1544. Deputy Aindrias Moynihan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of local authority home loans approved and drawn down for Cork county for 2023, 2024 and 2025 to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42257/25]
Parliamentary questions
Questions
TDs ask ministers questions to get answers on the record, most of them in writing. Here is every one asked in the 34th Dáil, by the department it went to and the subject heading it was filed under. How questions work
Browse the questions
9,020 questions match, newest first.
1545. Deputy Aindrias Moynihan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of Croí Cónaithe applications received, with a breakdown of vacant and derelict applications received for the years 2023, 2024 and 2025 to date; and the number of these applications for the same years under vacant and derelict that have drawn down their approved funding, in tabular form; and if he will make a state…
1546. Deputy Aindrias Moynihan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of archaeological excavations licensed in Cork county in each of the past five years, including their location, development context and major findings, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42259/25]
1547. Deputy Aindrias Moynihan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of vacant residential properties across the State currently; the efforts that are being taken to address this issue; the estimated impact on housing supply; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42260/25]
1548. Deputy Aindrias Moynihan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the current status of heritage sites in the State to include the number of sites registered, those at risk, and funding allocated to each for their preservation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42261/25]
1549. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the current staffing levels for the roles of district conservation officer, regional manager and park ranger in the National Parks and Wildlife Service for the mid southern division and the duration of vacancies in any of these roles; and the details of recruitment drives for these roles, in each of the years 2022 to 2024 and to da…
1550. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the assessments his Department has carried out on the impact of students studying English language courses on housing pressures in the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42335/25]
1551. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to outline his Department’s strategy in relation to the housing needs of students studying on English language courses in the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42336/25]
1552. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the percentage of students studying on English language courses who were housed in the private rented sector, who were housed in designated student accommodation, who were staying with host families and who were in other types of accommodation, in the last five years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. …
1553. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on the delays at the Land Registry; the initiatives being taken to rectify these delays; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42339/25]
1554. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will examine the position of a person (details supplied); if advice will be provided on whether they are eligible for the enhanced defective concrete block scheme; the additional supports that might be available to them to rebuild their home which is affected by pyrite; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42…
1555. Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount spent by his Department and State bodies under its aegis on travel and subsistence in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42468/25]
1556. D'fhiafraigh Deputy Mairéad Farrell den Aire Tithíochta, Rialtais Áitiúil agus Oidhreachta cén chaoi a bhfuil a Roinn ag tabhairt tacaíochta do húdaráis áitiúla chun sprioc 20% de sheirbhísigh poiblí ina n-oifigigh dhátheangacha faoi dheireadh 2030 a bhaint amach; cén dúl chun cinn atá déanta maidir leis seo go dtí seo; an céadatán den fhoireann i ngach údarás áitúil atá dátheangach faoi láthair, i bhfoirm tábl…
1557. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of affordable purchase and cost-rental homes, respectively, that will be delivered through Land Development Agency investment, in view of new regulations on apartment sizes; and the number that would be provided without that change in the law. [42535/25]
1558. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on the need for additional social and affordable housing in Rathmines and the surrounding area, including by way of part V housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42537/25]
1559. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the targeted policies being introduced by his Department to support young adults in accessing affordable housing, to enable family formation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42548/25]
1560. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he has carried out a review of his Department's voids programme to take account of construction inflation; if not, his plans to do so; the average cost of a void turnaround in each local authority area, in tabular form; and the average time taken to convert a void in each local authority area, in tabular form. [42562/25]
1561. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to set out the total capital outturn from his Department, in each year for 2020 to 2024, by vote subhead, in tabular form. [42611/25]
1562. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason there are well in excess of 200 people over 65 years of age in homeless accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42639/25]
1563. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to consider introducing emergency legislation to expedite housing developments for the general population as has been done in response to accommodation needs under IPAS given the urgency of the ongoing housing crisis. [42668/25]
1564. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to estimate the full year cost of the maintenance of local authority rented homes, broken down by local authority. [42731/25]
1565. Deputy Eoghan Kenny asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the date for a mayoral plebiscite for Cork city that will happen before the 2029 local elections; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42737/25]
1566. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for a timeline on his Department’s working group review of engineering qualifications for the local government sector, which began in April 2024 and is now awaiting a decision from him; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42738/25]
1567. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount of zoned land capable of residential development owned by local authorities nationwide; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42745/25]
1568. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the revised population targets as per the revised NPF have been formally communicated to local authorities. [42747/25]