Questions

351. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 420 of 1 July 2025, if his Department intends to renew the current three-year funding arrangement for post offices which is set to end in December 2025, to detail his Department’s plans to support small and medium-sized post offices following the conclusion of this arrangement; and if he will make a…

352. Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport the safeguards that are in place to ensure that installers of private optical fibre infrastructure will remove legacy copper wire installations, cabling and hardware once the roll-out has occurred; the role ComReg will play in ensuring this work is completed and who is responsible for ensuring that all traces of legacy equipment are a…

353. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 329 and 331 of 24 June 2025, to the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, which confirmed that responsibility for analysing collapsed or re-run procurement competitions rests with individual contracting authorities, if his Department has estimate…

354. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport to provide a list of all Public-Private Partnership projects under his remit, including project name, contract value, and start/end date since 2010; and to confirm whether any projects have been subject to cost overruns, renegotiation or early termination since 2010. [40410/25]

355. Deputy Micheál Carrigy asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport if his Department, or any agency under its aegis, has procured services from a company (details supplied), including but not limited to internet connectivity, satellite communications, or associated technologies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40485/25]

356. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport if there have been any funding or grant requests with his Department or bodies under its aegis in the past 12 months for the operation of pop-up pools. [40566/25]

357. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport if his Department is aware of any pop-up pools which were funded through capital grants from his Department or Sport Ireland which are not currently in use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40567/25]

358. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport if there are plans to expand ice skating and hockey facilities in Dublin under the National Physical Activity Plan for Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40694/25]

359. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount of funding given by the Office of Public Works to each county under the built heritage investment scheme from 2015 to 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40613/25]

360. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount of funding given by the Office of Public Works to each county under the Structures at Risk Fund from 2015 to 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40614/25]

361. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if under the new rules introduced, and the section regarding the rights of landlords/ tenants, that from 1 March 2026 there can be no evictions for a period of six years with two exceptions only (details supplied); if his Department will confirm in all other situations any tenant in a home as of 1 March has no obligation to move…

362. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans to review the 20-year claw back for owners who seek to remediate their properties that are not their primary home, under the defective concrete block grant scheme. [40233/25]

363. Deputy Naoise Ó Muirí asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of a project in County Mayo (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40249/25]

364. Deputy Naoise Ó Muirí asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if projects in Castlebar (details supplied) have moved beyond the detailed project briefs and procurement strategies stage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40250/25]

365. Deputy Naoise Ó Muirí asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the timeline for the completion of a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40251/25]

366. Deputy Naoise Ó Muirí asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide details on how subprojects fit into the timeline of a main project in Castlebar (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40252/25]

367. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 598 of 8 April 2025, to provide a full update on the Cork Events Centre project; the status of the appointments of individuals to the project management delivery team; the key next stages, and estimated timelines; and the exact amount of public funding, from all sources, spent on the project to…

368. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the up-to-date position with a housing project (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40282/25]

369. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his Department is working on updating or rewriting the Wildlife Act 1976; if he will provide details of the stage this process is at; if there will be a public-consultation element to this process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40284/25]

370. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the current funding levels of the housing adaptation grant, the disabled persons grant and the improvements works in lieu schemes for 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025. [40287/25]

371. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the State’s biennial land audit, conducted via the LDA’s 'Report on Relevant Public Land', is being leveraged to deliver affordable housing and community infrastructure and the steps his department is taking to accelerate land transfer and repurposing. [40204/25]

372. Deputy Jen Cummins asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of social and affordable homes that are currently being delivered or at planning stage in Dublin south-central, and what the expected completion dates are. [40317/25]

373. Deputy Jen Cummins asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of people homeless in Dublin south central, in tabular form. [40318/25]

374. Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if an individual can contact the land registry office directly to request the deeds of their house; to outline this process; if this can be done if the land transfer application is still being processed; to outline if this process can be expedited in the event that they are selling their house; and if he will make a statement on the m…

375. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he has received a letter from a person (details supplied); if he will issue a response; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40332/25]