585. Deputy Naoise Ó Cearúil asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will publish any impact assessments carried out before Kildare County Council applied local property tax variation factors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [72086/25]
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586. Deputy Naoise Ó Cearúil asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the way in which the local property tax equalisation mechanism impacts Kildare County Council's receipts, with particular reference to north Kildare; if he will consider publishing disaggregated data on an annual basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [72087/25]
587. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the derelict sites levy, levied, collected, owed and cumulatively owed; the number of sites on the register as of 31 December 2024 and at the current date, by local authority, in tabular form. [72138/25]
588. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the date for return of collection data for 2025 of the derelict sites levy. [72139/25]
589. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the latest data on the amounts levied, collected, owed and cumulatively owed; the number of sites on each register for the vacant sites levy and the residential zoned land tax, by local authority, in tabular form. [72140/25]
590. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of affordable homes delivered in Cork in 2025. [72142/25]
591. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of cost rental homes delivered, by county, in 2025. [72143/25]
592. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the timeline for delivery of the Northwest Quarter Regeneration, by phases, in Cork. [72144/25]
593. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the overall funding provided to the NWQR, to date in 2025. [72145/25]
594. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the overall percentage of social housing delivered in 2025 under universal design principles. [72147/25]
595. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage whether he will publish figures on the numbers of people on social housing lists longer than seven, eight, nine and 10 years and so on, respectively, by local authority administrative area based on SSHA figures provided by local authorities. [72149/25]
596. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the allocation for 2026 social housing acquisition programme. [72150/25]
597. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of tenant-in-situ sales approved in Cork city and county respectively to date in 2025. [72151/25]
598. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the funding provided by local authority for the provision of homeless services to date in 2025. [72152/25]
599. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if there are any financial supports available to a person seeking to buy a large derelict building in a town and develop apartments, to provide a number of apartments as private rented accommodation in the town; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [72183/25]
600. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the progress made over the past 12 months on each of his Department’s Programme for Government commitments, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [72199/25]
601. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of funding requests his Department has received from Mayo County Council seeking funding approval to purchase additional fire appliances and or specialist equipment for Mayo Fire Services in 2024 and to-date in 2025; of the funding requests, the number that were approved in each of the years in question, in tabular …
602. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he will announce the polling day of the Galway west and Dublin central by-elections. [72224/25]
603. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage following a failure to reach an agreement in the WRC, if his Department will go to the Labour Court to resolve a dispute with trade unions representing workers in the Dublin Fire Brigade, in line with the relevant codes of practice for industrial relations disputes involving essential services. [72228/25]
604. Deputy Noel McCarthy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if there are instances whereby the Vacant Property Refurbishment Grant will be approved for an applicant who has sold their house, moved into a vacant property, and then applied for the grant for that property; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [72300/25]
605. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the date on which his Department last received an update from the Building Control Management System on the validation of Modern Methods of Construction data; the expected completion date for this validation; and the internal deadline his Department has set for publishing the first tranche of MMC statistics. [72306/25]
606. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the steps his Department has taken since 2022 to establish a residential-specific productivity baseline for use in housing policy formation, including any internal memoranda, assessment frameworks or technical guidance issued to inform national housing targets. [72307/25]
607. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage whether his Department has conducted any assessment of the budgetary or value-for-money risks arising from the absence of residential-specific productivity indicators in the construction sector; and the outcomes of any such assessment. [72308/25]
608. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the date on which his Department last requested the Central Statistics Office to examine residential construction productivity separately from other construction activity; and to provide details of any technical workstreams, consultations or data-sharing arrangements agreed since 2022. [72309/25]
609. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the dates on which the Housing Activation Office submitted reports to him since 1 January 2023 identifying infrastructure barriers to housing delivery; the number of barriers escalated; and the number that remain unresolved following those reports. [72310/25]