Questions

398. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he can outline plans to support the tenant-in-situ scheme via funding and also through the eligibility criteria; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28831/25]

236. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the plans he has to change the regulations for small dwellings, such a portacabins to be built in people’s gardens; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28469/25]

243. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage that further steps that his Department is taking to support homeownership for people under the age of 30; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27897/25]

282. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when easing of planning regulations to allow for larger unattached structures to be built in peoples back gardens are expected to be in place; the size that will be enforced; the provisions that will be in place for an individual who breaches these planning laws; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28356/25]

356. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 512 of 25 February 2025, his views on whether it is consistent with the aims of the Pathways to Work 2021-2025 strategy, namely that whether on welfare, in employment or a combination of both, a person can be assured of a minimum basic income and a person in employment will always recei…

359. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he has considered that income limits for social housing eligibility act as a “welfare cliff” (details supplied) that disincentivise eligible individuals from taking up employment or applying for promotion. [26723/25]

360. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for details of any engagements with his colleagues in the Department of Social Protection or the Department of Enterprise, Tourism and Employment regarding the impact of social housing income limits on the behaviours of individuals who are on the housing list or preparing to apply for the list; if, in particular, the limits…

361. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to outline, given that social housing is a key part of the architecture of social protection in Ireland, his views on whether his Department’s approach to social housing income limits is consistent with the aims of the Pathways to Work 2021-2025 strategy; namely, that whether on welfare, in employment or a combination of bo…

362. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for details of any research, completed or ongoing, concerning the impact of social housing income limits on the behaviours of individuals who are on the housing list or preparing to apply for the list; whether, in particular, the limits disincentivise taking up employment or applying for payments to which an individual may …

363. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage whether legislation will be progressed indexing income limits for social housing eligibility to either inflation, the minimum wage, the median wage, average industrial wage, or lower quartile wage to reflect the decline in purchasing power over time of incomes that were previously considered to be too high for a person to b…

364. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is aware that there are income gaps in the available housing schemes operated by his Department and by local authorities whereby a person’s income may be too high for social housing eligibility and at the same time too low for any available cost rental options or to take advantage of schemes for first-time buyers; and…

365. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will consider abolishing the income limits for social housing eligibility and fund a universally accessible social housing system through a scheme of differential rents. [26729/25]

395. Deputy Rory Hearne asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to explain the rationale for recent comments he made in a newspaper (details supplied) regarding international investors; to provide any analysis his Department has conducted or used on the amount of any such investment in housing by international investors that Ireland is believed to be losing out on; the countries believed to be g…

396. Deputy Rory Hearne asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his Department has directly produced, or contracted a third-party to produce, an analysis of the return on investment or yield from private residential investment in Ireland and the factors that may be impacting the levels of such investment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27550/25]

404. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he would consider discounting the working family payment when assessing income for inclusion on the social housing list or alternatively include income from the working family payment as part of the local authority loan assessment process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27700/25]

266. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the measures his Department is implementing to address the reported increase in the number of children in emergency accommodation, as highlighted in recent statistics; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26541/25]

267. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update on the implementation status of the 14 recommendations made in the 2019 report by the Oireachtas Committee on Housing regarding child and family homelessness; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26542/25]

268. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage how his Department assesses the impact of housing policies on children, specifically regarding the use of a children’s rights framework; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26543/25]

269. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the steps being taken to develop a specific child and family focused homelessness strategy, as recommended by the Ombudsman for Children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26544/25]

74. Deputy Shane Moynihan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the measures being implemented to improve access to cost rental housing for single applicants in Dublin, given current eligibility criteria and affordability assessments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26077/25]

81. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the steps he is taking to strike a fair balance between investment in housing and ensuring first-time buyers are not pushed out of the market; if he is aware of reports that some new developments (details supplied), are being marketed overseas to large investors; if he plans to introduce any further measures to manage this type of…

526. Deputy Brian Brennan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if there are plans to re-introduce the local development levy waiver on new houses, as was offered to home builders up to December 2024, considering the increasing building costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25092/25]

542. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a detailed update on actions taken by his Department to ensure compliance with the European Convention of Human Rights on foot of their decision in the Collective Complaint FIDH v Ireland Complaint no 110/2014 and its decision in 2017 finding the Irish State failed to take sufficient and timely measures to ensure the rig…

545. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the protections available to a person on a leasehold agreement. [25374/25]

559. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he intends to extend the temporary waiver in respect of development contributions paid to local authorities for owner occupiers building their own homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25772/25]