Questions

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…

1184. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his attention has been drawn to a currently unserviced wastewater treatment plant in Rooskagh Valley, Shanagarry, County Cork, for which local residents have been informed is no longer fit for purpose and is close to operational failure with the potential to trigger a serious public health and environmental incident; his plans t…

1185. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans for the restoration and preservation of a heritage site (details supplied); if funding or support will be allocated for conservation works to protect this important heritage site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18991/25]

1186. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the position regarding any initiatives proposed by his Department that seeks to protect the architectural heritage of Georgian Dublin and the so-called Georgian core; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18995/25]

1187. Deputy Jennifer Whitmore asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update on the purchase of lands at the Glen of the Downs in County Wicklow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19011/25]

1188. Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the plans in place to introduce a pyrite scheme for local authority-owned homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19014/25]

1189. Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage , further to Parliamentary Question No. 646 of 8 April, the reason the current outstanding strategic housing development application list waiting to be determined by An Bord Pleanála (ABP) is no longer available on the ABP website; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19022/25]

1190. Deputy John Paul O'Shea asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the Government's policy on rightsizing schemes; the number of schemes that have been made available in the years 2022-2025 per local authority area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19041/25]

1191. Deputy Eoin Hayes asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on the public and private financial resources required and available to support his Department’s plans to meet Ireland’s climate targets by 2030; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19100/25]

1192. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his attention has been drawn to the farm succession scheme promoted by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine; whether his Department has considered the impact that passing on farmland and properties to farmers' children has on access to housing schemes such as the housing adaptation grant; and if he will make a sta…

1193. Deputy John Brady asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide details of the number of deer that have been culled for each year between 2015 and 2025 for each county, and details for each species, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19152/25]

1194. Deputy John Brady asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide details of the number of wild goat that have been culled in each of the years between 2015 and 2025 in each county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19153/25]

1195. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the details of all services, grants, loans and payments available to individuals or households funded by his Department and agencies under his remit; the eligibility requirements and any conditionality for receiving the service, grant, loan or payment (details supplied); and the monetary value, or range of values, of the s…

1196. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage , further to Parliamentary Question No. 495 of 1 April 2025, when Meath County Council will have the requisite resources and expertise to carry out its statutory planning functions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19201/25]

1197. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage , further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 496 and 497 of 1 April, if he plans to publish an SAC management plan for the Boyne-Kells Blackwater SAC; if so, if concerned stakeholders will have the opportunity to make submissions on any such plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19202/25]

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]

1201. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the way in which he plans to safeguard crucial programmes like Housing First while several of such organisations are in crisis (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19220/25]

1202. Deputy Aisling Dempsey asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason a person (details supplied) does not qualify for a septic tank grant; the reason Meath is omitted from all septic tank grant schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19228/25]

1203. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the breakdown of the total number of local authority home loan applications, by local authority; and the number of successful applications, in tabular form. [19247/25]

1204. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the breakdown of the total number of units retrofitted, by local authority area for each of the past five years. [19248/25]