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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (1 Jul 2025)

Eoin Ó Broin: 11. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a date for when his revised housing plan will be completed and published. [35826/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (1 Jul 2025)

James Browne: The programme for Government commits to the introduction of a new, all-of-government national housing plan to follow Housing for All, underpinned by multi-annual funding. This plan will take a whole-of-government approach, as Housing for All did. My Department is engaging across government to agree the high-level measures to be included in the plan. They must be supported by the required...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (1 Jul 2025)

Christopher O'Sullivan: On the tenet of the Deputy's original question on assessment, I really believe that is the role of a county development plan. It assesses towns and villages with regard to the various infrastructural needs within them. The national development plan will be announced shortly. Funding for Uisce Éireann will be formed, modelled and moulded around this. This is very important also. ...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions (1 Jul 2025)

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Wastewater Treatment (1 Jul 2025)

Wastewater Treatment

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Wastewater Treatment (1 Jul 2025)

Joe Cooney: 8. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps his Department is taking to deliver the extra funding identified by local authorities, his Department and Uisce Éireann, as being necessary to deliver the measure 8 rural water programme; when that funding might be forthcoming; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35594/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Wastewater Treatment (1 Jul 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 30. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the pilot scheme announced by his Department to provide for sewage in unsewered villages in 2024 requires additional funding; if he has made this funding available; if he will provide an update on all schemes that have received initial approval; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35545/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Wastewater Treatment (1 Jul 2025)

Joe Cooney: The lack of wastewater treatment is highlighted as one of the biggest blockages in the delivery of Government housing targets. In 2022, the Minister announced €50 million under the rural water programme to deliver treatment systems in towns and villages that are not serviced. Three years on, none of these projects have begun. Will the Minister distribute these funds to any local...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Wastewater Treatment (1 Jul 2025)

Christopher O'Sullivan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 8 and 30 together. I thank Deputy Cooney for raising this issue. Clearly the need for investment in infrastructure, particularly wastewater services in our towns and villages, is a priority and a recurring theme that we hear. It is a priority of the Minister, Deputy Browne, of the Minister of State, Deputy Cummins, and of mine, in terms of delivering...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Wastewater Treatment (1 Jul 2025)

Joe Cooney: I understand from speaking to colleagues from other counties involved in this scheme that some are much further along in the process than others. I know that Clare County Council can progress if the Department confirms funding for the two projects in Broadford and Cooraclare. These two settlements have demonstrated significant commitment to the proposal of public treatment systems. I asked...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Wastewater Treatment (1 Jul 2025)

Christopher O'Sullivan: The Deputy is absolutely right that there are two projects in Clare and it is very important that these projects in Broadford and Cooraclare are being considered. I was in Clare the other day and I have to commend the proactive nature of the local authority. It is important that it got these two schemes in for consideration for the €45 million funding. As I have said, there has been...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Wastewater Treatment (1 Jul 2025)

Joe Cooney: In Minister of State's own words, the housing crisis is an emergency. The lack of a treatment system in towns and villages is one of the causes of this emergency, yet the money to develop such systems in towns and villages that are not serviced has been sitting in the Department's bank account for the past three years. The county council is clearly committed to delivering this scheme in two...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Wastewater Treatment (1 Jul 2025)

Christopher O'Sullivan: I reassure the Deputy that there is absolutely no backtracking on the commitment to provide solutions for these rural villages. As I have said, the Minister, Deputy Browne, and the Minister of State, Deputy Cummins, recently brought forward the national planning framework, which gives a clear commitment on regional growth and regional development and allowing people to live in rural parts of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Wastewater Treatment (1 Jul 2025)

Question No. 9 taken with Written Answers.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Legislative Measures (1 Jul 2025)

Legislative Measures

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Legislative Measures (1 Jul 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: 10. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the progress of the legislation to underpin the apartment defects remediation scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35771/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Legislative Measures (1 Jul 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 36. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the defects remediation scheme for apartment owners. [35765/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Legislative Measures (1 Jul 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Minister will be well aware of the anguish, worry and stalled lives of families living in apartments with structural defects, be they fire safety issues or water leakages, which they experience through no fault of their own. The defective apartment remediation scheme is a lifeline that will finally allow these families to move on. The Minister will appreciate how important that...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Schemes (1 Jul 2025)

Thomas Gould: The Minister stated the Government has delivered 3,600 units. That sums up its delivery. There were no cost-rental units in 2020. There were 65 in 2021, 684 in 2022, 869 in 2023 and 2,027 last year. That is still below the Government's targets. The Government has never delivered and has in fact missed every target it has set over the past four or five years. On top of that, in respect...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Schemes (1 Jul 2025)

James Browne: I thank the Deputy. As he is fully aware, the cost-rental scheme did not exist in 2020 and that is why no units were delivered. On cost rental, some people cannot afford those rents and that is why we are providing a number of different solutions for people in order for them to access the homes they need at an affordable price. That may be purchase or rent and may involve cost rental,...