Questions

433. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his Department has reviewed the current criteria around the T-test (subsurface percolation test), which assesses subsoil permeability for an on-site wastewater treatment system (e.g., a septic tank or treatment plant) as part of the on-going review around rural planning guidelines (details supplied). [50901/26]

563. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the progress made over the past 12 months on each of his Department's Programme for Government commitments, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [71633/25]

61. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his Department is currently reviewing ways to reduce the duplication of planning applications needed to be attained to construct energy generating sites; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61063/25]

604. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of applications for the vacant homes refurbishment grant, by county in 2024 and to date in 2025; the number of new builds constructed, by county in 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63711/25]

1001. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if Sligo and Leitrim local authorities' storm damage claims in relation to storm Éowyn are paid; if not, when management can expect payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57799/25]

1014. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans to extend certain planning exemptions to convert vacant commercial properties into new homes (details supplied); if he will confirm his plans to extend or review the scheme before the end of 2025; and his views on whether the scheme has been a success and produced the potential to create 3,429 new homes throughout the…

1015. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the financial supports available from his Department to parents and guardians of children with autism who need to modify their house to provide their child with an adapted bedroom or sensory room; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58155/25]

1021. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason for the reduction of funding for smaller local authorities particularly the reduction of €1.3 million to Leitrim County Council in funding in 2025 under the Equalisation Fund (details supplied) . [58209/25]

586. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will consider engaging with management of local authorities to examine the extent of uncompleted housing estates with infrastructural deficits beyond the resources of the local authority and available bonds; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there are people living in unfinished housing estates with sewerage…

642. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to examine the implications of the new regulations (details supplied) to be introduced in March 2026 whereby smaller landlords with three or fewer tenancies can terminate a new rolling six-year tenancy on the grounds of intending to sell at the end of the 6-year period. [55468/25]

643. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is aware that small landlords in rural areas (like the North West) are leaving the market in anticipation of the new regulations, reducing the amount of available rental properties putting further pressure on an existing limited market; if he has engaged with stake holders including auctioneers and letting agents to discus…

290. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his Department will consider setting up a funding mechanism within his Department to deal with the challenge of unfinished housing estates, where the existing or exhausted cash or insurance bonds fall well short of the required funds to deal with structural, sewerage and water deficits (details supplied). [50912/25]

687. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 1138 of 8 September 2025, if a reply will issue specifically to the question, which was not answered in the reply and asked him to confirm that he has received a request from Leitrim County Council for funding to deal with historic structural issues around the unfinished housing estate (deta…

1138. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to confirm that he has received a request from Leitrim County Council for funding to deal with historic structural issues around the unfinished housing estate (details supplied); if he will confirm if his officials have decided on the request; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44995/25]

361. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if under the new rules introduced, and the section regarding the rights of landlords/ tenants, that from 1 March 2026 there can be no evictions for a period of six years with two exceptions only (details supplied); if his Department will confirm in all other situations any tenant in a home as of 1 March has no obligation to move…

241. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will be setting up an electoral commission to review the local electoral boundaries before the 2029 local elections; if this will be based on the most recent 2022 census or if the commission will await the results of the 2027 census; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38370/25]

530. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his Department will consider changes to the vacant property grant (croí conaithe grant) to allow houses built but not completed from the 31 December 2007 deadline under the current regulations to 31 December 2009 (details supplied). [32598/25]

378. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of cross-Border or shared Island initiatives currently being progressed by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31382/25]

379. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update on the Ulster Canal project; the number of phases of the project that have been completed to date; the total spend on each phase of the project to date; the total amount committed by Government for the next phase of the project; if negotiations with landowners have started in respect of future phases…

920. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of homes that have been bought in each county, by each local authority under the tenant-in-situ scheme since the year of commencement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11898/25]

103. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will consider extending the hedge cutting timeframe considering the recent storm damage and the requirement to deal with damaged roadside trees and hedgerow. [9842/25]

440. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his Department will reconsider the recent directive to local authorities around housing aid grants for the elderly whereby funding will not be provided for the replacement of an old oil boiler (heating system) with a new model boiler; if funding will only be provided for second-hand boilers; and if he will accept that this pr…