723. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage whether all county councils have been instructed to recruit overseas as well as in the Irish market to fill vacancies, including posts in the EU; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23609/25]
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724. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage f he can provide any monitoring function or statistics or reports on the time it takes to get pre-planning meetings at the various county councils; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23610/25]
734. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of planners working in county councils nationwide; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23622/25]
735. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of hold appropriate professional planning qualifications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23623/25]
743. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on his engagement with Cork City Council regarding 33 families in Cork city whose homes are sale agreed under the tenant-in-situ scheme but for whom Cork City Council do not have funds to complete the purchase of their homes. [23788/25]
757. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to immediately request local authorities to refrain from increasing rents (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23979/25]
762. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for details of the number of architects currently employed by local authorities, broken down by local authority; the number of vacant local authority architect posts there are, broken down by local authority; and for details of any plans to increase the number employed. [23989/25]
763. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for details of the qualifications required to take up a post as a local authority medical adjudicator. [23990/25]
1203. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the breakdown of the total number of local authority home loan applications, by local authority; and the number of successful applications, in tabular form. [19247/25]
1235. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No.15 of 20 March 2025, if his Department has contacted Dublin City Council and Fingal County Council to request updates on the current role and activities of their respective accessibility officers; if so, whether the findings can be shared; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19682…
1302. Deputy Brian Brennan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he intends to instruct local authorities to reduce the interest rates for their long standing variable interest mortgage holders, as the last reduction was October 2023 and there have been multiple interest rate cuts by the ECB since this time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20233/25]
262. Deputy Mark Wall asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of vacant homes officers employed in each local authority; the number of posts that are vacant; the cost of employing each officer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18152/25]
263. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount that is owed as of March 2025 to each local authority for expenditure on the provision of housing, by local authority, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18174/25]
280. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the timeline for finalising and publishing the revised local authority level social and affordable housing targets for the 2025 to 2030 period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18334/25]
153. Deputy Eoin Hayes asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the new revenue-raising measures under consideration for granting local authorities, in particular, for Dublin City Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17867/25]
154. Deputy Eoin Hayes asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the new debt-raising measures and financial instruments are under consideration for granting local authorities, in particular, for Dublin City Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17868/25]
605. Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the recently introduced regulations that have had the effect of disqualifying pensioners on a low income from seeking financial assistance by way of a grant from a local authority to replace a household boiler that is beyond economic repair will be reversed as the cost of an alternative system like air to water is not financi…
606. Deputy Joe Neville asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his Department could look to increase the local authority home loan in Kildare, given that the figure currently is maxed at €360,000 and the average cost of a house in Kildare is currently above that figure. [16732/25]
254. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide greater details of plans to set up a local government taskforce; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16508/25]
474. Deputy Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the refusal of transfers between county housing lists is a policy or law by the councils. [15297/25]
288. Deputy Pat Buckley asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is aware that the current wait time for an appointment with a Dublin City Council housing advisor is seven weeks; whether he believes this wait time is acceptable; and if he will outline steps he is taking to decrease these wait times. [14750/25]
289. Deputy Pat Buckley asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the staffing levels in the Housing and Community Department of Dublin City Council, in each of the past five years, in tabular form; whether he believes the current staffing level is sufficient; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14751/25]
453. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage how much has been collected by each of the 31 local authorities on levies on unused zoned land, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13663/25]
454. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage how much has been collected by each of the 31 local authorities on vacant site levies, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13664/25]
455. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage how much has been collected by each of the 31 local authorities on derelict site levies, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13665/25]