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Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 10 October 2017
42. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Finance the housing and commercial properties in the possession of NAMA in County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42980/17]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 10 October 2017
33. Deputy Sean Fleming asked the Minister for Finance if long-term leasing or other similar agreements to pay rent by local authorities to approved housing bodies is included as a liability or as a debt on the Government balance sheet; the rules surrounding the level of liability which is taken onto the Government balance sheet in circumstances in which such payments are for a period of 30 years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42703/17]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 4 October 2017
229. Deputy Noel Rock asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the use to which the statistics his office receive from the RTB and the PRTB are put; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42125/17]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 4 October 2017
228. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his views regarding persons objecting to planning applications (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42124/17]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 4 October 2017
227. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if financial assistance is available for persons to install filters for private wells; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42112/17]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 4 October 2017
226. Deputy Micheál Martin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he will report on the commitment the Government has given on holding referendums on reducing the voting age to 16, the direct election of executive mayors and extending the franchise at presidential elections. [41643/17]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 4 October 2017
225. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of persons on the housing lists in counties Sligo, Leitrim, Cavan and Donegal in each of the years 2013 to 2016 and to date in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42021/17]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 4 October 2017
224. Deputy Tony McLoughlin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the reason it is taking Sligo County Council over two and half years to advance the proposed 20-unit housing development at Carrowbunnaun, Strandhill, County Sligo, to beyond Stage 1 of development; the further reason the other housing developments planned for County Sligo are also developing slowly; if funding and resources are the reason for this slow pace; his plans to address this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42008/17]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 4 October 2017
223. Deputy Tom Neville asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the decisions made by An Bord Pleanála countrywide in each of the years 2012 to 2016 that were contrary to the inspector's report. [41991/17]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 4 October 2017
222. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government when he expects new guidelines in respect of wind turbines, wind farms or solar energy farms to become effective; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42187/17]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 4 October 2017
221. Deputy John Brassil asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans to extend the period of time for slurry spreading for a time of at least 30 days due to the adverse weather conditions experienced in 2017 in order to allow farmers to effectively and efficiently spread slurry on their lands; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42178/17]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 October 2017
631. Deputy Willie Penrose asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government when the review of the 2005 rural planning guidelines will be completed; if it will take cognisance of the Court of Justice of the European Union decision in respect of Belgian authorities which significantly curtailed the ability of local and national governments to restrict the categories of person that might be eligible to build in rural areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41922/17]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 October 2017
630. Deputy Peter Burke asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the authority that polices council by-laws; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41829/17]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 October 2017
629. Deputy Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the steps that have been taken on the provision of an affordable housing scheme for the Poolbeg SDZ as agreed by his Department; the discussions that have taken place with Dublin City Council regarding same; and the discussions that have taken place with developers on the progress on developing such a scheme. [41828/17]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 October 2017
628. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the steps he will take to ensure that tenants of Part 5 houses are not discriminated against in engaging in utilising the incremental purchase scheme. [41824/17]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 October 2017
627. Deputy Hildegarde Naughton asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the reason for the significant inequity that exists in his departmental funding of local authorities (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41812/17]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 October 2017
626. Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if additional funding under a programme his Department oversees has been provided to local authorities and local community groups in areas in which refugees have been resettled under the refugee protection programme; and if so, the amount of funding allocated by local authority and community group. [41803/17]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 October 2017
625. Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he has requested local authorities to develop their own migrant integration strategies as envisaged by the national migrant integration strategy published by the Department of Justice and Equality earlier in 2017. [41802/17]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 October 2017
624. Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the significant amount of bureaucracy confronting local authorities that wish to construct housing (details supplied); if this process has been simplified over the past two years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41770/17]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 October 2017
623. Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans to release funding to Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council for the refurbishment of a group of maisonettes which are almost entirely unoccupied at St. Laurence's Park, Stillorgan, County Dublin. [41769/17]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 October 2017
622. Deputy Maurice Quinlivan asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of housing units (details supplied) that have been refurbished under the thermal upgrade programme to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41696/17]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 October 2017
621. Deputy Maurice Quinlivan asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of units (details supplied) due to commence in 2017 and 2018, in tabular form. [41695/17]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 October 2017
620. Deputy Maurice Quinlivan asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of units under construction (details supplied), in tabular form. [41694/17]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 October 2017
619. Deputy Maurice Quinlivan asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of units that are refurbishments of pre-existing structures (details supplied), in tabular form. [41693/17]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 October 2017
618. Deputy Maurice Quinlivan asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of housing units that have been constructed as part of plans (details supplied) since the original Limerick regeneration master plan in January 2008, in tabular form. [41692/17]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 October 2017
617. Deputy Mick Wallace asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he will consider disregarding an increase for qualified child payments in calculating local authority and housing association differential rents as permitted under section 31 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009; the estimated full year cost of such a change; if he will examine the methods used by local authorities and housing associations to calculate rent; and the status of his Department's framework for standardising or harmonising approaches to be adopted by local authorities in relation to various aspects of rent schemes and rent calculation. [41684/17]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 October 2017
616. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government when an affordable housing scheme will be introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41620/17]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 October 2017
615. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the measures he plans to implement to ensure equitable treatment of householders on group water schemes and householders on public water supplies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41619/17]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 October 2017
614. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the measures he will implement to reform the commercial rates system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41615/17]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 October 2017
613. Deputy Thomas P. Broughan asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of requests within his Department from both Dublin City Council and Fingal County Council seeking approval for employing extra staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41605/17]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 October 2017
612. Deputy Tom Neville asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government when the final allocation of moneys will be made available to Limerick city and Limerick County Council in relation to large project work for a group water scheme (details supplied) in County Limerick. [41560/17]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 October 2017
611. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans to introduce a new rent-to-buy scheme for those seeking to purchase a home; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41525/17]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 October 2017
610. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his views on the regulation of referendum spending in view of the advent of online advertising in which money can be spent from abroad to target particular groups of voters here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41524/17]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 October 2017
609. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the amount of the €5 billion set aside for the financing of the construction of social homes that has been spent since the announcement of the Rebuilding Ireland action plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41502/17]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 October 2017
608. Deputy Tony McLoughlin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of plans to provide incentives for the conversion of commercial properties into residential accommodation nationwide. [41489/17]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 October 2017
607. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the hardship experienced by non-Irish local authority housing applicants in cases in which they have to prove they do not own property in a country they have previously resided in; if information can be provided to applicants regarding the correct officers to contact for this information by state; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41481/17]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 October 2017
606. Deputy Jack Chambers asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the dispute resolution procedures undertaken by the Residential Tenancies Board in each of the past five years, in tabular form; the outcome in each case; if cases are still ongoing; if so, the reason for the dispute; the duration of each dispute procedure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41471/17]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 October 2017
605. Deputy Michael Harty asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his views on whether reconstituting derelict public buildings as apartments such as the former Our Lady's Hospital in Ennis might make a useful contribution to dealing with the social housing crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41464/17]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 October 2017
604. Deputy John Brassil asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the measures he will take to introduce affordable housing in order to allow persons on middle incomes the prospect of gaining a foothold on the property ladder; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41428/17]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 October 2017
603. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the regulations on the allocation of council houses on medical grounds; the regulations on the prioritisation of persons with disabilities and those with medical issues that are not considered to be disabilities for social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41377/17]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 October 2017
602. Deputy Dessie Ellis asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the large number of elderly persons' apartments unoccupied in complexes for elderly persons, for example, those in Glasanaon Court and Mellowes Court, Finglas; if such empty bedsits or apartments can be renovated to a standard to accommodate the large number of elderly persons awaiting accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41302/17]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 October 2017
601. Deputy Dessie Ellis asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of housing and family hubs in Dublin to date in 2017; the location of each; the number of housing and family hubs planned for the remainder of 2017 for Dublin; the proposed locations of each; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41301/17]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 October 2017
600. Deputy John Brady asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of completed tenant purchase scheme applications by each local authority since its introduction in 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41274/17]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 October 2017
599. Deputy Danny Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he will extend the time period in which farmers are allowed to spread slurry (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41689/17]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 October 2017
598. Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the fees payable by persons (details supplied); the rules in place regarding development charges on farm buildings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41690/17]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 October 2017
597. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government when construction is due to commence on the new extension to Drumshanbo Fire Station, County Leitrim; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41653/17]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 October 2017
274. Deputy John Brassil asked the Minister for Health his plans to amend legislation to ensure there is a provision under social and affordable housing to allow for the provision of respite housing should there be a need in the area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41526/17]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 October 2017
258. Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department has discussed refugee integration as an aspect of rural development policy with the Departments of Housing, Planning and Local Government and Rural and Community Development; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41804/17]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 October 2017
256. Deputy Catherine Martin asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of extra funding being allocated to local authorities in advance of the Syrian resettlement programme; the areas to which funding is being allocated, for example, housing, English classes, rural development and community development by year and local authority, in tabular form; if this funding is coming from the European integration fund or another body; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41800/17]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 28 September 2017
Question put: "That the motion, as amended, be agreed to."