588. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his officials have been made aware of alarming practices on the part of residential housing developers (details supplied); if he will outline the non-judicial remedies homeowners may seek in such cases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39332/25]
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589. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide a schedule of housing projects sanctioned and or funded in full and or in part to include number of units, by type, that have been paused and or rejected due to deviations from design, specification and or cost expectations did not represent value for money in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025. [39345/25]
590. Deputy Rory Hearne asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the revised draft Shannon River Bye-laws, when he expects the results of the departmental and legal review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39378/25]
591. Deputy Rory Hearne asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when his Department will publish the revised draft Shannon River bye-laws; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39379/25]
592. Deputy Willie O'Dea asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if it has been brought to his attention that pyrite has been found in some social housing; and the measures he intends to take to assist local authorities to deal with the problem. [39391/25]
593. Deputy Willie O'Dea asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is aware of how slow the pyrite redress scheme process is; and if this process will be sped up. [39392/25]
594. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if plans to prevent landlords from increasing rents to market rates between tenancies where the previous tenant has been evicted on a no fault eviction basis will apply to no fault evictions of pre-June 2022 tenants; who, for example, can be evicted for no reason in the last 6 months of their tenancy; and if he will make a statement…
595. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if plans to prevent landlords from increasing rents to market rates between tenancies where the previous tenant has been evicted on a no fault eviction basis will apply to no fault evictions of tenants with tenancies of indefinite duration for example where the rental property has been sold to a new landlord; and if he will make a s…
596. Deputy Séamus McGrath asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will consider transferring the derelict sites levy for collection by Revenue in the same way the residential zoned land tax is collected by Revenue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39015/25]
597. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the breakdown of the affordable purchase and cost rental homes delivered in 2024 by the delivery streams (details supplied); and the average delivery cost per unit, for each of these delivery streams. [39445/25]
598. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on the actions he has taken, and proposes to take, regarding the defective concrete block scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39489/25]
599. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the funding allocated under the CAS programme to AHBs in 2025. [39509/25]
600. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a list of all assessments and analyses undertaken by his officials in the preparation of the Planning Design Standards for Apartments, Guidelines for Planning Authorities, 2025, including analysis of the cost reductions per unit of accommodation arising from the revised standards; and to publish these assessments and ana…
601. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to list all national strategies, action plans or documents that may be described as such, which are currently in operation and under the remit of his Department. [39611/25]
602. Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans to introduce regulations to provide for a deposit retention scheme under section 61 of the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 2015; the timeline for same; the measures being taken to strengthen tenants’ rights in respect of deposits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39659/25]
603. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to list the research papers on which his claim that Irish apartment design standards are the highest in Europe; if this research was produced by his Department; if not, the name of the organisations that undertook this research; and to publish the research on which this claim was made which is being used to justify the new design s…
604. Deputy Rory Hearne asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the spend to date on the implementation on his Department’s new IT system, project Dion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39730/25]
605. Deputy Rory Hearne asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the implementation timeline for his Department’s new IT system, project Dion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39732/25]
606. Deputy Rory Hearne asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason for such delays in respect of reported delays in his Department’s new IT system project Dion, being set up; when his Department expects the new IT system to be operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39733/25]
239. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the marine protected areas legislation will be introduced (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38508/25]
240. Deputy Séamus McGrath asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on the proposed marine protected areas legislation. [38511/25]
241. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will be setting up an electoral commission to review the local electoral boundaries before the 2029 local elections; if this will be based on the most recent 2022 census or if the commission will await the results of the 2027 census; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38370/25]
242. Deputy Jen Cummins asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage what regulations there are for housing above shop and bar fronts to protect the residents from noise pollution. [38375/25]
243. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will consider extending the Uisce Éireann rebate and development contribution waiver for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38379/25]
244. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 468 of 1 July 2025, if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the full funding provided to Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council is allocated under the tenant-in-situ scheme; if he will consider providing additional targeted funding to this local authority under this scheme; and if he will…