596. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the allocation for 2026 social housing acquisition programme. [72150/25]
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597. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of tenant-in-situ sales approved in Cork city and county respectively to date in 2025. [72151/25]
598. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the funding provided by local authority for the provision of homeless services to date in 2025. [72152/25]
599. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if there are any financial supports available to a person seeking to buy a large derelict building in a town and develop apartments, to provide a number of apartments as private rented accommodation in the town; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [72183/25]
600. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan 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. [72199/25]
601. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of funding requests his Department has received from Mayo County Council seeking funding approval to purchase additional fire appliances and or specialist equipment for Mayo Fire Services in 2024 and to-date in 2025; of the funding requests, the number that were approved in each of the years in question, in tabular …
602. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he will announce the polling day of the Galway west and Dublin central by-elections. [72224/25]
603. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage following a failure to reach an agreement in the WRC, if his Department will go to the Labour Court to resolve a dispute with trade unions representing workers in the Dublin Fire Brigade, in line with the relevant codes of practice for industrial relations disputes involving essential services. [72228/25]
604. Deputy Noel McCarthy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if there are instances whereby the Vacant Property Refurbishment Grant will be approved for an applicant who has sold their house, moved into a vacant property, and then applied for the grant for that property; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [72300/25]
605. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the date on which his Department last received an update from the Building Control Management System on the validation of Modern Methods of Construction data; the expected completion date for this validation; and the internal deadline his Department has set for publishing the first tranche of MMC statistics. [72306/25]
606. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the steps his Department has taken since 2022 to establish a residential-specific productivity baseline for use in housing policy formation, including any internal memoranda, assessment frameworks or technical guidance issued to inform national housing targets. [72307/25]
607. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage whether his Department has conducted any assessment of the budgetary or value-for-money risks arising from the absence of residential-specific productivity indicators in the construction sector; and the outcomes of any such assessment. [72308/25]
608. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the date on which his Department last requested the Central Statistics Office to examine residential construction productivity separately from other construction activity; and to provide details of any technical workstreams, consultations or data-sharing arrangements agreed since 2022. [72309/25]
609. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the dates on which the Housing Activation Office submitted reports to him since 1 January 2023 identifying infrastructure barriers to housing delivery; the number of barriers escalated; and the number that remain unresolved following those reports. [72310/25]
610. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the categories of infrastructure barriers escalated to him by the Housing Activation Office since 2023, including transport, utilities, water services, planning or procurement; and the corrective actions his Department has directed in each case. [72311/25]
611. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the timeline his Department has set for publishing a consolidated annual report of housing activation barriers, actions and progress; and whether this report will include local-authority-level detail. [72312/25]
612. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide details on the current grant for septic tank improvements; and if it is still necessary to have registered a septic tank in 2012 to be eligible for a grant. [72316/25]
613. Deputy Noel McCarthy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the instances in which an application would be considered for the development contribution waiver scheme after the application deadline; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [72329/25]
614. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the over-the-shop grant will be introduced; the amount of grant aid that will be paid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [72371/25]
615. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the criteria to qualify for the over-the-shop grant (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [72372/25]
616. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views regarding energy cloud; if he has considered including the use of surplus energy as part of the Government's social housing retrofit programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [72385/25]
617. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to clarify the change to the vacant property grant that is being considered regarding introducing a €650,000 cap on the value of the property for which a grant will be paid out on; and when will a decision on this be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [72429/25]
618. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if a specific analysis will be undertaken of the impact of a possible change to the Vacant Property Grant regarding introducing a €650,000 cap on the value of the property for which a grant will be paid out on in Dublin (city and county); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [72430/25]
619. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage whether, if he makes a change to the vacant property grant regarding introducing a €650,000 cap on the value of the property, when would this change apply from; and the protections that would be put in place for people who are currently in the process of buying a home over the cap and who were relying on the vacant property gra…
620. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the National Parks and Wildlife Service has contingency plans in place if the invasive demon shrimp (dikerogammarus haemobaphes) infiltrates Lough Corrib SAC; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [72497/25]