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Ken O'Flynn Written 18 Nov 2025 · to Housing
540. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average cost per unit for social housing, affordable purchase, and cost-rental homes delivered in 2023 and 2024; the projected average unit cost under Delivering Homes, Building Communities for each year to 2030; and the measures in place to control unit-level cost inflation. [64401/25]
Ken O'Flynn Written 18 Nov 2025 · to Housing
541. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the way in which the additional €6 billion referenced in Delivering Homes, Building Communities will be allocated across construction, land acquisition, infrastructure, subsidies, and administrative costs; and the timeframe for expenditure in each category. [64402/25]
Ken O'Flynn Written 18 Nov 2025 · to Housing
542. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the controls in place to ensure value for money in approved housing bodies-delivered housing projects funded under Delivering Homes, Building Communities; the audit mechanisms applied; and the criteria used to approve per-unit funding for approved housing bodies schemes. [64403/25]
Ken O'Flynn Written 18 Nov 2025 · to Housing
543. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the expected impact of construction cost inflation on the delivery targets set out in Delivering Homes, Building Communities; the inflation assumptions used in the plan; and the contingency measures in place to prevent cost overruns. [64404/25]
Ken O'Flynn Written 18 Nov 2025 · to Housing
544. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average acquisition cost of land used for housing delivery in the past two years; the expected land costs for new sites under Delivering Homes, Building Communities; and the steps being taken to reduce land acquisition pressures, including land-value capture and State-owned site activation. [64405/25]
Ken O'Flynn Written 18 Nov 2025 · to Housing
545. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if a formal value-for-money review has been completed for the Housing for All programme; if so, the findings of the review; and the way in which these findings informed the design of Delivering Homes, Building Communities. [64406/25]
Ken O'Flynn Written 18 Nov 2025 · to Housing
546. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total projected expenditure on developer subsidies for affordable homes and cost-rental units under Delivering Homes, Building Communities; the expected per-unit subsidy in each scheme; and the evidence used to justify these subsidy levels. [64409/25]
Mattie McGrath Written 18 Nov 2025 · to Housing
547. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will consider an exemption from the registration and planning requirements under the Short-Term Letting and Tourism Bill 2025 for agritourism operators and owners of protected structures such as thatched cottages, in recognition of their role in rural economic development and heritage preservation; and if he will make a sta…
Mattie McGrath Written 18 Nov 2025 · to Housing
548. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the way in which the proposed national register of short-term lets, to be implemented by Fáilte Ireland, will accommodate the unique circumstances of agritourism providers and heritage property owners in rural Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62727/25]
Mark Ward Written 18 Nov 2025 · to Housing
549. Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the rollout of a social housing passport to allow persons on social housing waiting lists to change local authority without losing time on the list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62732/25]
Eoin Ó Broin Written 18 Nov 2025 · to Housing
550. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of first home scheme drawdowns, where the home buyer was also availing of help-to-buy, for each year since the first home scheme has been operational. [62755/25]
Eoin Ó Broin Written 18 Nov 2025 · to Housing
551. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of help-to-buy drawdowns where the home buyer was also availing of first home scheme for each year since the first home scheme has been operational. [62756/25]
Niamh Smyth Written 18 Nov 2025 · to Housing
552. Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to review an application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62765/25]
Conor Sheehan Written 18 Nov 2025 · to Housing
553. Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he will publish the Bill to introduce new housing reforms in the private rental market; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62784/25]
Conor Sheehan Written 18 Nov 2025 · to Housing
554. Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when his Department will publish its statement of strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62785/25]
Sorca Clarke Written 18 Nov 2025 · to Housing
555. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the percentage of the capital budget allocation for the National Parks and Wildlife Service that has been spent in the first ten months of 2025; if he will provide same figures for the corresponding period in 2023 and 2024, in tabular form. [62810/25]
Barry Ward Written 18 Nov 2025 · to Housing
556. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Housing; Local Government and Heritage if his attention has been drawn to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied) in relation to housing support schemes; the actions he will take to address the concerns outlined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62837/25]
Barry Ward Written 18 Nov 2025 · to Housing
557. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Housing; Local Government and Heritage the position regarding housing supports for persons who fall outside existing schemes, but do not make enough money to compete in the housing market in the context of unprecedented housing prices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62838/25]
Richard Boyd Barrett Written 18 Nov 2025 · to Housing
558. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage whether any funding that is made available for retrofitting local authority housing is intended for tenanted social homes; and if not, if it is exclusively for vacant social homes (details supplied). [62918/25]
Seán Crowe Written 18 Nov 2025 · to Housing
559. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he intends to introduce legislation regarding planning permission for crematoria. [62940/25]
Rose Conway-Walsh Written 18 Nov 2025 · to Housing
560. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Housing; Local Government and Heritage if his Department will consider making funding assistance available to defective concrete block grant scheme applicants for storage and rehousing if the maximum grant cap of €462,000 for the remediation works is reached; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62949/25]
Niamh Smyth Written 18 Nov 2025 · to Housing
561. Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if a case for a wastewater treatment plant (details supplied) can be reviewed; if he will provide an update on the working group; the stage the works are at; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62952/25]
Sorca Clarke Written 18 Nov 2025 · to Housing
562. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of social housing units completed and occupied in each local authority area to date in 2025; and the targets for completion by year end. [62967/25]
Paula Butterly Written 18 Nov 2025 · to Housing
563. Deputy Paula Butterly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on the process to resolve the asbestos issue within Tailte Éireann’s central filing repository; if he can provide an estimate of when this issue may be resolved; if he can provide an estimate of when Tailte Éireann may resume the admission of access requests for all pre-2006 instruments; and if he will make a statem…
James Geoghegan Written 18 Nov 2025 · to Housing
564. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the definition of a derelict property that guide councils in adding sites to the derelict sites register; if the criteria will change ahead of the introduction of the new derelict property tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62987/25]