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Cathal Crowe Written 15 Jul 2025 · to Housing
576. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if there are plans to review planning laws and regulations regarding land fronting on to national roads where farming families are unable to secure permission to build on family farmland or other available sites; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38997/25]
Rose Conway-Walsh Written 15 Jul 2025 · to Housing
577. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to outline the appropriate procedure for purchasing lands which are unregistered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39003/25]
Conor Sheehan Written 15 Jul 2025 · to Housing
578. Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to confirm if the setting of rents for local authority housing is an executive or a reserved function of local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39022/25]
Barry Ward Written 15 Jul 2025 · to Housing
579. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his attention has been drawn to the condition of properties owned by Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council (details supplied); the actions he will take to engage with the local authority to ensure these properties are brought up to standard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39084/25]
Alan Kelly Written 15 Jul 2025 · to Housing
580. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of WTE ecologists, wildlife inspectors and conservation rangers that were recruited by his Department in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [39100/25]
Barry Ward Written 15 Jul 2025 · to Housing
581. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will confirm that no local authority will be disadvantaged in terms of the quantum of central Government funding it receives on the basis of the rate it finalises for Local Property Tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39138/25]
Jennifer Whitmore Written 15 Jul 2025 · to Housing
582. Deputy Jennifer Whitmore asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the position regarding his Department's drafting of a code of conduct for interacting with basking sharks under the Wildlife Act 1976; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39150/25]
Cormac Devlin Written 15 Jul 2025 · to Housing
583. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the position regarding the residential tenancies (right to first refusal) Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39196/25]
Roderic O'Gorman Written 15 Jul 2025 · to Housing
584. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the areas in Dublin where Dublin Fire Brigade is adequately resourced to rapidly process the fire safety applications from new early learning and care services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39210/25]
Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh Written 15 Jul 2025 · to Housing
585. Deputy Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if she has plans to put together a successor to the Youth Homelessness Strategy that expires in 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39306/25]
Alan Kelly Written 15 Jul 2025 · to Housing
586. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to outline the allocation he will provide in total to Tipperary County Council for the year 2025; and to provide a breakdown of the areas under which funding has been provided, in tabular form. [39314/25]
Johnny Guirke Written 15 Jul 2025 · to Housing
587. Deputy Johnny Guirke asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of social and affordable housing units planned for construction in Navan, County Meath, in 2025 and 2026; the current status of each project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39327/25]
Roderic O'Gorman Written 15 Jul 2025 · to Housing
588. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his officials have been made aware of alarming practices on the part of residential housing developers (details supplied); if he will outline the non-judicial remedies homeowners may seek in such cases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39332/25]
Aidan Farrelly Written 15 Jul 2025 · to Housing
589. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide a schedule of housing projects sanctioned and or funded in full and or in part to include number of units, by type, that have been paused and or rejected due to deviations from design, specification and or cost expectations did not represent value for money in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025. [39345/25]
Rory Hearne Written 15 Jul 2025 · to Housing
590. Deputy Rory Hearne asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the revised draft Shannon River Bye-laws, when he expects the results of the departmental and legal review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39378/25]
Rory Hearne Written 15 Jul 2025 · to Housing
591. Deputy Rory Hearne asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when his Department will publish the revised draft Shannon River bye-laws; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39379/25]
Willie O'Dea Written 15 Jul 2025 · to Housing
592. Deputy Willie O'Dea asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if it has been brought to his attention that pyrite has been found in some social housing; and the measures he intends to take to assist local authorities to deal with the problem. [39391/25]
Willie O'Dea Written 15 Jul 2025 · to Housing
593. Deputy Willie O'Dea asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is aware of how slow the pyrite redress scheme process is; and if this process will be sped up. [39392/25]
Paul Murphy Written 15 Jul 2025 · to Housing
594. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if plans to prevent landlords from increasing rents to market rates between tenancies where the previous tenant has been evicted on a no fault eviction basis will apply to no fault evictions of pre-June 2022 tenants; who, for example, can be evicted for no reason in the last 6 months of their tenancy; and if he will make a statement…
Paul Murphy Written 15 Jul 2025 · to Housing
595. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if plans to prevent landlords from increasing rents to market rates between tenancies where the previous tenant has been evicted on a no fault eviction basis will apply to no fault evictions of tenants with tenancies of indefinite duration for example where the rental property has been sold to a new landlord; and if he will make a s…
Séamus McGrath Written 15 Jul 2025 · to Housing
596. Deputy Séamus McGrath asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will consider transferring the derelict sites levy for collection by Revenue in the same way the residential zoned land tax is collected by Revenue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39015/25]
Eoin Ó Broin Written 15 Jul 2025 · to Housing
597. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the breakdown of the affordable purchase and cost rental homes delivered in 2024 by the delivery streams (details supplied); and the average delivery cost per unit, for each of these delivery streams. [39445/25]
Niall Collins Written 15 Jul 2025 · to Housing
598. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on the actions he has taken, and proposes to take, regarding the defective concrete block scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39489/25]
Thomas Gould Written 15 Jul 2025 · to Housing
599. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the funding allocated under the CAS programme to AHBs in 2025. [39509/25]
Eoin Ó Broin Written 15 Jul 2025 · to Housing
600. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a list of all assessments and analyses undertaken by his officials in the preparation of the Planning Design Standards for Apartments, Guidelines for Planning Authorities, 2025, including analysis of the cost reductions per unit of accommodation arising from the revised standards; and to publish these assessments and ana…