254. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on if the office of the planning regulator is holding back housing supply in certain local authorities; if so, to detail which local authorities; when, and the way in which, the office of the planning regulators is impacting their housing supply in this way. [56322/25]
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255. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the abridged estimates volume for Budget 2026 for Vote 34 including the provisional sub head and programme level allocations. [56323/25]
199. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for a list of all reports commissioned by his Department that have not yet been published, from 2020 to October 2025. [55680/25]
579. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a breakdown of the revised estimate subhead A3, local government housing, by Social Housing Investment Programme, land acquisition fund, development levy waiver and any other category for the 2025 allocation and the out turn in each of the years 2020 to 2024, in tabular form. [54742/25]
1. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the actions he intends to take in the coming months to halt the relentless rise in adult and child homelessness and to reduce the number of people presenting as homeless and accelerate the number of exits of persons currently in emergency accommodation. [54228/25]
5. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the action he is taking to tackle high rents in the private rental sector and the increasing unaffordability of rents in the Government-funded cost rental sector. [54230/25]
43. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans for the reform of the Multi-Units Development Act 2011, and related regulations of the property service management agents sector. [53749/25]
44. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he will publish legislation on the multi-unit development defects redress scheme. [53748/25]
46. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he intends to review the targets for and operation of the affordable purchase scheme. [53750/25]
66. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will meet with the Lough Neagh stakeholders group to discuss the current ecological crisis impacting on the lake, and by extension to the sections of the wider river basin management area that fall within the counties under his jurisdiction. [53751/25]
84. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on the proposed change to the exempted development regulations. [53747/25]
242. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total expenditure in 2024 on social and affordable housing funded through SHIP, CALF, CAS, AHF, CREL, AHB borrowing and LDA expenditure, in tabular form. [54052/25]
266. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a list of the legislation he intends to bring forward during the current Dáil session. [52965/25]
267. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to set out the annual expenditure on LIHAF; the total number of homes in each year activated via this measure; the total number of discounted homes delivered each year; and the average value of the discount, in tabular form. [52967/25]
268. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage whether any of the properties bought by the Housing Agency under the cost-rental tenant in situ scheme have been sold on to approved housing boards and have been converted to cost-rental tenancies. [52968/25]
270. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the prohibitions that exist preventing local authorities selling Part V, social housing acquisitions and other social homes purchased from the private market under the tenant purchase scheme; and to list each prohibition and provide a summary of its rationale. [53057/25]
311. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on the strategic review of the approved housing body sector. [53703/25]
312. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on when the scheduled five-year review of the Approved Housing Bodies Regulatory Authority will commence. [53704/25]
317. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on the County And City Management Association review of Section 10 funding; when the review was published; the main recommendations of the review; which of these have been accepted by his Department; and to publish a copy of the review on his Department website. [53808/25]
98. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if holders of refugee, subsidiary protection and programme refugee statuses who are applying to access social housing supports are required to show proof of income for the previous 12 months if some of that period was spent in their country of origin; if it is only required to show proof of income from the date they received that st…
291. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the rules governing cost rental eligibility for persons who are officially still on the title deeds of their family home, but have a legal separation or divorce agreement giving their former partner exclusive residential access to the family home. [50923/25]
381. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the projected cost and allocation for the temporary waiver of the development levy and water connection charges in 2026. [50042/25]
654. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average cost per unit of new build social housing delivered in 2024 by social housing investment programme, by type (details supplied), in tabular form. [48022/25]
1176. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans to increase resources for Tailte Éireann, specifically the hiring of further staff to ensure timely processing of applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45337/25]
1278. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the projected capital assistance scheme underspend for 2025. [46838/25]