490. Deputy Paul McAuliffe asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total value of croí cónaithe grants paid out in 2024 compared to the total amount of funding available. [7199/25]
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491. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount provided for the return of voids in 2023, 2024 and 2025; and the number of homes this was for respectively, by local authority, in tabular form. [7245/25]
492. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of relevant sites for the residential zoned land tax which a levy has been applied, the amount that has been collected to date and the amount owed, by local authority. [7246/25]
493. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the funding provided for public realm enhancement in each of the years 2019, 2024 and 2025, by local authority, in tabular form. [7247/25]
494. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of people currently employed as graduate planner, assistant planner, executive planner and senior planner respectively, in his Department, in tabular form. [7248/25]
495. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount spent in each of the years 2019, 2023 and 2024 by his Department on planning consultancy firms, in tabular form. [7249/25]
496. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason a fully completed apartment complex is lying vacant for the past six months on the corner of Grange Road and Nutgrove Avenue, Rathfarnham; and if this development was included in his Department’s figures for housing completions in 2024, notwithstanding the fact that it remains vacant. [7262/25]
497. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will take into consideration the circumstances of applicants when assessing applications for housing adaptations for people with a disability, housing aid for older people and the mobility aids grant (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7297/25]
498. Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on the actions taken in Louth by the Land Development Agency, and to list the State-owned sites that might be available for potential development. [7300/25]
499. Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if there are any active plans to build social and affordable housing units on State lands in Louth by the Land Development Agency. [7301/25]
500. Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if there has been a directive from the Department to local authorities to limit the number of approved housing body units that can be delivered in a local authority area. [7303/25]
501. Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the work that has been done in cooperation with the Department of Health with regard to the forward planning for future young adults who have a disability who will have a housing need. [7304/25]
502. Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of housing units have been delivered specifically for people with intellectual disabilities over the years 2020 – 2024, per local authority area, in tabular form. [7305/25]
503. Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to make disability access training compulsory for technical and planning staff within each local authority. [7316/25]
504. Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to make funding available for each local authority for accessibility auditing and accessibility improvements to services to the public. [7317/25]
505. Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to make funding available for each local authority to ensure each event organised by the local authority would have individuals’ accessibility needs addressed. [7318/25]
506. Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to make disability equity and awareness training compulsory for all local authority staff. [7319/25]
507. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of sites zoned for housing in each county by the local authorities, in tabular form. [7373/25]
508. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of sites per local authority that have levies placed on them and the amount collected from these levies, in tabular form. [7374/25]
509. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is aware that Uisce Éireann has reduced its funding to local authorities for 2025; and if so, the amount of reduction by local authority, in tabular form. [7406/25]
510. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide a schedule of all external legal consultation that he engaged in, in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025; the general nature of the engagement; if the external consultation resulted in a report and or recommendations; and the cost of each consultant and or company engaged, in tabular form. [7438/25]
511. Deputy Charles Ward asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason solar panels were not installed on any of the new housing at a location (details supplied); if there are any plans for new builds to be required to have a minimum number of solar panels in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7449/25]
512. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if assistance is available to families who go above the income threshold for social housing supports due to the automatic payment of working family payment arising from a reduction in income that year, and therefore lose their cumulative waiting time on the housing list. [7451/25]
513. Deputy Rory Hearne asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his Department conducted research to inform the Government decision not to re-introduce a ban on no fault evictions; if so, if he will make this research publicly available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7474/25]
514. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of local authority homes in Galway city and county that had chimneys removed by the council during the course of renovations and retrofits in 2022, 2023 and 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7496/25]