Questions

1420. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to his Department’s published procurement-related payments over €20,000 for 2023 and 2024, the methodology used to calculate and display the total figures now included in these reports, introduced first in the 2023 Q4 report (details supplied); if any exclusions, adjustments, data timing differences or rounding mechanisms …

1421. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide access to his Department’s procurement-related payment reports over €20,000 for years prior to 2020, noting that such records are not currently visible or accessible on the Department’s designated webpage for these reports (details supplied); if he will either provide direct links to these earlier records (if they are h…

1510. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount estate agents are paid in commission or fees for selling homes under affordable housing schemes funded by the State. [42052/25]

1563. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to consider introducing emergency legislation to expedite housing developments for the general population as has been done in response to accommodation needs under IPAS given the urgency of the ongoing housing crisis. [42668/25]

378. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 329 and 331 of 24 June 2025, to the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, which confirmed that responsibility for analysing collapsed or re-run procurement competitions rests with individual contracting authorities, if his Department has est…

379. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a list of all Public-Private Partnership projects under his remit, including project name, contract value, and start/end date since 2010; and to confirm whether any projects have been subject to cost overruns, renegotiation or early termination since 2010. [40418/25]

133. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 251 of 3 July 2025, if he has ever requested that the providers or delivery partners of home ownership support schemes supply anonymised, disaggregated application and approval data, specifically covering variables outlined in previous parliamentary questions; if not, if he will write to the re…

546. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the plans to extend the cessation of the turf cutting compensation scheme beyond the current timeline; the rationale for any decision taken; and if consideration will be given to those still impacted by the cessation of cutting on designated lands. [38661/25]

511. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of purchase orders processed by his Department in 2023 that were not included in the published reports of purchase orders over €20,000; the number of purchase orders excluded due to their value falling below the €20,000 threshold, and the total combined value of those purchase orders; and the number of purchase orders ex…

512. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his Department has ever conducted an analysis, audit, or review of local authority compliance with Circular Fin 07/2012 regarding the publication of purchase orders over €20,000; the last time such an analysis or audit took place; if all local authorities were found to be compliant at that time, and if not, to provide a list of …

251. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 111 of 25 June 2025 and 505 of 17 June 2025, the reason the reply issued did not provide the requested statistical breakdown of applications and approvals for each home ownership support scheme since their commencement, disaggregated by the variables (details supplied). [36774/25]

29. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the value of the equalisation fund each year since 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35549/25]

48. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he has any plans to change the funding model for local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35550/25]

466. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 515 and 516 of 25 February 2025 and No. 448 of 25 March 2025, all of which sought basic procurement-related data, including the number of public tenders that came in over, on, or under the awarded value, and the total procurement spend by his Department and its agencies in recent years, the r…

111. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 505 of 17 June 2025, to provide a statistical breakdown of applications and approvals since the commencement of each of the home ownership support schemes currently in operation (details supplied), in tabular form, and if the Minister will outline whether this data is used for internal monitori…

487. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his Department has a designated head of procurement; if each agency or public body under his Department’s remit also has a designated head of procurement; and if so, to list those entities, along with the name or grade of the person holding that role. [33644/25]

488. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of staff within his Department and its agencies who hold a formal procurement qualification or certification (for example, CIPS, NFQ Level 6 or higher in procurement, EU public procurement training), broken down by organisation, in tabular form. [33662/25]

489. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his Department and each agency or public body under its remit uses a formal contract management system or procurement tracking platform; to list the systems in use; and if they are centrally monitored or independently operated. [33680/25]

507. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update on the status of Galway County Council's applications for the extension of rural water schemes, with specific reference to the Castledaly/Peterswell water scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33858/25]

541. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the required consent submission by the Office of Public Works to his Department, in relation to progressing the Turoe Stone relocation project to the delivery stage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34216/25]

98. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on the €50 million in funding announced in 2022 for wastewater infrastructure in areas without existing public sewerage systems (unserviced or “unsewered” villages), such as Craughwell and Clarinbridge; the amount of this funding that has been spent to date; to provide a breakdown, by year, location, and project…

504. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of self-build mortgage loans issued annually for each of the past five years; and if such loans are tracked distinctly from other residential mortgage types in departmental or agency-level statistics. [32146/25]

505. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to list each of the current government schemes in operation that are intended to support home ownership or assist individuals to buy or build a home (including, but not limited to, the first home scheme, help to buy, local authority home loan, and the affordable purchase scheme); for each scheme, to specify what data fields are rec…

525. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his Department’s website employs analytics tools (details supplied) that track website traffic using UTM parameters (for example, utm_source); if so, whether any visits have been recorded with a specific parameter or similar identifiers indicating traffic from ChatGPT; and to provide the monthly number of such visits, if recorde…

371. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if framework-based procurement is included in his Department’s reporting of “tendered” procurement in its annual accounts; if so, to distinguish between contracts awarded via framework mini-competition, contracts awarded via direct drawdown from a framework without competition and frameworks run independently by his Department vers…