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Question· writtenPQ 27asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 October 2017
27. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his views on the workability of the policy proposal in the strategy for the rental sector to move towards tenancies of indefinite duration in the absence of proposals to amend section 34 of the Residential Tenancies Acts to provide for security of tenure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45294/17]
Question· writtenPQ 26asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 October 2017
26. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if greater discretion will be provided to local authorities in regard to the construction of new social housing schemes and to remove unnecessary procedures that are causing delays. [45089/17]
Question· writtenPQ 25asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 October 2017
25. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government when infrastructural funding will be available to open up the proposed development road on the Ardmore Road, Mullingar, County Westmeath, to allow for future construction works. [45252/17]
Question· writtenPQ 24asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 October 2017
24. Deputy Mick Wallace asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the steps he has taken to tackle the problem of land banking and hoarding; if he is satisfied that these steps will be successful in releasing suitable land for building in the short and medium term; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45290/17]
Question· writtenPQ 23asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 October 2017
23. Deputy Mick Wallace asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his views on the system of assessing building completions used by his Department; his plans to develop a more accurate system for recording housing and apartment building completions; the position regarding the work of the internal group within his Department tasked with examining housing statistics; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45288/17]
Question· writtenPQ 22asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 October 2017
22. Deputy Dessie Ellis asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of his plan to end the use of hotels, bed and breakfasts and similar accommodation for homeless persons; if his targets are being met; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45103/17]
Question· writtenPQ 21asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 October 2017
21. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the actions his Department has implemented to help homeowners affected by the Mica issue; his plans to set up a redress scheme; the timeframe for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45098/17]
Question· writtenPQ 20asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 October 2017
20. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the cost per day of rent supplementation in the private housing sector across all housing assistance schemes (details supplied). [45293/17]
Question· writtenPQ 19asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 October 2017
19. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans to conduct a review of the terms and conditions of the housing grant scheme to allow local authorities to use discretion in the awarding of house repair grants for older persons, such as in the case in which a person has transferred ownership of their home over to one of their children but they will still continue to live in their home in order that they would be entitled to apply for and receive grant approval for works on the merits of their own income; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45308/17]
Question· writtenPQ 18asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 October 2017
18. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if an affordable housing scheme to guide councils in providing affordable homes and to ensure that affordable homes will remain affordable into the future, even if there is a change of ownership, will be put in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45303/17]
Question· writtenPQ 17asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 October 2017
17. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his views on whether the process that homeless persons must go through when there is no placement available for them from the DRHE to be satisfactory in view of the chronic shortage of both emergency placements and hotel and guesthouse accommodation; his plans to make changes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45302/17]
Question· oralPQ 16asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 October 2017
16. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the way in which he envisages reaching the housing assistance payment, HAP, targets in Rebuilding Ireland in view of current rent prices and supply problems in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45301/17]
Question· writtenPQ 15asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 October 2017
15. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the reason the midlands region receives a disproportionate homeless allocation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45253/17]
Question· oralPQ 14asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 October 2017
14. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the annual housing unit targets for the urban renewal fund announced in budget 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45249/17]
Question· writtenPQ 13asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 October 2017
13. Deputy Willie Penrose asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he will extend the slurry spreading closing date of 15 October for a further two weeks in view of the very challenging weather conditions of the past two months which has resulted in significant backlogs in getting slurry spread; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41650/17]
Question· oralPQ 12asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 October 2017
12. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans in conjunction with local authorities and other bodies to deliver the agreed number of social and affordable homes in strategic development zones, SDZs, such as at Poolbeg and Clonburris and land initiatives such as O'Devaney Gardens and the Grange. [45349/17]
Question· oralPQ 11asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 October 2017
11. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of his plans to roll out the national quality standards framework office inspection regime for emergency homeless accommodation; if all emergency accommodation, including commercial hotels and bed and breakfast establishments, will be covered by this; and if the office inspectorate will be fully independent of his Department and local authorities. [45346/17]
Question· oralPQ 10asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 October 2017
10. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if a project (details supplied) in Dublin 8 will be funded directly through Exchequer revenue rather than a private sector-led land initiative. [45348/17]
Question· oralPQ 9asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 October 2017
9. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the extent to which discussions have been entered into with the various local authorities with a view to providing rapid-build or modular housing for sale or rent to suitably qualified persons including those on the local authority housing list and others who marginally failed to qualify for local authority loans or eligibility for local authority housing on income grounds; if contracts can be entered into with the construction industry to provide such developments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45254/17]
Question· oralPQ 8asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 October 2017
8. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans to regulate short-term lettings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45250/17]
Question· writtenPQ 7asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 October 2017
7. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the estimated figures of Part V housing for 2018 and 2019; the estimated cost of this housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45284/17]
Question· oralPQ 6asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 October 2017
6. Deputy James Browne asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the steps he has taken to address the housing crisis in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45233/17]
Question· oralPQ 5asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 October 2017
5. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if a recent analysis has been carried out in respect of the baselines set for local authorities in the context of local property tax; if so, the person or body that conducted it; if it will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45091/17]
Question· oralPQ 4asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 October 2017
4. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of social housing units that have been moved to build and completed in County Tipperary in each of the years 2012 to 2016. [45538/17]
Question· oralPQ 3asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 October 2017
3. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the allocation of additional funding to homelessness services announced in budget 2018; if he has revised targets for reducing the number of homeless families and children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45568/17]
Question· oralPQ 2asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 October 2017
2. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the target number of affordable units (details supplied) to be delivered in 2018 via the local infrastructure housing activation fund, LIHAF, Home Building Finance Ireland, HBFI, and the forthcoming affordable housing scheme. [45427/17]
Question· oralPQ 1asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 October 2017
1. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans to address the finding of the European Committee of Social Rights that Ireland has substandard social housing conditions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45567/17]
Question· writtenPQ 285asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 25 October 2017
285. Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans to amend the Rebuilding Ireland strategy in view of the increase in entrants to emergency accommodation and the view by many experts that the reliance on the private market to deliver supply is fanciful; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45245/17]
Question· writtenPQ 284asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 25 October 2017
284. Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans to appoint a regulator for student housing due to the considerable increase in student housing built or planned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45244/17]
Question· writtenPQ 283asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 25 October 2017
283. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans to enable persons avail of the tenant purchase scheme that may not have a weekly income apart from a social welfare payment but are in a position from their own means or through family financial support to purchase their council family home; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the present criteria of the scheme is denying such families the opportunity to retain their homes in family ownership; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45222/17]
Question· writtenPQ 282asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 25 October 2017
282. Deputy Micheál Martin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he will report on the national emergency co-ordination meetings that he attended prior to and during Storm Ophelia. [44681/17]
Question· writtenPQ 281asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 25 October 2017
281. Deputy Brendan Ryan asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the amount of funding that has been allocated in budget 2018 to the Pyrite Remediation Board for the direct remediation of pyrite affected homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45210/17]
Question· writtenPQ 280asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 25 October 2017
280. Deputy Paul Kehoe asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the exceptions to a first time buyer condition in relation to a home choice loan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45192/17]
Question· writtenPQ 279asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 25 October 2017
279. Deputy Peter Burke asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the steps his Department is taking to increase the take up of a scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45163/17]
Question· writtenPQ 278asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 25 October 2017
278. Deputy Micheál Martin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he will report on the Citizens Assembly's recommendation on the right to housing; and if this is being examined by one of the Departments. [40678/17]
Question· writtenPQ 277asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 25 October 2017
277. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if houses rated DCR 2 by professionals on the pyrite assessors register and with damage audited by the Housing Agency without challenge to BCA rating DCR 2 will be sampled in accordance with IS 398 (2017) at the location of maximum heave (details supplied). [45129/17]
Question· writtenPQ 276asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 25 October 2017
276. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his views on whether the likely explanation for the failure to find pyrite in the underfloor fill in housing estates in which damage from pyrite has been proven is the failure of a sampling procedure (details supplied) to comply with the requirements of IS 398 (2013) (details supplied). [45128/17]
Question· writtenPQ 275asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 25 October 2017
275. Deputy Tony McLoughlin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans to extend the deadline for farmyard manure spreading in the north west region to accommodate farmers working on the wettest areas of land; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45190/17]
Question· writtenPQ 162asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 25 October 2017
162. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether a deficit of construction skills is holding back construction activity especially on the residential side; and his further views on whether the forecasts for new apprenticeship registrations in the DEIS action plan to expand new apprenticeships will be sufficient to meet labour demand to expand housing supply to 43,000 homes per annum by 2020. [45321/17]
Question· writtenPQ 431asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 October 2017
431. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the timeframe for departmental guidance on short-term letting planning permission and regulation requirements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45016/17]
Question· writtenPQ 430asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 October 2017
430. Deputy Maurice Quinlivan asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of the commercial rates Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44876/17]
Question· writtenPQ 429asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 October 2017
429. Deputy Tom Neville asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government when group water scheme subsidy funding will be made available to a group (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44864/17]
Question· writtenPQ 428asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 October 2017
428. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if the housing units funded through SHCEP for AHB build and acquisition units secured under an availability agreement are owned by the approved housing body, will be owned by the approved housing body at the end of the lease term or are and will remain in the ownership of a private third party. [44863/17]
Question· writtenPQ 427asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 October 2017
427. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the grounds on which a property owner that has leased a property under the SHCEP programme can terminate the lease prior to the end date contained in the initial agreement; and if there are time limits placed on the earliest date during the lease that a property owner can trigger these termination clauses. [44862/17]
Question· writtenPQ 426asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 October 2017
426. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the average length of leases of properties secured under the SHCEP programme by ownership type (details supplied) including repair and leasing scheme units, in tabular form. [44861/17]
Question· writtenPQ 425asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 October 2017
425. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the units delivered through SHCEP, the social housing current expenditure programme, in each of the years 2014 to 2016 and to date in 2017 by ownership (details supplied) in tabular form. [44860/17]
Question· writtenPQ 424asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 October 2017
424. Deputy Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the official storm level categorisation given to storm Ophelia by Met Éireann; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44804/17]
Question· writtenPQ 423asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 October 2017
423. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the way in which an unfinished building is added to his Department's list of officially listed derelict sites (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44802/17]
Question· writtenPQ 422asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 October 2017
422. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if his Department collects annual statistics from local authorities on the number of joint tenancies in local authority and approved body housing in which one partner relinquishes the tenancy; if so, the number of these instances it is the female partner who relinquishes their share of the tenancy leaving the male partner as the sole tenant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44794/17]
Question· writtenPQ 421asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 October 2017
421. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number and cost of Part V units purchased with funding from his Department for each year from 2008 to 2016 and to date in 2017; the target number of this type of unit to be purchased with funding from his Department in 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021; and the funding allocated for Part V purchases for each year from 2018 to 2021, in tabular form. [44783/17]
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