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251 records in IE in 2024
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 October 2024
446. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on group water schemes in County Mayo. [41435/24]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 October 2024
445. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the new resources he will make available to the DRHE in 2025 considering the relentless increase in numbers of people availing of emergency accommodation across the city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42965/24]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 October 2024
444. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans to implement the recommendations of the Housing Commission report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42964/24]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 October 2024
443. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will review the affordable housing scheme to ensure that these houses are actually affordable, regardless of location; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42963/24]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 October 2024
442. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will implement a review of how the HMD form is working across councils to ascertain whether it places too heavy a load on disabled and ill people (the very people it is supposed to help); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42962/24]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 October 2024
441. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if consideration could be given to the introduction of a grant that covers the safe removal and disposal of asbestos from houses in view that the cost of renovating properties with asbestos leads to these houses remaining derelict and or creates unsuitable living conditions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42960/24]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 October 2024
440. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for details on the vacant property refurbishment scheme, by county, in tabular form: the number of applications received; the number applications successful; if possible, the average value of applications per county; and if possible, the most common reason applications were unsuccessful. [42935/24]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 October 2024
439. Deputy Noel Grealish asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if Tailte Éireann can refuse to release details of a folio to a party when that party had an interest registered on that folio and an instrument changed the registered interest to another separate folio without the interested party’s knowledge; whether all parties to a folio be entitled to receive details of changes to that folio where it directly affects them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42925/24]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 October 2024
438. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he can provide for several areas (details supplied) a list of all the individual projects to which his Department has provided funding since 2020, under the urban regeneration and development fund, in tabular form. [42923/24]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 October 2024
437. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of WTE fire advisors and senior fire advisors employed by his Department in 2023 and to-date in 2024, in tabular form. [42895/24]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 October 2024
436. Deputy Aindrias Moynihan asked the Minister for Housing; Local Government and Heritage the current position regarding publication of the final management plan for an area (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42857/24]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 October 2024
435. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans to legislate for the Dublin Bay Bill 2021. [42821/24]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 October 2024
434. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to set out the tenant in situ scheme targets for each local authority for 2025, in tabular form. [42768/24]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 October 2024
433. Deputy Jim O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide the details of costings provided to the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform, in the context of the National Development Plan 2021-2030 review conducted earlier this year; and to provide a breakdown of each project and its projected cost in each of the years 2025 to 2030. [42720/24]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 October 2024
432. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Housing; Local Government and Heritage if he will provide on update on the new proposed River Shannon, Grand and Royal Canal and Barrow Navigation bye-laws; if Waterways Ireland has provided any update in relation to feed and charges; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42642/24]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 October 2024
431. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the fire services earmarked for development over the next five years in County Galway; the estimated funding associated with each planned development; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42639/24]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 October 2024
430. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will review the rules to allow an exemption for landlords in rent pressure zones that have been introduced to vary the 2% increase on the rents they charge where they have not increased the rent for at least two years prior to the zones being introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42598/24]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 October 2024
429. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the support available for Kildare’s Draft Traveller Accommodation Programme 2025-2029, particularly how it will address the accommodation needs of Travellers in the county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42584/24]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 October 2024
428. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he can provide details on the progress of Kildare County Council's serviced sites scheme, particularly the upcoming sale of serviced sites in Clogherinkoe; what measures are in place to ensure affordability for local buyers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42576/24]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 October 2024
427. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the progress being made with the long awaited regeneration of Saint Patrick's Park, Rathangan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42569/24]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 October 2024
426. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update on Project Tosaigh in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42568/24]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 October 2024
425. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans to improve the availability of affordable housing in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42567/24]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 October 2024
424. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if a substantive reply has issued to a constituent in Donegal to his email communication of 30 September 2024 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42447/24]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 October 2024
423. Deputy Paul Kehoe asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on the necessity for BA Communications for fire fighters to communicate with each other over radio in a fire emergency; when this essential equipment will be rolled out through Dublin Fire Brigade; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42423/24]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 October 2024
422. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the Portumna fire station; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43415/24]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 October 2024
421. Deputy Anne Rabbitte asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide details for all capital plans for the development of fire services in Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43423/24]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 October 2024
420. Deputy Matt Shanahan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide the definition and conceptualisation of balanced regional development currently used to interpret and deliver the Programme for Government. [42814/24]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 October 2024
236. Deputy Sean Fleming asked the Minister for Finance if the first-time buyer's grant received in respect of housing is subject to taxation; if so, what levels of taxation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42676/24]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 October 2024
149. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the steps being taken to address the housing needs of Defence Forces personnel stationed in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42557/24]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 October 2024
146. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the up-to-date position with the provision of military housing in County Kildare at the Curragh camp; if the report has been finalised; the conversations he or his Department have had with the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage or the local authority on this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42519/24]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 October 2024
88. Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage what is being done to ensure the provision of affordable housing in Cavan and Monaghan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42644/24]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 October 2024
87. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on the defective concrete block remediation scheme in Clare; if he has plans to expand eligibility for the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42932/24]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 October 2024
86. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if it is Government policy to sell off public land to private developers at minimal cost; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42878/24]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 October 2024
85. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the State properties in Dublin 8, 10 and 12 that have been identified by the Land Development Agency to have social, affordable and private residences built upon them, including social housing regenerative programmes; the schedule of works identified to date for each of those sites; the number of homes on each site; and the estimated build cost of these schemes. [42508/24]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 October 2024
84. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if action will be taken to increase the delivery of affordable purchase and cost rental housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42666/24]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 October 2024
82. Deputy David Stanton asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of vacant property refurbishment grant applications received to date by each local authority; the number processed and approved; and the most recent figures his Department has on the number of vacant properties per local authority, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42941/24]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 October 2024
81. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to set out any updated commencement schedule for the Planning and Development Act 2023, in tabular form. [42862/24]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 October 2024
80. Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of social housing units delivered by the local authorities in Galway city and county in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form; the targets in respect of each of those years for each local authority; the number of same that are new builds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42870/24]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 October 2024
79. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he has plans to stimulate the opportunity for people to right-size, where people wish to consider such options; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42936/24]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 October 2024
78. Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he has considered extending the remit of approved housing bodies to include a proportion of homes for affordable purchase; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42875/24]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 October 2024
77. Deputy Gino Kenny asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is aware that, in response to the Taoiseach’s recent comments attributing increased numbers of people in emergency accommodation to asylum seekers, an organisation (details supplied) has said homelessness problems have been in the making for over a decade, and suggesting that they are somehow a new phenomenon related to immigration is disingenuous and should be avoided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39157/24]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 October 2024
76. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he intends to introduce legislation to retrospectively apply the latest SCSI square meter costs to house recipients of the defective concrete block grant who have already received grant offers under the earlier and lower SCSI cost estimates. [42860/24]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 October 2024
75. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on the provision of affordable housing in Mayo; when the scheme will be extended to all areas in Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42868/24]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 October 2024
74. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the plans to ensure the retrofitting of all social housing stock by 2030; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42940/24]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 October 2024
73. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide the latest figures for drawdowns by local authority area for the vacant property refurbishment and vacancy grants. [42864/24]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 October 2024
72. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the extent to which he can identify, through the various local authorities, suitably developed sites on which builders can be contracted to provide extra homes in the shortest possible time and utilising variations of housing proposals to achieve these, including modular homes and conventional methods, to provide houses for those on local authority waiting lists and those who have so far failed to qualify for a mortgage or an affordable house; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42874/24]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 October 2024
71. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on the interim fire safety scheme for multi-unit developments with defects, including an update on both the pathfinder projects and the total number of applicants for the funding to date. [42863/24]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 October 2024
70. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage whether it is intended to change the terms and conditions of the vacant property refurbishment grant to extend the timeframe in which work has to be completed, taking into account the shortage of registered contractors available for such work and the knock-on delay caused by the Covid pandemic to building works in general; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42858/24]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 October 2024
69. Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 80 of 19 September 2024, the steps being taken to address the crisis in homelessness in Ireland, given that 14,486 people, including 4,419 children, were in need of emergency accommodation in August 2024; the steps planned to reduce the number of people in emergency accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42869/24]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 October 2024
68. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the Government will acknowledge the need for a 100% redress scheme for homeowners affected by defective concrete blocks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42867/24]