251. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the new housing first tender being run by the housing first office; and the impact on current supports to housing first tenants and the creation of new housing first tenancies arising for the failure to successfully complete the tender process to date. [22152/25]
262. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to confirm the funding to be made available to the Housing Activation Office; if media reports of a €1 billion fund over five years is correct; if so, if this funding will come from within the existing expenditure allocation; and if not, if it will be additional and require a further supplementary estimate for 2025. [22448/25]
278. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the rural, Gaeltacht and islands planning guidelines will be published. [22850/25]
292. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Justice regarding residents of IPAS accommodation employed in roles with companies who have some work outside of the area in which the accommodation is based, if there is a mechanism for such residents to access alternative accommodation while working in an alternative area in order to avoid losing their employment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21977/…
373. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Health to outline the rules for the dispensing of prescriptions to medical card holders, including the number of months that can be dispensed at a time; and to confirm the way in which pharmacies are paid to dispense prescriptions under the medical card scheme. [21978/25]
258. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to provide a breakdown of the carbon emissions associated with all official air travel in tonnes; the value of these emissions; the amounts paid to the Climate Action Fund by each Department, agency and body required to do so under the procedures for offsetting the emissions associated with official air travel for 2024, in tab…
282. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if the new climate action plan will include a commitment to provide additional supports for the retrofitting of approved housing body social housing. [19878/25]
915. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Education if her Department has assessed the impact to students of this year’s proposed changes in relation to grade inflation in Leaving Certificate 2025; if previous year’s results are to be amended; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19650/25]
1084. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media to provide a dated list of all correspondence between the European Commission and his Department on the issue of regulating and registering short-term lets, from 2020 to date [18980/25]
1178. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he has delegated responsibilities to his Ministers of State; and if so, the responsibilities he has delegated to each Minister of State. [18976/25]
1179. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a list of all land that had its residential zoning by way of ministerial order in each of the years since 2020, by local authority area and land volume. [18977/25]
1180. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total Exchequer expenditure on social housing acquisitions in 2024, by local authority area, acquisition schemes, that is, tenant-in-situ, the Housing First scheme, vacant acquisitions, and buy and renew; and number of units acquired under each scheme in each local authority area, in tabular form. [18978/25]
1181. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a dated list of all correspondence between the European Commission and his Department on the issue of regulating and registering short-term lets, from 2020 to date. [18979/25]
1182. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to confirm that he has received the Housing Agency's review of rent pressure zones, and to publish the report. [18981/25]
1183. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to clarify the commencement schedule for each of the chapters and sections of Part 9 of the Planning and Development Act 2024; and to clarify if a partial commencement of chapter 2 is envisaged earlier in 2025 under block A2, with remaining sections of chapter 2 Part 9 to follow, with the subsequent and later implementation of ele…
1198. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total amount of residentially zoned land in each local authority development plan, including a range of the number of residential homes that this land could yield in each local authority, in tabular form. [19205/25]
1199. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the analysis his Department has undertaken to assess the volumes of residential zoned land in the current city and county development plans; and the level of residential land deficits his Department estimates to exist across the State and in each local authority administrative area. [19206/25]
1200. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the methodology and data sources used by his officials for housing needs assessment of an average of 50,000 new homes a year to 2040 as set out in the revised national planning framework. [19207/25]
1222. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide the STAR allocations to each organisation that has been awarded equity payments under this scheme with a breakdown by scheme and amount of STAR awarded, in tabular form. [19402/25]
1244. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide the average cost incurred in retrofitting a standard three-bedroom local authority home. [19879/25]
1283. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of HAP payments allocated through the inter-authority movement of housing assistance payment scheme in each of the years from 2021 to date, by local authority, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20087/25]
1284. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of households added to the transfer list, by local authority in 2022, 2023, 2024 compared to the number of HAP tenancies created in the same years and local authorities, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20088/25]
1285. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of HAP tenancies that have ended after the first two year period, by local authority, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20089/25]
1288. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a list of all briefing documents provided to him by his Department officials since taking office; and the dates on which those briefing documents were submitted to him. [20101/25]
1289. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of applications received by his Department from Dublin City Council to funding and approval for inner city flat complex refurbishment, retrofit redevelopment in 2024 and to date in 2025; the estates covered in these applications, the dates the applications were received and the status of each of these applications. [201…