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Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 10 December 2020
261. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of persons currently on social housing waiting lists by local authority in tabular form. [42677/20]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 10 December 2020
260. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the affordable cost rental programme; the developments that are currently planned; the status of each; the projected cost; the number of units; the likely monthly cost; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42676/20]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 10 December 2020
259. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the terms of reference will be provided for the cross-departmental working group on cost rental; the membership of the group; and the expected date for delivery of its findings. [42675/20]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 10 December 2020
258. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the breakdown of private rented accommodation HAP tenancies in 2018, 2019 and to date in 2020; the number of inspections in which further enforcement action was taken in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42674/20]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 10 December 2020
257. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of households categorised as living in overcrowded accommodation on the social housing list by local authority in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42673/20]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 10 December 2020
256. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans to bring forward legislation on the issue of overcrowding in private rented accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42672/20]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 10 December 2020
255. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the private rented accommodation inspections by local authorities in 2018, 2019 and 2020; the number of inspections in which further enforcement action was taken in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42671/20]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 10 December 2020
254. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if a funding package will be put in place to cover the cost of already completed stabilisation works by Leitrim County Council on the Dawn of Hope Bridge, Drumkeerin and associated works carried out on local infrastructure such as roads and so on to address the impact caused by the recent landslide on Shass Mountain; and if a funding package will be put in place to complete all necessary future works including a compensation package for farmers. [42643/20]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 10 December 2020
253. Deputy Noel Grealish asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the promised legislation for exemptions for planning permission for rooftop solar installations will be introduced in Dáil Éireann; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42634/20]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 10 December 2020
252. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount of funding allocated by his Department to Longford County Council for the provision of social housing for persons with disabilities in each of the years 2017 to 2019 and to date in 2020. [42594/20]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 10 December 2020
251. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of accommodation units provided under the Traveller accommodation scheme by Longford County Council in each of the years 2017 to 2019; and the targets set for the local authority for each of these years. [42593/20]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 10 December 2020
250. Deputy James Lawless asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the conditions applicable to allow a local authority to complete the sale of its property and land for community gain or benefit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42589/20]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 10 December 2020
249. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his specific plans for the housing of single persons given that it takes two salaries to pay rent or a mortgage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42579/20]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 10 December 2020
248. Deputy Francis Noel Duffy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the steps that can be taken to rectify the ongoing situation in a development (details supplied) which contravenes the spirit of Part V of the Housing Act 2000 by encouraging the segregation of the recipients of social housing in the development from services available to all other residents, thus alienating them from their community; the steps that can be taken to prevent this happening elsewhere; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42542/20]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 10 December 2020
247. Deputy Joe O'Brien asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the steps being taken to ensure Ireland is meeting legal responsibilities under SI No. 285 of 2011 - European Communities Conservation of Wild Birds (Malahide Estuary Special Protection Area 004025) Regulations 2011 in terms of protecting the Malahide Estuary area of special protection. [42735/20]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 December 2020
166. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he had regard to the strategic housing development planning application on the former Bessborough estate in Cork; if his attention has been drawn to the findings of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes' fifth interim report which found that the burial place of more than 800 children to be unknown (details supplied); and if such a finding gives rise to a concern that any successful application for planning could hinder any future findings in respect of the existence of burial sites on the proposed development on the land at Bessborough. [42280/20]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 December 2020
87. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the bodies under the aegis of his Department; and the composition of their respective board memberships, disaggregated by appointments through the Public Appointments Service or ministerial appointments in tabular form. [42482/20]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 December 2020
86. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason illness benefit is classed as a temporary payment for the purposes of social housing assessment. [42463/20]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 December 2020
85. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the net income limits for social housing will be updated in line with inflation given that the last date published was 2 June 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42372/20]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 December 2020
Joint Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 December 2020
299. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if it will be ensured that all the requirements of the work safely protocol issued on 20 November 2020, are implemented with particular reference to the contents of section D3 (details supplied) in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42605/20]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 December 2020
298. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the percentage or number of staff working with a disability within his Department and the agencies under his aegis in 2018, 2019 and 2020; and the actions being undertaken by his Department to actively recruit and retain persons with disabilities. [42147/20]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 December 2020
297. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when it is planned to provide planning permission exemptions for the installation of solar photovoltaic rooftop panels on community school and community buildings as well as amending the regulations pertaining to same on houses and businesses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42098/20]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 December 2020
296. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the action he will take to ensure that priority is given to residential developments that are within 15 minutes' walk or 15 minutes morning peak hour public transport accessibility of a high density employment cluster, defined as 500 workers per hectare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42081/20]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 December 2020
295. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the action he proposes to take to tackle advertised rental properties which consist of less than the 29 square metres per person as recommended in the report furnished to him by his Department’s planning division on co-living shared accommodation. [42080/20]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 December 2020
294. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans to review or support An Bord Pleanála structures and performance in view of the concerning number of times the board’s decisions are quashed in the High Court (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42041/20]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 December 2020
293. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of applications for mortgage-to-rent since the scheme was introduced; the number of applicants who have been improved; and the number of mortgage-to-rent sales closed by year since the scheme was introduced. [42040/20]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 December 2020
292. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number and location of properties in each town, village and rural area within each local authority area approved under the repair and lease scheme and the buy and renew scheme since inception to date in 2020, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42039/20]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 December 2020
291. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount of capital funding owed by his Department to each local authority by capital funding type, that is, social housing, retrofitting, maintenance, adaptation grants and so on, in tabular form. [42035/20]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 December 2020
290. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 362 of 6 October 2020, if he will extend the pyrite remediation scheme to County Clare as the submission has now been received and he recently extended the scheme to County Limerick. [42032/20]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 December 2020
289. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of households on housing assistance payment, HAP, in County Meath that are on social housing waiting lists in Dublin rather than County Meath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42023/20]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 December 2020
288. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his attention has been drawn to the disadvantage being experienced by prospective housing assistance payment, HAP, tenants from County Meath competing in County Meath with prospective HAP tenants from Dublin local authority areas, particularly in the Dublin hinterland; the basis on which this disadvantage arises, for example, if it relates to different HAP rates, council differential rent rates, homeless HAP rates, top-ups or other; his plans to address this disadvantage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42022/20]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 December 2020
287. Deputy Kieran O'Donnell asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he plans to launch the next call of the urban regeneration and development fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42016/20]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 December 2020
286. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of persons using homeless services that have died to date in 2020 and in the same period over the past three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41940/20]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 December 2020
285. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 239 of 26 November 2020, when applicants for funding can expect to hear from the NPWS; if the funding set aside will be enough to cover the applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41922/20]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 December 2020
284. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his attention has been drawn to the fact that homeless deaths nationally are not reported and that this is causing distress to many of those working in the sector. [41752/20]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 December 2020
283. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if consideration has been given to a national task force on homeless deaths. [41751/20]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 December 2020
282. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will publish national figures on homeless deaths. [41750/20]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 December 2020
281. Deputy Joan Collins asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the new guidance will be issued to local authorities in relation to co-living as a delay will allow developers to submit co-living planning applications to avoid any proposed ban on such developments. [41699/20]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 December 2020
280. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his ministerial regulations allow a single person who requires an apartment on their own on medical grounds, for example, cystic fibrosis, access a higher level of housing assistance payment than is normal for a single person; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41548/20]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 December 2020
279. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his attention has been drawn to the fact that private mortgage to rent providers are outbidding not for profit mortgage to rent providers on mortgage to rent deals and in doing so introducing a level of risk to the stability of the mortgage to rent tenancy; and his plans in this regard. [41523/20]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 December 2020
278. Deputy Paul McAuliffe asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the progress to date in reforming and consolidating compulsory purchase order laws as outlined in the Programme for Government. [41449/20]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 December 2020
277. Deputy Paul McAuliffe asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the progress to date in examining the creation of a system of holding rental deposits informed by international experience as outlined in the Programme for Government. [41448/20]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 December 2020
276. Deputy Paul McAuliffe asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the progress to date in expanding the role of vacant homes officers in local authorities and support local authorities to bring vacant stock into productive use as outlined in the Programme for Government. [41447/20]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 December 2020
275. Deputy Paul McAuliffe asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the progress made in providing seed capital to local authorities to provide serviced sites at cost in towns and villages to allow persons and families build homes as outlined in the Programme for Government. [41446/20]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 December 2020
274. Deputy Alan Dillon asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the timeline for a decision on the approval of the construction of a 22-unit social housing development at Lios na Circe, Castlebar, County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41367/20]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 December 2020
273. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 240 of 26 November 2020, if his Department and the National Parks and Wildlife Service will liaise with voluntary organisations involved in conservation to develop a more cost-effective strategy for feral mink control and or eradication than that which would cost €100 million over five years for the island of Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41336/20]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 December 2020
272. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the application by Dublin City Council for funding under the urban regeneration and development fund to kickstart its development proposals for a number of projects in the Cherry Orchard area was successful; if so, the funding granted; and the projects funding was granted to. [41247/20]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 December 2020
271. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he has raised with Irish Water the frequency with which some businesses experience water outages as in the case of a business (details supplied); his views on such outages; if the rates businesses pay go towards maintaining infrastructure for the water supply; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41217/20]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 December 2020
270. Deputy Ciarán Cannon asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the development of a new fire station in Athenry town, County Galway (details supplied). [41211/20]