606. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will respond to calls from homeowners engaging with the defective concrete blocks grant scheme that engineering and other mandatory professional fees be excluded from the grant cap and covered separately; that storage and temporary accommodation supports be made available to all applicants during remediation, regardl…
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24. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to confirm that he will ensure that defective block homeowners at a location (details supplied) do not have to rebuild their homes on a dangerous flood plain; for an update on his Department's engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the OPW to find a solution and the outcome of this engagement. [53449/…
74. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will ensure that the new housing plan makes it possible for Donegal County Council to construct affordable housing projects across the county. [53700/25]
283. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage , further to Parliamentary Question No. 276 of 1 October 2024, if he has engaged with the Housing Agency to ensure that it is actually adhering to this guideline (details supplied); if he is aware that 86 affected homeowners in Donegal, who have had their Government-approved engineer’s recommendation for remediation, overr…
296. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he and his Department will sign off on a defective concrete block scheme to remediate council owned homes; and the reason this has taken so long, considering the impact on large numbers of families. [51090/25]
297. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he will ask a professional body (details supplied) to provide an updated report on the real building costs for families affected by defective concrete blocks, and to inform the review that he is conducting into the defective concrete blocks grant scheme. [51091/25]
387. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he intends to re-open the long-term leasing initiative, which was closed to new applications from 31 December 2021. [50266/25]
273. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the protections a building contractor has under the defective concrete block grant scheme, if the homeowner has not paid them for certified and completed works, and then changes their building contractor at a point in the process. [49358/25]
1274. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason homeowners that have appealed the remediation options provided to them under the defective concrete blocks grant scheme are waiting inordinate lengths of time for those appeals to be held; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46709/25]
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]
39. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will work with Donegal County Council to ensure that affordable housing schemes can be delivered across the county as soon as possible, in acknowledgment of the growing number of families in Donegal who cannot afford to purchase their own home. [35224/25]
50. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will ensure that the suggested cut-off point of March 2024 is not included in the amendments to the Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Act 2022, that will extend the increase in the cap and grant amounts per square-metre to those homeowners who are availing of this scheme. [35223/…
484. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is aware that there are many families who have availed of the remediation available under the defective block grant scheme and that have not been issued with a letter of assurance that issues as per section 21 of the Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Act 2022 for a long period o…
527. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason homeowners that have appealed the remediation options provided to them under the defective concrete blocks grant scheme are waiting inordinate lengths of time for those appeals to be held; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34009/25]
307. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will amend the Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Act 2022 to include the remediation of apartments impacted by defective concrete blocks. [33238/25]
492. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if a site has extensive growth of an invasive species, and the landowner deliberately and recklessly disrupts and spreads the contaminated soil onto neighbouring properties, public footpath road; other sites, then, what does it take for the National Parks and Wildlife Service to take action to investigate and enforce relev…
493. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the policies in place that local authorities must comply with and enforce when a site with a planning application has significant non-native invasive species growth, specifically Japanese knotweed; the responsibilities of the planning authority for planning applications for such sites; the person or body responsible for en…
494. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if a site has extensive growth of invasive species, the conditions or stipulations that must be applied to the granting of permission prior to commencement of construction such as, should a knotweed management plan be mandated prior to construction especially when an expert report submission advocates for one. [31812/25]
800. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will amend the Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Act 2022 to ensure that homeowners who are willing to reduce the size of their homes for the rebuild are not financially penalised for doing so and are paid an amount that reflects the square meterage of their existing home. [2957…
820. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his response to the motion recently passed by Donegal County Council (details supplied). [29761/25]
388. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is aware that homeowners who cannot complete the remediation of their homes under the enhanced defective blocks grant scheme, within the required timeframe, on genuine and certifiable medical grounds, must reapply to the scheme; and how he proposes to resolve this issue. [28479/25]
389. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is considering amending the turnkey purchase of housing developments for social housing to allow for stage payments to the building developers. [28494/25]
234. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the initiatives that will protect our maritime cultural heritage, as committed to in the Programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27930/25]
103. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason the victims of the pyrite in concrete products scandal in the east of Ireland received 100% redress under the pyrite remediation scheme while the victims of the pyrite and pyrrhotite (internal sulphate attack) in concrete products scandal have been denied genuine 100% redress in the west of Ireland. [24440/25]
1146. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he will release the necessary funding to local authorities in Donegal and other affected counties to remediate their housing stock that are the homes of hundreds of families affected by defective concrete blocks. [18529/25]