Parliamentary questions

392. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he has concerns in relation to other countries seeking to influence Irish elections and referenda through misinformation and disinformation; if there is a strategy to counter this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28756/25]

393. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will consider the development of a national park at the Blackstairs Mountains in south Leinster; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28757/25]

394. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the costs in each of the years 2020 to 2024 and to date in 2025 to his Department and to agencies under his remit, including Uisce Éireann, of legal actions relating to planning and construction of housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28758/25]

395. Deputy John Connolly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of waste enforcement officers employed in each local authority throughout the country, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28764/25]

396. Deputy Charles Ward asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason Government bodies have been to Wexford and tested a number of properties for defective concrete, over a year ago, yet test results have not been made available; and when the results will be available to homeowners in Wexford. [28808/25]

397. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will consider reviewing Government’s acquisition cost guidelines for Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28830/25]

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]

399. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is considering changes to standards to include second homes and holiday homes in the defective blocks scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28870/25]

400. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is considering changing standards to include penalty downsizing without penalties and modular homes to the defective home scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28878/25]

401. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the breakdown of the value of commercial rates collected by each local authority for the years 2022, 2023 and 2024, in tabular form. [28885/25]

402. Deputy James Geoghegan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will consider the issues raised by a person (details supplied) and provide a response in relation to development levy wavers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28897/25]

403. Deputy Edward Timmins asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will review the definition of areas under urban influence as defined under the previous national planning framework and ensure that this far too broad definition is changed and not applied to the new national planning framework. [26333/25]

234. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the initiatives that will protect our maritime cultural heritage, as committed to in the Programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27930/25]

235. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the cost of doubling the funding for the local biodiversity action fund. [28199/25]

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]

237. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to reevaluate the current funding being given to county councils for the tenant-in-situ scheme, increasing the available funding to allow them to complete agreed upon purchases under the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27810/25]

238. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide a timeline and expected milestones for the identification and re-zoning of land following his direction to local authorities to reopen development plans; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27842/25]

239. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if an audit of underutilised land or zoned but undeveloped land has been carried out in the last 12 months; if not, if such an audit will be commissioned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27843/25]

240. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he intends to raise the income thresholds for social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27856/25]

241. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the further steps that are in place to ensure his Department delivers sustainable housing to promote renewable energy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27895/25]

242. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the further steps that his Department is taking to increase the number of social houses built across the country as outlined in the Housing Commission Report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27896/25]

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]

244. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to outline how the targets for the delivery of over 300,000 homes by 2030 will be monitored and enforced; what portion of these are expected to result directly from his direction to local authorities to reopen development plans; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27899/25]

245. Deputy Naoise Ó Cearúil asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans to address the 3.4% increase in average national rent prices between January and March this year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27914/25]

246. Deputy Naoise Ó Cearúil asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans to reform the rent pressure zones in order to address high rent prices and supply shortages; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27915/25]