871. Deputy John McGuinness asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the documents proposing the review of the 2019 wind energy and development guidelines and the outcomes of the analysis to date, with all relevant working papers, will be published; the cost to date in developing these guidelines; if the process is near completion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30917/25]
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384. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will undertake a scoping exercise on the effect of commercial rates on retail businesses; if he will examine whether a scheme based on annual turnover rather than net annual value would be more appropriate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28884/25]
385. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason he is proposing to designate nearly 10% of our waterbodies as ‘heavily modified water bodies’ without providing the supporting evidence or analysis to justify this decision, and without fully exploring less damaging alternatives as part of the Water Action Plan consultation; and if he will make a statement on the mat…
386. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on the review of The Wildlife Act 1976; the proposed timeline for publication of the review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28424/25]
387. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage whether his Department has assessed a location (details supplied) as a potential location for new housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28471/25]
388. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is aware that homeowners who cannot complete the remediation of their homes under the enhanced defective blocks grant scheme, within the required timeframe, on genuine and certifiable medical grounds, must reapply to the scheme; and how he proposes to resolve this issue. [28479/25]
389. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is considering amending the turnkey purchase of housing developments for social housing to allow for stage payments to the building developers. [28494/25]
390. Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage whether there is scope for a family centre in Clondalkin to apply for funding through the Urban Regeneration and Development Fund under “other” for a new build; what the process is; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28535/25]
391. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage whether the policy whereby someone cannot have their homeless HAP increased to the new increased level while they stay in existing accommodation (details supplied) will be reviewed. [28546/25]
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]