1617. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an estimate of the average renovation cost for local authorities of vacant properties. [43568/25]
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1618. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an estimate of the average renovation cost for local authorities of derelict properties. [43569/25]
1619. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an estimate of the average conversion cost for local authorities to turn commercial properties into residential units. [43570/25]
1620. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an estimate of the number of vacant commercial properties that could be converted into residential units in the greater Dublin area, and in the cities of Galway, Cork and Limerick. [43571/25]
1622. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to estimate the cost of retrofitting all HAP properties to a minimum B2 standard. [43581/25]
1625. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a breakdown by local authority of the annual amount spent on local authority housing maintenance. [43594/25]
1626. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide detailed information on the annual amount spent on housing maintenance by approved housing bodies. [43595/25]
594. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if plans to prevent landlords from increasing rents to market rates between tenancies where the previous tenant has been evicted on a no fault eviction basis will apply to no fault evictions of pre-June 2022 tenants; who, for example, can be evicted for no reason in the last 6 months of their tenancy; and if he will make a statement…
595. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if plans to prevent landlords from increasing rents to market rates between tenancies where the previous tenant has been evicted on a no fault eviction basis will apply to no fault evictions of tenants with tenancies of indefinite duration for example where the rental property has been sold to a new landlord; and if he will make a s…
254. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the details for the past three years and the current year funding allocated or paid out for Departmental employees for legal study programmes including EU law in the past three years, detailing the course title, the course provider, the course fees, grade of employee supported, whether course was in person or online and name of the …
84. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is concerned about the scarcity of hares in the area of Roseberry, County Kildare, as highlighted in the attached December 2024 return (details supplied), which stated that "only two courses run–hare stock low this year". [37301/25]
21. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will ensure that the higher rates of homeless HAP are made available to people currently in rental accommodation so that they do not have to become homeless first to access the higher rate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35891/25]
34. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the action he will take to protect students from rent increases when the planned new legislation comes into force; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35887/25]
68. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the action he will take to ensure that existing tenants with pre-March 2026 tenancies cannot be evicted, either between now and March 2026, or post-March 2026, so that landlords can reset the rent to market rates for new tenants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35888/25]
98. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the State will directly build social housing projects that were to be built using PPPs, in light of the escalating costs associated with PPPs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35889/25]
107. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the action he will take to end child homelessness; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35890/25]
480. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if, under the March 2026 legislation, a tenancy in shared rental accommodation can be considered to have ended for all tenants if one tenant leaves; if the rent can then be reset to market rates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35886/25]
482. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the progress made on establishing a deposit protection scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35905/25]
540. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of times that dwellings have been deemed to be inactive and notified to his Department by a local authority in the past five years, in tabular form. [34192/25]
740. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the data his Department has access to in relation to notices of termination issued to social tenants housed by approved housing bodies. [28957/25]
391. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage whether the policy whereby someone cannot have their homeless HAP increased to the new increased level while they stay in existing accommodation (details supplied) will be reviewed. [28546/25]
381. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his attention has been drawn to a statement by an international election observation NGO (details supplied) that encountered difficulties observing the last general election calling for greater clarification of the rights of election observers; if he has any plans to address these concerns; the proposed timescale involved; and if…
536. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason no reports for the Irish Cup coursing meeting at Limerick racecourse on 21-23 February 2025 have been published on the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) website; if this three-day meeting was monitored by an NPWS ranger; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25145/25]
2. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is concerned that housing delivery is at risk because of an inability of new houses to be connected to the electricity grid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24653/25]
43. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will commit to ensuring no renter is disadvantaged by any changes to the rent pressure zones; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24607/25]