Questions

1367. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a list of AI pilot projects which have taken place in his Department within the past 12 months; the expenditure associated with those projects; and whether they are still ongoing, in tabular form. [74137/25]

1368. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage regarding competitions for executive engineer roles in local authorities, the position regarding career progression for engineers already employed in local authority roles with qualifications under the previous eligibility criteria who have relevant experience but who do not hold qualifications under the new criteria; and if he wi…

1369. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the actions his Department is taking to ensure students living in private accommodation do not face further rent increases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [74236/25]

1370. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the actions his Department is taking to ensure there are no rent increases for students living in private accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [74240/25]

1371. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is aware of ongoing difficulties experienced by elected members of local authorities, including Mullingar Kinnegad Municipal District of Westmeath County Council, in receiving timely responses from his Department to formal representations; if he has issued any guidance or protocols regarding engagement with local authorities…

1372. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the steps being taken to improve inter-departmental responsiveness to correspondence from local authorities and their elected members, particularly where issues relating to childcare provision, transport, healthcare and integration are concerned. [74252/25]

1373. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on the adequacy of current engagement between Government departments and local authorities and their elected members; whether his Department has received representations from local authorities regarding non-responses from other Departments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [74253/25]

1374. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage whether standards or service-level targets exist for his Department or bodies under the aegis of his Department, in responding to correspondence from members of local authorities; if compliance with such standards is monitored; the reasons for delays or failures to respond to correspondence from elected members; and the measures b…

1375. Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the timeline on when the boundary review into local electoral areas will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [74261/25]

1376. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 86 of 9 July 2025, the date he will provide a substantive response; if his Department will provide this Deputy with a copy of the memorandum of understanding that was provided to inform the Oireachtas Committee charged with development of the 1976 Act; the date his Department will make all …

1377. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will confirm unequivocally to this Deputy whether, the State is legally required and empowered to manage all wild birds, including urban gulls, as laid down in Article 9 of the EU Birds Directive and pertinent National legislation (primary and secondary); if he is the Minister responsible for the necessary and consequenti…

1378. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on whether the Elective Derogation Regulation (details supplied) must be restored with immediate effect, before the 2026 breeding season; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [74331/25]

1379. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No’s, 148,149,150,151,152 of 16 July 2025, if he will provide a complete copy of the Department/NPWS’s correspondence concerning gulls and public health and safety with the HSE in 2017, as cited in his reply; and if he will provide copies of any consistent/similar correspondence that his Depart…

1380. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No’s 148,149,150,151,152 of 16 July 2025, and his statement in his reply that he is satisfied that the NPWS carries out their functions in a balanced and measured manner in line with the legislative provisions for the protection of wild birds, if is satisfied that, since the withdrawal of the p…

1381. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage whether his Department or the National Parks and Wildlife Service has issued any public notices that it is perfectly legal under the Wildlife Acts 1976 and 2000 (Amended) to remove nests from occupied buildings provided they do not contain eggs or hatched chicks; if no such public notice has been issued, and as the Houses of th…

1382. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a summary of all wildlife licences granted in the period 2019 to 2025 in respect of herring gulls and removal of their nests and eggs; the licence date, location, the reason for which licences were sought, the approved control actions; and the specific legal grounds for the granting of the licences; and if he will ma…

1383. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans to increase the thresholds to qualify for social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [74354/25]

1384. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the minimum and average times that it has taken in 2025 from when a local authority home becomes vacant to when it is occupied by a new tenant, by each local authority, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [74356/25]

1385. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if it is planned to review the local election boundaries in advance of the 2029 Local Elections; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [74363/25]

1386. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the next Dail constituency boundary redraw will take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [74364/25]

1387. Deputy Peter 'Chap' Cleere asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the position regarding the wind energy guidelines being updated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [74376/25]

1388. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the office rental costs per annum for staff in his Department and for each agency or organisation under his remit, in each of the years between 2015 and 2025 inclusive, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [74452/25]

1389. Deputy Rory Hearne asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the Q3 affordable housing delivery figures will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [74468/25]

1390. Deputy Rory Hearne asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the value of the vacant property refurbishment grants that have been issued in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025 respectively, for the purpose of renovating a rental property; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [74469/25]

1391. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to re designate the Broadmeadow estuary at Corballis, Donabate an exclusion zone for shooting given this forms part of the Broadmeadow Way Greenway cycle and pedestrian route from Malahide to Newbridge park when this is completed in 2027; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [74470/25]