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Question· writtenPQ 690asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 April 2024
690. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will reconsider awarding a built heritage investment grant to a person (details supplied); and if there is an appeal avenue for this grant scheme. [15019/24]
Question· writtenPQ 689asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 April 2024
689. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average cost per unit of new-build social housing delivered in 2023, broken down by SHIP construction, SHIP turnkey, CALF construction (including full cost and CALF cost), CALF turnkey (including full cost and CALF cost), CAS construction, CAS turnkey, Local Authority Part V, AHB Part V, acquisition, Affordable Housing Fund (including full cost and AHF cost), Cost Rental Equity Loan (including full cost and CREL cost), in tabular form. [15017/24]
Question· writtenPQ 688asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 April 2024
688. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the impact on the Exchequer of the Government decision in 2023 to provide the Land Development Agency with an additional €1.25 billion in funding through the ISIF; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15006/24]
Question· writtenPQ 687asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 April 2024
687. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the cost to the Exchequer resulting from funding the Land Development Agency either directly or indirectly through other public bodies such as the ISIF each year since 2018, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15005/24]
Question· writtenPQ 686asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 April 2024
686. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the percentage of planning appeals decided within four months which is the statutory objective under the current law; whether it is intended to provide further resources urgently to An bord Pleanála to ensure that this objective is achieved in the vast majority of all appeals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15002/24]
Question· writtenPQ 685asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 April 2024
685. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average cost of affordable homes delivered in 2023 under the Affordable Housing Fund (total cost and AHF cost), the Cost Rental Equity Loan (total cost and CREL cost) and LDA cost rental. [15001/24]
Question· writtenPQ 684asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 April 2024
684. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a breakdown of the 8110 social housing new builds delivered in 2023, by delivery streams, SHIP construction, SHIP turnkey, CALF construction, CALF turnkey, CAS construction, CAS turnkey, Local Authority Part V, Approved Housing Body Part V and regeneration and PPP. [15000/24]
Question· writtenPQ 683asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 April 2024
683. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a breakdown of the 1830 social housing acquisitions in 2023, by categories, vacant acquisitions, tenant-in-situ acquisitions, buy and renew acquisitions and mortgage-to-rent acquisitions; and to provide a breakdown of each category, by local authority. [14999/24]
Question· writtenPQ 682asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 April 2024
682. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on the implementation of the Government agreement to extend the rent-a-room relief scheme disregard to social welfare recipients, extend the disregard into medical card criteria, and permit local authority tenancies access the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14996/24]
Question· writtenPQ 681asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 April 2024
681. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if those affected have to pay out in relation to the fire safety redress scheme in order that works can be completed and then the OMC can seek the refund from the redress scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14984/24]
Question· writtenPQ 680asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 April 2024
680. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the steps that are being taken to address the issue of rhododendron infestation in Killarney National Park; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14935/24]
Question· writtenPQ 679asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 April 2024
679. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if a proper science-based and holistic ecological restoration programme, based on IUCN guidelines, would be implemented in the park by the National Parks and Wildlife Service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14915/24]
Question· writtenPQ 678asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 April 2024
678. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason the highly effective rhododendron removal campaign run by an organisation (details supplied) for over three decades in Killarney National Park was ended by National Parks and Wildlife Service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14910/24]
Question· writtenPQ 677asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 April 2024
677. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason a park management plan has not been produced for Killarney National Park since 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14897/24]
Question· writtenPQ 676asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 April 2024
676. Deputy Seán Haughey asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will extend the remit of the Residential Tenancies Board in order that legal assistance can be given to users of the service to have judgements actually enforced; if he will introduce further changes to allow orders against incomes or social welfare benefits in the case of rent arrears owed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14895/24]
Question· writtenPQ 675asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 April 2024
675. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage what steps are being taken to control the sika deer population in Killarney National Park; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14886/24]
Question· writtenPQ 674asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 April 2024
674. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his Department is aware that overgrazing by two non-native invasive species, primarily sika deer and feral goats, is contributing to habitat loss as well as the spread of rhododendrum ponticum in Killarney National Park; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14885/24]
Question· writtenPQ 673asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 April 2024
673. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage what steps are being taken by the NPWS to prevent severe overgrazing in Killarney National Park by non-native invasive species such as sika deer and feral goats (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14883/24]
Question· writtenPQ 672asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 April 2024
672. Deputy Paul Kehoe asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated number of affordable housing schemes, in tabular form, by cost rental and affordable purchase, that are planned per council area in the next three years; the number of homes involved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14855/24]
Question· writtenPQ 671asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 April 2024
671. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if firefighters can be excluded from Circular LG(P) 06/09 ''Local Government Act 2001 (Section 161) Order 2004'' which prohibits local authority employees from contesting the forthcoming local elections; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14843/24]
Question· writtenPQ 670asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 April 2024
670. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason the second meeting of the sub-group set up to examining issues relating to the enhanced DCB scheme, which met on 11 January 2024, did not meet as planned on 21 February; the reason a meeting did not take place in March; if there has been further communication with homeowner representatives attending the sub-group since its first and only meeting; and if he will commit to convene a second meeting in a timely manner with meetings then scheduled on a monthly basis. [14842/24]
Question· writtenPQ 669asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 April 2024
669. Deputy Francis Noel Duffy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the prospect of implementing a rent transparency register in the private rental sector which he supported during the pre-legislative scrutiny of the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018 in 2019; if his Department has further investigated the GDPR implications of a rent transparency register; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14778/24]
Question· writtenPQ 668asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 April 2024
668. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Housing; Local Government and Heritage his reasoning for choosing the wording "housing growth target” in Amendment No. 640 to the Planning and Development Bill 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14765/24]
Question· writtenPQ 667asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 April 2024
667. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Housing; Local Government and Heritage if he will provide details of any meetings, correspondence, or communications between a developer (details supplied) in relation to the refused planning application;; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14764/24]
Question· writtenPQ 666asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 April 2024
666. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage how many bird of prey licences were issued for taking birds from the wild from 2014 to date; and the breakdown of taking birds from the wild licences for each of those years, by species, gender and by location, in tabular form. [14717/24]
Question· writtenPQ 665asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 April 2024
665. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he plans to extend the temporary development contribution waiver scheme beyond April 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14709/24]
Question· writtenPQ 664asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 April 2024
664. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if, in relation to his commitment to support a referendum enshrining public ownership of our water services in the Constitution, he will confirm when the Government will announce a date for the water referendum (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14665/24]
Question· writtenPQ 663asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 April 2024
663. Deputy Paul Kehoe asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage whether there is any consideration being given to waiving rates for charity shops given the increasing cost of doing business; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14661/24]
Question· writtenPQ 662asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 April 2024
662. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the derelict sites levies levied, collected, owed and cumulatively owed and the number of sites on their register on 31 December 2023 and at current date, by local authority, in tabular form. [14647/24]
Question· writtenPQ 661asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 April 2024
661. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to list, in tabular form, the community and communal facilities funding options available for new mixed tenure housing developments. [14642/24]
Question· writtenPQ 660asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 April 2024
660. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage how much funding was allocated by his Department in 2023 and 2024 to the communal facilities in housing projects; and how much funding was allocated to the same scheme by the National Lottery in 2023 and 2024.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14641/24]
Question· writtenPQ 659asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 April 2024
659. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if a scheme (details supplied) will be extended beyond 24 April 2024 to all permitted residential development; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14616/24]
Question· writtenPQ 658asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 April 2024
658. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage what progress has been made to have an election for a directly elected mayor for the city of Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14601/24]
Question· writtenPQ 657asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 April 2024
657. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage whether he has implemented second chance principles for those in recovery from addiction to access social housing. [14583/24]
Question· writtenPQ 656asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 April 2024
656. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage whether emergency accommodation can be refused on the basis of a previous eviction from social housing; whether there is a timeframe for this impact; and whether a local authority should take into account proven efforts by a person to resolve vulnerabilities that led to the eviction. [14581/24]
Question· writtenPQ 655asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 April 2024
655. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing; Local Government and Heritage whether he, any of his advisors or any of the officials working on the Planning and Development Bill 2023 revised written or oral submissions from an organisation (details supplied) or its representatives on the wording of Government Amendment No. 605 to the Planning and Development Bill 2023, as discussed at Select Committee on 21 February 2024. [14579/24]
Question· writtenPQ 654asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 April 2024
654. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing; Local Government and Heritage to list the dates on which he or any of his advisors has met with representatives of an organisation (details supplied) since May 2023; to detail the issues that were raised by the organisation; and to confirm whether issues related to Wicklow County Council’s refusal of a planning application by the organisation for 98 homes in Greystones, County Wicklow in May 2023 were discussed at any of these meetings. [14578/24]
Question· writtenPQ 653asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 April 2024
653. Deputy Patrick Costello asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if a referendum on a directly elected mayor for Dublin will take place on the same day as the 2024 local elections. [14575/24]
Question· writtenPQ 652asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 April 2024
652. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason an applicant under the enhanced defective concrete blocks grant scheme cannot be paid a stage payment and rental support payment at the same time under the scheme; and if he is aware that this causes real distress to families as this will delay the remediation works if building contractors are delayed their stage payments. [14530/24]
Question· writtenPQ 651asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 April 2024
651. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he received correspondences from a group (details supplied); and when the group can expect a substantive response to the issues raised with his office. [14394/24]
Question· writtenPQ 650asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 April 2024
650. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on his Department's audit of vacant and derelict homes across the State; the number of vacant and derelict homes brought back into active use in 2023, broken down by delivery stream, that is refurbishment grant, council CPO, and so on, in tabular form. [14373/24]
Question· writtenPQ 649asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 April 2024
649. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on his Department's audit of vacant and derelict homes across the State; the number of vacant and derelict homes brought back into active use in 2023, broken down by delivery stream, that is refurbishment grant, council CPO, and so on, in tabular form. [14373/24]
Question· writtenPQ 648asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 April 2024
648. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when information on the anticipated total cost to the Exchequer of PPP bundles 3 to 7 will be made public; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14370/24]
Question· writtenPQ 647asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 April 2024
647. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 708 and 709 of 20 March, the percentage of the unitary payment for social housing PPP bundles 1 and 2 that is indexed or understood to be allocated towards operational costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14369/24]
Question· writtenPQ 646asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 April 2024
646. Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 198 of 14 February 2024, the status of the steering group which will agree and guide the implementation of the Ministerial Action Plan to respond to capacity challenges in the planning sector; the timeline for the publication of the Action Plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14357/24]
Question· writtenPQ 645asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 April 2024
645. Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 197 of 14 February 2024, the status of the development of the new rural housing guidelines; the timeline for the publication of the guidelines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14356/24]
Question· writtenPQ 644asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 April 2024
644. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide details on how the interim fire safety defect scheme will work for individuals who have already paid for defects to be repaired; how refunds will be provided (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14352/24]
Question· writtenPQ 643asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 April 2024
643. Deputy Seán Haughey asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if an exempted development regulation for the change of use of a wide repository of buildings for the accommodation of international protection applicants has been signed into law; if he plans to review the planning laws in place for this purpose; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14344/24]
Question· writtenPQ 642asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 April 2024
642. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the evidence on which the decision was made to close voting at 8 pm on Whiddy Island for the recent referendum on 8 March 2024, considering the polling officer and polling clerk are residents on the island thus are not limited by bad weather or the ferry timetable, which could be altered as necessary to facilitate voting; to extend voting times for future polling days on Whiddy Island back to 10 pm in line with the rest of the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14309/24]
Question· writtenPQ 641asked
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 April 2024
641. Deputy Patricia Ryan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when current HAP limits for County Kildare are due to be reviewed, in light of continually rising rent levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14303/24]
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