Parliamentary questions

249. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will consider removing the working family payment from consideration on social housing income thresholds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56099/25]

250. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if local authorities will be permitted to exercise limited discretion when the income threshold for social housing is marginally exceeded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56101/25]

251. Deputy Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if funding announced in Budget 2026 for second-hand acquisitions includes the tenant-in-situ scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56107/25]

252. Deputy Naoise Ó Cearúil asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of housing assistance payment applications submitted in County Kildare from 2022 to 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56266/25]

253. Deputy Naoise Ó Cearúil asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of landlords currently accepting housing assistance payment in County Kildare from 2022 to 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56267/25]

254. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on if the office of the planning regulator is holding back housing supply in certain local authorities; if so, to detail which local authorities; when, and the way in which, the office of the planning regulators is impacting their housing supply in this way. [56322/25]

255. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the abridged estimates volume for Budget 2026 for Vote 34 including the provisional sub head and programme level allocations. [56323/25]

256. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his Department has undertaken any impact assessment, economic analysis, or consultation with stakeholders regarding the proposed prohibition of no-fault evictions for landlords with more than three tenancies, due to come into effect on 1 March 2026; the projected number of private landlords expected to exit th…

257. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the EU funding opportunities that will be open for application for schemes under his Department and at agencies under his aegis in the next six months and in the next 12 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56453/25]

258. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 283 of 25 September 2025, in which he stated that the Housing Agency has confirmed to his Department that the presence of pyrrhotite is taken into consideration in their analysis, if he will confirm whether transitional applicants, those who applied under the origin…

192. Deputy Tom Brabazon asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his Department will update the wind turbine guidelines; and when it is expected they will be published. [56042/25]

193. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason risk assessments for only two invasive freshwater fish species (chub and common carp) out of four listed in the European Communities (Birds and Natural Habitats) Regulations 2011 (S.I. No. 477 of 2011) have been conducted by the National Biodiversity Data Centre; and if he will make a statement on …

194. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the National Parks and Wildlife Service continues to support the removal of invasive pike from the Owenriff system that straddles two SACs near Oughterard, County Galway in an effort to restore the ecosystem to its natural state, in order for Ireland to be in compliance with Article 6.2 of the EU Habitats …

195. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when site data for Irish wetland birds surveys since 2021 will be made available online. [55567/25]

196. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when local authorities will receive compensation for expenses incurred as a result of storm Éowyn; and if he can confirm that this compensation was committed to earlier in the year. [55646/25]

197. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage whether applicants who previously owned a property that was either re-possessed or sold for a vastly reduced price as a result of the property downturn in 2008 can be considered as fresh start applicants in terms of a local authority home loans; and his views on whether this cohort of applicants deserve and need …

198. Deputy John Connolly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the review of the coordinated response to storm Éowyn established to examine all aspects of the State response to the storm under section 6.15 of the Strategic Emergency Management Framework has been completed; if a report arising from the review has been published and the actions which are arising from the …

199. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for a list of all reports commissioned by his Department that have not yet been published, from 2020 to October 2025. [55680/25]

200. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his Department is using agentic AI in the delivery of its services or operations; if it is considering the use of agentic AI, and in what contexts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55701/25]

201. Deputy Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for information on the terms and the parties involved in the proposed action plan led by Wexford County Council and the time scales for agreed action (details supplied). [55708/25]

202. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if there are plans for the National Housing Agency to purchase a housing estate (details supplied) where all the tenants have received eviction notices to leave between February and June of next year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55743/25]

203. Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to outline the number of housing units realised in the cities of Dublin, Cork, Galway, Kilkenny, Limerick and Waterford that have availed of the vacant homes refurbishment grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55745/25]

204. Deputy Naoise Ó Cearúil asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of social housing units completed by county, for the years 2022 to 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55799/25]

205. Deputy Naoise Ó Cearúil asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of approved housing assistance payment tenancies in County Kildare from 2022 to 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55802/25]

206. Deputy Danny Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if a request for the tenant-in situ-scheme will be considered for persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55808/25]