185. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration whether any national policy framework, operational guidance or internal protocol exists governing the placement of international protection applicants within residential estates or standard private housing developments. [37952/26]
Topics / Departmental Properties
A subject heading for parliamentary questionsDepartmental Properties
358 questions from 65 TDs, between 22 January 2025 and 15 October 2026.
358
questions
357 written, 1 oral
65
TDs have asked
9
parties and groups
Independents counted together
20
departments asked
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| January 2025 | 20 |
| February 2025 | 41 |
| March 2025 | 18 |
| April 2025 | 30 |
| May 2025 | 7 |
| June 2025 | 15 |
| July 2025 | 6 |
| August 2025 | 0 |
| September 2025 | 40 |
| October 2025 | 6 |
| November 2025 | 30 |
| December 2025 | 8 |
| January 2026 | 2 |
| February 2026 | 20 |
| March 2026 | 4 |
| April 2026 | 37 |
| May 2026 | 28 |
| June 2026 | 23 |
| July 2026 | 7 |
| August 2026 | 0 |
| September 2026 | 13 |
| October 2026 | 3 |
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The questions
186. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration whether any consultation, notification or community engagement obligations apply before residential properties are brought into use for international protection accommodation purposes. [37953/26]
187. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration whether local authorities, management companies, elected representatives, An Garda Síochána, schools or health services are routinely notified before such properties become operational. [37954/26]
188. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration whether any assessment is conducted regarding local infrastructure capacity, including school places, GP capacity, transport availability and community services, before residential properties are utilised for international protection accommodation. [37955/26]
189. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration whether the Department maintains a central register of residential properties used for international protection accommodation purposes. [37956/26]
190. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of residential properties currently occupied by single male applicants, family applicants and vulnerable persons respectively. [37957/26]
191. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration whether any formal community engagement meetings relating to residential-property-based international protection accommodation were cancelled, deferred or withdrawn since 2024. [37958/26]
192. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration whether the Department intends to expand the use of standard residential housing stock for international protection accommodation over the next three years. [37959/26]
335. Deputy Naoise Ó Muirí asked the Minister for Defence if she is aware of the condition of a property a person (details supplied) is residing in; if she is aware of the person's desire to regularise the tenancy arrangements with her Department in order that repairs can be undertaken, including repair of the house and possible subsidence issues that can be resolved; and if she will make a statement on the matter. …
1208. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Health to provide an update on HSE lands (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37647/26]
284. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation for an update in respect of the use of a premises (details supplied); if any public body has requested use of it in past five years to date; and the annual cost of its upkeep since it went into non occupancy. [36460/26]
709. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether any service-level agreements, performance targets, or governance frameworks exist between the Department of Health and the Health Service Executive regarding estate utilisation and vacancy management. [36273/26]
710. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether her Department considers prolonged residential vacancy within publicly owned health estates to constitute a governance or value-for-money risk; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36274/26]
778. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of residential properties he is listed as owner of on behalf of his Department; the county locations of same; the total costs incurred in purchasing these properties; the number that are allocated for use as international protection accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34096/26]
784. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of residential properties (that would be described as family homes) in the ownership of his Department, in each local authority area; and the purposes for which these properties are used, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34133/26]
785. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of properties that have been transferred or purchased from the Housing and Sustainable Communities Agency to his Department in each month since January 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34134/26]
786. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if his Department owns a residential property (details supplied), as reported in a media outlet; the circumstances in which the property was purchased; and the intended purpose for which his Department will utilise the property; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34135/26]
787. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of IPAS applicants that are housed by his Department in residential properties (that would be described as family homes) currently, and for each month since January 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34136/26]
900. Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of revenue his Department has received from rent from commercial units in each of the Fisheries Harbour Centre under his Department in the first four months of 2026; if he will provide the same figures for the corresponding period in 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35212/26]
987. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to consider the purchase of a building in Kilcock, County Kildare (details supplied) under the new €135 million programme of State-led early learning and childcare services; if she will provide a schedule of sites that she has already purchased and/or leased under the scheme to date and if she will indicate whether lease or purchase o…
71. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Defence if her Department or the Defence Forces have plans to renovate and bring back into use more than 80 vacant homes at the Curragh Camp; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33195/26]
220. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Transport if he has plans for the abandoned theatre (details supplied) in Busáras; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34200/26]
268. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if a proposal will be accommodated regarding the re-opening of a centre (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33816/26]
386. Deputy George Lawlor asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will take immediate steps to address a dangerous site owned by her Department in Clonard Village, Wexford town (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32402/26]
268. Deputy George Lawlor asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation further to Parliamentary Question No. 465 of 19 March 2025, if it has been established whether the property referred to (details supplied) has in fact been vested in the Minister under section 28 of the State Property Act 1954; the action that can be taken to secure and make safe this extensiv…