Questions

1588. Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage in the context of the private rental sector reforms, if in respect of those landlords with four properties or less, who had intended their properties to be part of a pension arrangement, if said landlords are obliged to sell the properties with the sitting tenants still in place; if he agrees that there is a risk of sitting te…

1706. Deputy Rory Hearne asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will launch and oversee an audit of damp in social housing and in accommodation leased by the State or paid for through rent allowance or HAP; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44294/25]

1720. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated costs of establishing a monitoring body which will conduct regular inspections of private rental units to ensure compliance with local and national standards; and further to the costs of establishing this body, the potential costs of running it for one year. [44347/25]

1725. Deputy Rory Hearne asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage in the context of Housing For All, including a target for rented accommodation to be inspected every four years, the number of properties that were inspected in 2023 and 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44378/25]

1726. Deputy Rory Hearne asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of private rented accommodation inspections that were carried out by all local authorities in each month of 2025 to date; the number of inspections in which further enforcement action was taken in all local authorities, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44379/25]

1729. Deputy Rory Hearne asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will launch and oversee an audit of mould in social housing and in accommodation leased by the State or paid for through rent allowance or HAP, in the context of widespread issues of mould in local authority and associated housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44382/25]

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…

602. Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans to introduce regulations to provide for a deposit retention scheme under section 61 of the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 2015; the timeline for same; the measures being taken to strengthen tenants’ rights in respect of deposits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39659/25]

87. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total amount of rent arrears (rent owed by housing tenants) in each local authority across the country, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37986/25]

94. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage whether he will legislate to ensure that there is an obligation on landlords and letting agents to inform tenants of any overpayments they may have made. [38047/25]

141. Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if, in the context of the reform of the private rental sector, he accepts that an unintended consequence of changes could be the departure of landlords who have four properties or fewer from the sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36464/25]

25. Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on his engagement with the Department of Finance on the tax treatment of Land Development Agency cost rental activity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35636/25]

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]

66. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on the increasing unaffordability of cost rental tenancies. [35825/25]

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]

73. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he will publish a national planning statement on short-term letting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35619/25]

437. Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will immediately commence section 31 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009, in order to restore rent-setting for local authority housing to a reserved function of elected councillors, as originally intended under the 2009 Act; the reason, in the absence of commencement, each local authority chief executive retai…

439. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when setting the weekly rent for social housing, the incomes sources (wages, gross or net, private pension, maintenance payments, social welfare payments, children’s allowance, carer’s support grants, fuel allowance, living alone allowance, and so on) that the AHBs and the councils are permitted to take into account when calcu…

462. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to clarify several queries in regard to rent pressure zones (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35506/25]

478. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to examine concerns in respect of persons in County Kerry (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35752/25]

479. Deputy John Paul O'Shea asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he intends to review the current tenant purchase scheme to allow council-owned housing secured under the Part V agreements and or AHB properties to be sold as part of any future tenant purchase scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35760/25]

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]

492. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will address a query (details supplied) relating to RPZs. [36076/25]

497. Deputy Shay Brennan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will respond to concerns on the new rent pressure zone rules (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36179/25]