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Question· writtenPQ 771asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 September 2017
771. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of social homes that will be completed and ready to be occupied in County Meath by the end of 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39390/17]
Question· writtenPQ 770asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 September 2017
770. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of social homes that will be completed and ready to be occupied in County Wicklow by the end of 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39383/17]
Question· writtenPQ 769asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 September 2017
769. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of social homes that will be completed and ready to be occupied in the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council area by the end of 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39389/17]
Question· writtenPQ 768asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 September 2017
768. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of social homes that will be completed and ready to be occupied in the Fingal County Council area by the end of 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39387/17]
Question· writtenPQ 767asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 September 2017
767. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of social homes that will be completed and ready to be occupied in the Dublin City Council area by the end of 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39388/17]
Question· writtenPQ 766asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 September 2017
766. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of social homes that will be completed and ready to be occupied in the south Dublin county area by the end of 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39386/17]
Question· writtenPQ 765asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 September 2017
765. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of staff directly employed by the Residential Tenancies Board, RTB; the way in which this compares to each of the years 2014 to 2016; the additional functions which have been added; the resources which were provided with additional functions; the additional resources the RTB sought; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39373/17]
Question· writtenPQ 764asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 September 2017
764. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the specific allocation of funding for homelessness services by local authority; the amount self-funded by each local authority; the personnel dedicated to homelessness services by local authority; the changes which have occurred in each year since 2014; the councils which are grouped in regional bands; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39367/17]
Question· writtenPQ 763asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 September 2017
763. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of cases undertaken by the Residential Tenancies Board, RTB, in each of the years 2014, 2015 and 2016; the number of those cases resolved by mediation; the number resolved by tribunals; the number of enforcement actions; the number of cases which were referred to the courts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39362/17]
Question· writtenPQ 762asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 September 2017
762. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the data which was used in arriving at the baseline for the local property tax, LPT, in 2014; when the 2014 baseline was amended in 2017; the way in which the changes were calculated; the further calculation being considered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39320/17]
Question· writtenPQ 761asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 September 2017
761. Deputy Michael McGrath asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of social houses built by local authorities in each of the years since 2000, in tabular form; the number of units received by each local authority by way of Part V; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39282/17]
Question· writtenPQ 760asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 September 2017
760. Deputy Michael McGrath asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the details of persons currently on secondment from a local authority to his Department; the length of the secondment in each case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39281/17]
Question· writtenPQ 759asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 September 2017
759. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if the Central Mental Hospital site is one of the circa 800 publicly owned sites that are to be made available for the construction of housing as reported in the media (details supplied) earlier in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39275/17]
Question· writtenPQ 758asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 September 2017
758. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the position that would arise if a local authority were not to notify his Department by the designated date of its decision in respect of the local property tax for the following year; the process that would be followed by his Department in such a circumstance to notify the Revenue Commissioners of the LPT from that local authority for the following year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39237/17]
Question· writtenPQ 757asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 September 2017
757. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of an application for funding for the upgrade and realignment of the Ardmore road to accelerate housing provision at Ardmore, Mullingar, County Westmeath submitted by Westmeath County Council under the Local Infrastructure Housing Activation fund in November 2016; and if this application will be responded to in a timely manner to enable Westmeath county council install this infrastructure and help address housing supply issues. [39203/17]
Question· writtenPQ 756asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 September 2017
756. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the powers available to local authorities to continue to support housing under the rental accommodation scheme in rent reviews within rent pressure zones which result in significant differences with open market rent prices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39201/17]
Question· writtenPQ 755asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 September 2017
755. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the supports that are being provided to local authorities to find replacement housing for tenants under the rental accommodation scheme in circumstances in which landlords withdraw from the scheme due to limits of the rent pressure zones; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39200/17]
Question· writtenPQ 754asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 September 2017
754. Deputy Jackie Cahill asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the allocation Tipperary County Council received for the housing adaptation grant for persons with a disability, home owner, local authority tenant, housing aid for older people and mobility aids grant in 2017; the percentage of this allocation compared to 2016; the percentage of that allocation that has been received by Tipperary County Council for each grant category; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39199/17]
Question· writtenPQ 753asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 September 2017
753. Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of checks carried out by his Department on HAP properties; the time between approval to join the scheme and the first inspection; the position in the event that an inspection results in a fail; the number of properties and or landlords that have been removed from HAP having failed an inspection; the obligations of landlords of failed properties to the sitting tenants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39187/17]
Question· writtenPQ 752asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 September 2017
752. Deputy Declan Breathnach asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of housing estates in each county that have not been taken in charge by local authorities for which no bond was in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39137/17]
Question· writtenPQ 751asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 September 2017
751. Deputy Declan Breathnach asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he will consider making funding available for the taking in charge of estates other than ghost estates in circumstances in which the builder has gone bankrupt with no bond in place; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that local authorities are slow to take estates in charge in circumstances in which no bond is in place and works have been left undone; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39136/17]
Question· writtenPQ 750asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 September 2017
750. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans to address the lack of affordable and secure rental accommodation available to a significant share of the population; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39050/17]
Question· writtenPQ 749asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 September 2017
749. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the reason for limiting the terms of the mortgage to rent scheme to only those persons that qualify for social housing; his plans to extend the scheme in order that persons with distressed mortgages may qualify; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39749/17]
Question· writtenPQ 748asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 September 2017
748. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if the same rules are applicable in circumstances in which farmers have drains running into rivers (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39318/17]
Question· writtenPQ 747asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 September 2017
747. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if conditions are in place for low nitrate rate, low risk farmers (details supplied); the details of those farmers exempt from this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39317/17]
Question· writtenPQ 746asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 September 2017
746. Deputy Fiona O'Loughlin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the elections in Ireland an Irish citizen is entitled to vote in; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39296/17]
Question· writtenPQ 745asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 September 2017
745. Deputy Fiona O'Loughlin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the persons entitled to vote in referendums and Presidential elections here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39292/17]
Question· writtenPQ 735asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 September 2017
735. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons currently in receipt of rent support; the cost on an annual basis; the extent to which new build local authority housing can address the housing need directly and in preference to rent support; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39884/17]
Question· writtenPQ 734asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 September 2017
734. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which she remains satisfied that the rent support system operated by her Department is adequate and sensitive to the needs of persons that find themselves under pressure from increased rent; if provisions in respect of the rent pressure zones have been sufficient to meet the demand; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39883/17]
Question· writtenPQ 733asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 September 2017
733. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons whose rent support has been reduced in the past two years; the extent, if known, to which the persons subsequently became homeless; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39882/17]
Question· writtenPQ 148asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 September 2017
148. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Finance his views on the proposal by the Congress of Trade Unions that the proceeds from the sale of shares in a bank (details supplied) should go towards solving the State's housing and homelessness emergency by diverting these funds into a new social housing programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39048/17]
Question· writtenPQ 64asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 September 2017
64. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the extent to which her attention has been drawn to the serious dependency on rent support from her Department for persons on lower incomes from employment or social welfare, with particular reference to the need to ensure that the issues of homelessness are not exacerbated by reference to use of legislation or guidelines more applicable to a time when housing was not an issue; if she will pay particular attention to reduction or cessation of rent support which may have resulted in homelessness in the course of the past year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39647/17]
Question· oralPQ 3asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 September 2017
3. Deputy Brendan Howlin asked the Taoiseach his plans to establish a Cabinet committee on infrastructure and housing. [32693/17]
Question· oralPQ 2asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 September 2017
2. Deputy Joan Burton asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the Cabinet committee on housing. [32151/17]
Question· writtenPQ 2077asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 11 September 2017
2077. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he will provide funding and set targets for the operation of the financial contribution scheme in view of its success in the past, the popularity of the scheme with older persons and the sustainability of the freeing up of family homes in established housing estates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38995/17]
Question· writtenPQ 2076asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 11 September 2017
2076. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he will give consideration to requiring a fixed percentage of housing development to be dedicated to older persons' housing in order to cater for full life cycle housing location; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38994/17]
Question· writtenPQ 2075asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 11 September 2017
2075. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he will introduce an older persons' housing designation for private sector housing schemes which would facilitate older persons in downsizing and would also ensure that such schemes would remain in use for older persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38993/17]
Question· writtenPQ 2074asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 11 September 2017
2074. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the collection rates for commercial rates by each local authority; the amounts collected in the last year for which figures are available in each case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38965/17]
Question· writtenPQ 2073asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 11 September 2017
2073. Deputy Sean Fleming asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government what grants or financial supports available to persons who own their own house in circumstances (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38949/17]
Question· writtenPQ 2072asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 11 September 2017
2072. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he will provide a list of all Part V housing units funded by his Department in the past 12 months, by housing development listing; the number of units in each development; and the cost to his Department for units on each development, in tabular form. [38929/17]
Question· writtenPQ 2071asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 11 September 2017
2071. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the expenditure savings that are earmarked for his Department for 2018 that are not accounted for in the mid-year expenditure report or are not included in the fiscal space calculations for 2018. [38905/17]
Question· writtenPQ 2070asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 11 September 2017
2070. Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the Brexit related research currently being undertaken by his Department; the topics under consideration; the date this research commenced; the expected date for completion and publication in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38889/17]
Question· writtenPQ 2069asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 11 September 2017
2069. Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the membership and role of all Brexit related stakeholder engagement groups working with his Department on Brexit issues; the number of times each stakeholder group has met; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38857/17]
Question· writtenPQ 2068asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 11 September 2017
2068. Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his Department’s priorities for risk mitigation in response to Brexit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38841/17]
Question· writtenPQ 2067asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 11 September 2017
2067. Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of vacancies in his Department for Brexit-related roles; the expected date for these roles to be filled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38825/17]
Question· writtenPQ 2066asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 11 September 2017
2066. Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the funds have been allocated in response to threats resulting from Brexit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38809/17]
Question· writtenPQ 2065asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 11 September 2017
2065. Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the funds that have been requested in response to threats resulting from Brexit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38777/17]
Question· writtenPQ 2064asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 11 September 2017
2064. Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the methodology employed in the prioritisation of responses to Brexit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38761/17]
Question· writtenPQ 2063asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 11 September 2017
2063. Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the scenario planning that has been conducted by his Department for Brexit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38745/17]
Question· writtenPQ 2062asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 11 September 2017
2062. Deputy Stephen S. Donnelly asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the details of issues identified for consideration in the context of Brexit including threats and their prioritisation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38729/17]
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