Questions

456. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage whether he is considering the introduction of exempted development provisions for detached cabins or modular units already constructed within the curtilage of an owner occupied dwelling house for use as student accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48807/26]

457. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage whether he is examining the introduction of exempted development provisions for detached cabins or modular units within the curtilage of an owner occupied dwelling house for use as student accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48808/26]

458. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the updated Wind Energy Guidelines will be published.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48850/26]

459. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when Ireland's planning framework for wind energy development will be brought fully into alignment with current European Union environmental obligations and jurisprudence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48851/26]

460. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the plans within the new guidelines for enhanced protections for peatlands, blanket bogs and other environmentally sensitive habitats; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48852/26]

461. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the plans for the introduction of comprehensive cumulative impact assessment requirements for large-scale wind energy developments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48853/26]

462. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage whether his Department has issued any national guidance or minimum standards regarding reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities who are unable to access the Choice Based Lettings systems; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48925/26]

463. Deputy Ryan O'Meara asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the funding that is available to Tipperary County Council for Traveller-specific accommodation; the funding drawn down by Tipperary County Council for Traveller-specific accommodation for the past five years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48931/26]

464. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an itemised breakdown of the €260 million allocated to local authorities for social housing maintenance funding. [48934/26]

465. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of active RAS tenancies currently in operation and the full year cost of those tenancies to the exchequer, by private RAS and AHB RAS. [48961/26]

466. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on a review of eligibility criteria and the identification of priority areas for grant aid schemes administered by local authorities to upgrade, repair or replace domestic wastewater treatment systems/septic tank systems; when it is likely that these changes will come into effect; and if he will make a statement …

467. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide a clear clarification of the tenant-in-situ policy concerning a family on a housing waiting list (HWL) in one area but who are in rented accommodation in an adjacent area, and are threatened with homelessness, if it should be the local authority in which the family lives or the local authority in which th…

468. Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to review matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); if the issues raised will be addressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49034/26]

469. Deputy Catherine Callaghan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his Department will provide funding for a georadar study of the heritage site at Brownshill Dolmen, County Carlow, similar to the survey completed at Newgrange passage tomb in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49071/26]

470. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 1055 of 9 June 2026, whether this Parliamentary Question may be taken as a formal request for those Excel versions (details supplied); if not, the reason; the email address or other mechanism through which such a formal request should be submitted; whether the assessment of Open Data publicatio…

471. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 201 of 19 May 2026, and further to the statement that the relevant financial reports are published on his Department's website, whether he will provide the Local Authority Regional Homelessness Financial Reports underpinning those figures, including the expenditure category breakdown underlying…

472. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Questions No. 201 of 19 May 2026 and 1032 of 9 June 2026, whether any of the regional expenditure figures for homeless services provided in the reply remain subject to change as a result of his Department's ongoing review of the 2025 financial reports; and, if so, the reason those figures were released prio…

473. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on whether that in cases in which a person is on the housing list in one local authority area, but in rented accommodation in an adjacent area, and is threatened with homelessness, that there should be a clear policy determining which local authority is responsible for administering tenant-in-situ and other homele…

474. Deputy Eoin Hayes asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total cost of engagement with a company (details supplied) in each of the years 2020 to 2025, across his Department, by project, year and value; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49097/26]

475. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to state the total number of funding requests for social housing acquisitions including tenant-in-situ acquisitions refused in 2024 and 2025 with a breakdown by local authority, acquisition scheme and reason for refusal. [49160/26]

476. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for the most up to date basic unit cost guidelines for social housing construction and acquisition with the relevant breakdowns for each local authority area. [49161/26]

477. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide the average cost of delivery social housing in 2025 via SHIP construction, SHIP turnkey, CALF construction (with CALF cost and total cost), CALF turnkey (with CALF cost and total cost) CAS turnkey, CAS construction, CAS turnkey, and Part V broken down for each local authority area, in tabular form. [49162/26]

478. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to state the number of requests for increased SHIP, CALF and CAS funding requests in 2025, where construction costs changed after initial cost appraisal, with a breakdown by local authority Area; the number approved and the number rejected, and an average cost of increase per scheme approved and rejected for each local authority Ar…

479. Deputy Seán Kyne asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason Part V housing tenants are precluded from purchasing the houses they are renting but could have the option to do so in 100% council estates; whether he acknowledges the inequity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49191/26]

480. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 572 of 16 June 2026, the plans to formally recognise estates with known pyrite issues; and if these locations have been set aside for an extended period of time. [49200/26]