650. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks (Amendment) Act 2025 will be commenced so that the affected homeowners can avail of the changes to the original legislation. [6048/26]
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672. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he will request an organisation (details supplied) to draft a follow up report on construction costs for the defective concrete blocks grant scheme, considering that the last one was almost two years ago. [6420/26]
171. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason victims of the defective concrete product scandals are treated so differently by the remediation/redress schemes available to homeowners in the east and west coasts of Ireland; and his plans to change this. [3635/26]
242. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is aware that there are still no plans to deliver affordable housing projects in County Donegal; and the way in which his Department can work with Donegal County Council to address this serious failure. [3634/26]
669. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when homeowners who have spent money since March 2024 under the defective concrete block grant scheme will be reimbursed up to the new maximum cap, following the passing of recent legislation. [4081/26]
1412. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on the plans of the NPWS to invest in the amenities at Glenveagh National Park in the short-term and medium-term. [75030/25]
519. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his attention has been drawn to a number of instances across County Donegal in which landowners have come into conflict with their neighbouring landowners arising from discrepancies between their original folio Land Registry maps and the maps that have emerged from the digitisation of the mapping system by the Land Regi…
309. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will consider a waiver on commercial rates, or a portion of commercial rates or taxes, for the owners of commercial properties with defective concrete blocks who have no government scheme available to them to remediate their properties and have to constantly spend money on necessary maintenance. [68537/25]
105. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he will release the funds to allow Donegal County Council to remediate the huge amount of homes in their housing stock affected by defective concrete blocks. [65160/25]
122. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason the victims of defective concrete products scandals in Donegal, Mayo, Sligo, Clare, and Limerick do not receive 100% redress as is the case with the pyrite remediation scheme, available to the victims of defective concrete products scandals in Dublin and Leinster. [65159/25]
509. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason his Department has not sanctioned the purchase of 17 homes in Milford, County Donegal by an approved housing body to house families on the local social housing list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [65206/25]
1046. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is aware of concerns amongst homeowners that have received emails from the Housing Agency, confirming that a third party chartered engineering consultancy services provider (details supplied) which was engaged by the Housing Agency, experienced a cyber incident affecting its IT systems; if he is aware the technical …
1048. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage following his recent assertion in a motion passed by Dáil Éireann (details supplied), if he is aware that a submission from the DCB Stakeholder Forum to the NSAI's public consultation on the review of I.S. 465 directly contradicts this assertion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58754/25]
454. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he plans to review the 20 year claw back requirement for owners of rental properties that avail of remediation under the defective concrete blocks grant scheme. [56505/25]
459. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans to extend the eligibility to avail of the defective concrete blocks grant scheme to homeowners who purchased their primary home in late 2020 and past the current cut-off point of January 2020. [56568/25]
476. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of the 60 positions for the National Parks and Wildlife Service, announced by the previous Minister on 4 May 2022 for the Strategic Action Plan, that have been filled. [57071/25]
477. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of staff currently working in the National Market Surveillance Office. [57072/25]
478. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of staff are currently working for the National Building Control Office. [57073/25]
479. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of construction product types the NMSO and NBCO are responsible for. [57074/25]
480. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of the staff working for the NMSO and the NBCO who work for both offices, that is, the number of staff simultaneously working for both offices. [57075/25]
481. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage given that the NMSO was facing a national emergency according to two newspaper articles (details supplied) if the NMSO is now satisfied that they have sufficient staff to carry out their duties properly in the national office. [57076/25]
482. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the NMSO is satisfied that their staff in local authorities are competent to carry out MSO activities with regard to concrete construction products. [57077/25]
483. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he and the NMSO is satisfied that the NMSO will prevent any more new builds from having defective concrete going forward. [57078/25]
493. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will ensure that his relevant Department officials participate in the Multi- Stakeholder Working Group including representative groups (details supplied) established to address the range of problems affecting victims of the defective concrete block crisis, given the need to restore a normal and functioning housing ma…
258. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 283 of 25 September 2025, in which he stated that the Housing Agency has confirmed to his Department that the presence of pyrrhotite is taken into consideration in their analysis, if he will confirm whether transitional applicants, those who applied under the original defective concret…