of sites on their register on 31... - Commercial Rates
663. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether there is any consideration being given to waiving rates for charity shops given the increasing cost of doing business;... - Water Services
664. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if, in relation to his commitment to support a referendum enshrining public ownership of our water services in the... - Wildlife Regulations
666. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how many bird of prey licences were issued for taking birds from the wild from 2014 to date; and the breakdown of taking birds... - Rental Sector
669. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the prospect of implementing a rent transparency register in the private rental sector which he supported during the... - Defective Building Materials
670. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason the second meeting of the sub-group set up to examining issues relating to the enhanced DCB scheme, which met on 11... - Local Elections
671. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if firefighters can be excluded from Circular LG(P) 06/09 ''Local Government Act 2001 (Section 161) Order 2004'' which... - Local Authorities
672. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated number of affordable housing schemes, in tabular form, by cost rental and affordable purchase, that are planned... - National Parks and Wildlife Service
673. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what steps are being taken by the NPWS to prevent severe overgrazing in Killarney National Park by non-native invasive species... - Rental Sector
676. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will extend the remit of the Residential Tenancies Board in order that legal assistance can be given to users of the... - National Parks
677. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason a park management plan has not been produced for Killarney National Park since 2005; and if he will make a... - National Parks and Wildlife Service
679. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a proper science-based and holistic ecological restoration programme, based on IUCN guidelines, would be implemented in the... - Housing Schemes
682. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the implementation of the Government agreement to extend the rent-a-room relief scheme disregard to... - Local Authorities
683. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a breakdown of the 1830 social housing acquisitions in 2023, by categories, vacant acquisitions, tenant-in-situ... - House Prices
685. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average cost of affordable homes delivered in 2023 under the Affordable Housing Fund (total cost and AHF cost), the Cost... - Planning Issues
686. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the percentage of planning appeals decided within four months which is the statutory objective under the current law; whether... - Departmental Funding
687. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the cost to the Exchequer resulting from funding the Land Development Agency either directly or indirectly through other... - Local Authorities
689. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average cost per unit of new-build social housing delivered in 2023, broken down by SHIP construction, SHIP turnkey, CALF... - Departmental Schemes
690. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will reconsider awarding a built heritage investment grant to a person (details supplied); and if there is an appeal... - Local Authorities
691. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons on local authority housing lists aged over 65 years, by gender and by county, in tabular form; and if he... - Office of Public Works
692. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there are any plans to assist a service in supplying a support (details supplied) in County Carlow; and if he will make a... - Housing Schemes
694. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how many homes were delivered through the repair and lease scheme in Longford for the years 2021, 2022 and 2023, in tabular... - Vacant Properties
695. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether he is aware of a property (details supplied) in Cork city that has been reportedly vacant for five years and is... - Legislative Programme
696. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15123/24] - Housing Schemes
697. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average duration of the lease agreement in place for properties restored under the repair and leasing scheme; the cost of... - Housing Provision
699. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the social housing delivery targets for 2024; if he will provide, in tabular form, a breakdown of the projected new build... - Housing Schemes
702. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how many approvals have issued under the First Home Scheme to date; how many of those approvals have been drawn down; if he... - Departmental Schemes
708. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if grant assistance is available for a club (details supplied) to provide worker accommodation; and if he will make a... - Local Authorities
709. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total social housing output as advised to his Department by a local authority (details supplied) in the years 2018 to 2023... - Housing Provision
710. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a progress report on the €8 million project of 30 new social houses at Deerpark, Ennistymon, County... - Fire Stations
712. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the new fire station in Dunleer, County Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15346/24] - Water Pollution
713. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of a situation (details supplied); what measures he plans to introduce to deal with same; and if he will make a... - Water Supply
715. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide details on the total subsidy due to a water scheme (details supplied); the reason for withholding this payment;... - Departmental Staff
716. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a list of all ASGs and POs in his Department with their current responsibilities. [15378/24] - Planning Issues
717. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the Planning and Development Act 2000 incorporates the principles of Universal Design; and if the Planning and Development... - Defective Building Materials
718. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the next sub-group meeting regarding defective blocks will happen; if he will consider up-front payments to homeowners... - Homeless Persons Supports
719. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how many people in Clare have died while homeless in each of the past ten years, in tabular form; and if he will make a... - Housing Schemes
721. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will increase the homeless HAP for single parents who have received a notice to quit in the Mid-West region, as the... - Defective Building Materials
723. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline the initial grant offered to homeowners impacted by the defective blocks scheme; the reason there will be variances...
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