Questions

376. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage given that he has indicated previously that his Department would be reviewing and raising social housing income limits this year, to provide an update on his work in this area. [70626/26]

253. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if a qualified child Increase payment from the Department of Social Protection is reckonable as income when assessing for social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53946/26]

1089. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to confirm if a “qualified child increase” is taken into account in the assessment of means for social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42767/26]

330. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if a homeowner letting a room in their own principal private residence as a short-term holiday let, will be impacted by regulations (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31540/26]

997. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he will report on the progress of the housing investment and policy impact working group. [14449/26]

199. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage whether he intends to raise the income limits for social housing eligibility. [17821/26]

279. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will clarify the situation in relation to the tenant-in-situ scheme in cases (details supplied); which local authority should be approached to explore the possibility of a tenant-in-situ scheme purchase; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7021/26]

307. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an overview of the legislation governing medical priority in allocation of social homes and supported tenancies. [62420/25]

308. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to outline any role for agencies and departments outside of his remit in determining eligibility for medical priority in allocation of social homes and supported tenancies. [62421/25]

498. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount that has been allocated to each local authority to retrofit homes in 2025, including any loans; of this, the amount that has been drawn down to date; and of this, the amount that has been spent to date, broken down by local authority and funding stream. [57330/25]

282. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide the data he has available on the number of households that were rendered ineligible for social housing due to an uplift to the working families payment in January 2025. [53167/25]

1723. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on whether it is consistent with national policy that a local authority in Dublin has voted to reduce the density of zoned housing on a vacant parcel of land (details supplied). [44352/25]

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]

761. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is considering any policy measures to expand public land holdings in Irish cities and bring them in line with cities like Helsinki where 70% of land is in public ownership; his views on how such a policy might support housing delivery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23988/25]

256. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if a person, who has obtained a debt relief notice which includes rent arrears, can be penalised by a local authority by putting a social housing transfer on hold pending payment of arrears on their rent account; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22298/25]

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]

25. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance if he is planning to close tax incentives benefitting vulture funds, other property-related investment funds and profit driven investors to prevent them buying up residential property given the on-going housing crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5109/25]