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TDs ask ministers questions to get answers on the record, most of them in writing. Here is every one asked in the 34th Dáil, by the department it went to and the subject heading it was filed under. How questions work

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Claire Kerrane Written 29 Jul 2025 · to Housing
1472. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of local authority home loan applications submitted to Galway County Council in 2024 and to date in 2025, the number in each year, to date, processed, the number approved, the number ongoing and the length of time applications are taking for the mortgage to be drawn down, in tabular form. [41631/25]
Claire Kerrane Written 29 Jul 2025 · to Housing
1473. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of local authority home loan applications submitted to Offaly County Council in 2024 and to date in 2025, the number in each year, to date, processed, the number approved, the number ongoing and the length of time applications are taking for the mortgage to be drawn down, in tabular form. [41632/25]
Conor Sheehan Written 29 Jul 2025 · to Housing
1498. Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of social housing applications, by local authority that have used the section 179A exemption since 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41972/25]
John Brady Written 29 Jul 2025 · to Housing
1533. Deputy John Brady asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the breakdown of the amount of funding been granted to Wicklow County Council for works on the Bray to Greystones cliff walk, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42188/25]
John Brady Written 29 Jul 2025 · to Housing
1534. Deputy John Brady asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will consider changing the county boundary of Wicklow to include all of Bray in the county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42200/25]
John Brady Written 29 Jul 2025 · to Housing
1535. Deputy John Brady asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount of funding allocated to and spent by Wicklow County Council in the years 2020 to 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42202/25]
Richard Boyd Barrett Written 29 Jul 2025 · to Housing
1564. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to estimate the full year cost of the maintenance of local authority rented homes, broken down by local authority. [42731/25]
Ivana Bacik Written 29 Jul 2025 · to Housing
1567. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount of zoned land capable of residential development owned by local authorities nationwide; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42745/25]
Richard Boyd Barrett Written 29 Jul 2025 · to Housing
1589. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage whether his Department has made any funding available to local authorities to appoint vacancy officers to manage social housing voids; and if so, how much funding for each local authority. [42962/25]
Richard Boyd Barrett Written 29 Jul 2025 · to Housing
1590. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of vacancy officers employed by local authorities nationwide, broken down by local authority. [42963/25]
Eoin Ó Broin Written 29 Jul 2025 · to Housing
1591. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of social housing acquisitions that have been bought to date in 2025, with a breakdown by local authority and acquisition type tenant-in-situ, housing first, vacant homeless, and so no; and an average cost, by local authority. [42988/25]
James Geoghegan Written 29 Jul 2025 · to Housing
1593. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he can detail for each specific local authority the precise number of Part V units currently due for delivery, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43050/25]
James Geoghegan Written 29 Jul 2025 · to Housing
1594. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he can detail for each specific local authority the precise number and grade of staff within that local authority who have responsibility for engaging with developers in respect of Part V units to be delivered up in each local authority area, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43051/25]
Paul McAuliffe Written 29 Jul 2025 · to Housing
1603. Deputy Paul McAuliffe asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the outstanding debts for unpaid development levies, derelict sites, rent arrears and other in each local authority, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43140/25]
Louis O'Hara Written 29 Jul 2025 · to Housing
1614. Deputy Louis O'Hara asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a breakdown of the average duration spent on Galway County Council’s social housing waiting list in each of the years 2020 to 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43353/25]
Paul McAuliffe Written 29 Jul 2025 · to Housing
1664. Deputy Paul McAuliffe asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the housing waiting list numbers, average time on list, and percentage waiting over three years, nationally and per county, in tabular form. [43976/25]
Thomas Gould Written 29 Jul 2025 · to Housing
1675. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of tenant enforcement officers employed, by local authority, in tabular form. [44113/25]
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire Written 29 Jul 2025 · to Housing
1694. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for a breakdown of the total amount of local authority home loan applications by local authority and the number of successful applications, in tabular form. [44256/25]
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire Written 29 Jul 2025 · to Housing
1695. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for a breakdown of the total amounts of units retrofitted by local authority area for each of the past five years. [44257/25]
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire Written 29 Jul 2025 · to Housing
1696. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for a breakdown of the total spend on retrofitting of housing units by local authority, in tabular form. [44258/25]
Pa Daly Written 16 Jul 2025 · to Housing
140. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of social homes, by whether they are occupied, on the market or vacant, by local authority. [39948/25]
Pa Daly Written 16 Jul 2025 · to Housing
141. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of social homes, by local authority in each of the years 2010 to date in 2025. [39949/25]
Brendan Smith Written 16 Jul 2025 · to Housing
153. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when additional funding will be allocated to a local authority (details supplied); if he will ensure that this grant aid is allocated without further delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40134/25]
Eoin Ó Broin Written 15 Jul 2025 · to Housing
567. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if local authorities have been issued with the new housing needs demand assessment population and housing targets; and if so, if he will publish them with a breakdown for each local authority, in tabular from. [38966/25]
Conor Sheehan Written 15 Jul 2025 · to Housing
578. Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to confirm if the setting of rents for local authority housing is an executive or a reserved function of local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39022/25]