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Housing Schemes

1,089 questions from 126 TDs, between 22 January 2025 and 21 October 2026.

1,089
questions
1,068 written, 21 oral
126
TDs have asked
11
parties and groups
Independents counted together
10
departments asked

Questions per month

The record holds no questions for August, when the Dáil does not sit.

Jan 2025Oct 2026
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MonthQuestions
January 202524
February 202585
March 202570
April 202559
May 202590
June 202525
July 202593
August 20250
September 202559
October 202552
November 202575
December 202525
January 202684
February 202650
March 202666
April 202637
May 202646
June 202687
July 202623
August 20260
September 202624
October 202615

Who asks, by party

The party each TD belonged to on the day, in alphabetical order. Parties differ a lot in size, and members of the Government answer questions rather than ask them, so this shows who raised it, not how much a party cares about it.

  • 100% RDR3 from 1 TD · 1 seat today
  • Aontú31 from 2 TDs · 2 seats today
  • Fianna Fáil283 from 33 TDs · 48 seats today
  • Fine Gael168 from 22 TDs · 38 seats today
  • Green Party16 from 1 TD · 1 seat today
  • Independent37 from 10 TDs · 15 seats today
  • Independent Ireland32 from 2 TDs · 4 seats today
  • Labour Party111 from 10 TDs · 11 seats today
  • People Before Profit-Solidarity44 from 3 TDs · 3 seats today
  • Sinn Féin306 from 33 TDs · 39 seats today

The TDs who asked most

Members of the Government answer questions rather than ask them. Each question counts once.

  1. 79
  2. 57
  3. 42
  4. 39
  5. 31
  6. 31
  7. 29
  8. 27

Asked of

Debated under the same heading

Debates whose official heading is exactly these words.

The questions

James O'Connor Written 1 Jul 2025 · to Housing
111. Deputy James O'Connor asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the supports he is providing for affordable housing and cost rental; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35877/25]
Conor D McGuinness Written 1 Jul 2025 · to Housing
115. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the level of funding provided by his Department to local authorities per site under the affordable serviced sites scheme; the average cost per site incurred by local authorities in developing such serviced sites; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35814/25]
Pearse Doherty Written 1 Jul 2025 · to Public Expenditure
299. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the reason it was decided to not proceed with the relocation of a family (details supplied) as part of the voluntary homeowners relocation scheme, despite repeated severe flooding of their home and all indications being that they would be relocated; and if he will make a statement on the matt…
Danny Healy-Rae Written 1 Jul 2025 · to Housing
456. Deputy Danny Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage why County Kerry is not included in the affordable housing scheme; if it will be included, and when; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35414/25]
Peter 'Chap' Cleere Written 1 Jul 2025 · to Housing
461. Deputy Peter 'Chap' Cleere asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to examine the cases of persons (details supplied) regarding their application for housing aid for older people grant scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35496/25]
Barry Ward Written 1 Jul 2025 · to Housing
468. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the position regarding the tenant in situ scheme for Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council; the number of houses purchased under this scheme to date; if any future funding is proposed to be allocated to this local authority under this initiative; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35691/25]
Robert O'Donoghue Written 1 Jul 2025 · to Housing
475. Deputy Robert O'Donoghue asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount of funding allocated to the tenant in situ scheme in Fingal for the years 2023 and 2024; and the amount ring-fenced for 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35738/25]
Mairéad Farrell Written 1 Jul 2025 · to Housing
483. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is aware of any supports and grants for people of limited means or with disabilities to fix damaged driveways in instances where these fall outside the council’s roads and footpaths remediation works programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35907/25]
Conor Sheehan Written 1 Jul 2025 · to Housing
490. Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will outline details of an unpublished 2023 directive from his Department to local authorities instructing them to purchase homes with tenants in situ where possible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36071/25]
Conor Sheehan Written 1 Jul 2025 · to Housing
491. Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide details on a unit set up within his Department by his predecessor to engage with local authorities in relation to the tenant in situ scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36072/25]
Ken O'Flynn Written 1 Jul 2025 · to Housing
498. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will outline, in light of recent reports concerning the status of the tenant in situ scheme in Cork city and Cork county, the number of acquisitions currently paused or delayed due to funding constraints in each of these local authorities; whether he intends to provide supplementary funding to address the reported €1.7 million…
Colm Burke Written 26 Jun 2025 · to Housing
268. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to confirm that local authorities (details supplied) would not deem an application for the housing adaptation grant as incomplete, where outstanding supporting documentation is required, and return it by post along with supporting documentation to the applicant but instead accept the application, retain the documents and request furt…
Albert Dolan Written 25 Jun 2025 · to Housing
111. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 505 of 17 June 2025, to provide a statistical breakdown of applications and approvals since the commencement of each of the home ownership support schemes currently in operation (details supplied), in tabular form, and if the Minister will outline whether this data is used for internal monitori…
Alan Kelly Written 25 Jun 2025 · to Housing
115. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount of funding his Department provided for the housing adaptation grants for older people and people with disabilities in the years of 2024 and 2025, in tabular form. [34734/25]
Rory Hearne Written 25 Jun 2025 · to Housing
116. Deputy Rory Hearne asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of units provided under the CAS for care leavers scheme in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34751/25]
Rory Hearne Written 25 Jun 2025 · to Housing
117. Deputy Rory Hearne asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the funding provided for the CAS for care leavers scheme in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34752/25]
Erin McGreehan Written 24 Jun 2025 · to Housing
481. Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on the housing aid for older people grant, specifically whether boiler replacements remain eligible under the scheme; and if they are no longer included, the alternative supports that are available to cover such essential upgrades. [33262/25]
Pa Daly Written 24 Jun 2025 · to Housing
490. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the measures he is taking to transpose the energy performance of buildings directive into national law; the measures he is taking to comply with the measures related to BER ratings; the measures he is taking to ensure compliance in the private rental sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33686/25]
John Lahart Written 24 Jun 2025 · to Housing
491. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the first home bridge the gap scheme will be extended to first-time buyers of second-hand homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33692/25]
Ivana Bacik Written 24 Jun 2025 · to Housing
544. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total value of grant payments issued by local authorities to persons who have completed works using the vacant property refurbishment grant in each of the years 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025; the number of applications made for the vacant property refurbishment grants in each county, in each month, in the same period, in tabular for…
Duncan Smith Written 24 Jun 2025 · to Housing
549. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if there are plans to raise the cap on the first home scheme and the help to buy scheme, specifically for Dublin, as new builds in areas such as Swords exceed the current cap; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34441/25]
Michael Cahill Written 24 Jun 2025 · to Housing
552. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he would consider extending housing adaptation grant schemes to include support for the purchase of generators for homes with a dependence on electrically powered medical equipment (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34509/25]
Louis O'Hara Written 17 Jun 2025 · to Housing
501. Deputy Louis O'Hara asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if local authority tenants, living in a part V home, can purchase their home under the tenant purchase scheme; if he intends to review this policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32023/25]
Albert Dolan Written 17 Jun 2025 · to Housing
505. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to list each of the current government schemes in operation that are intended to support home ownership or assist individuals to buy or build a home (including, but not limited to, the first home scheme, help to buy, local authority home loan, and the affordable purchase scheme); for each scheme, to specify what data fields are rec…
Frankie Feighan Written 17 Jun 2025 · to Housing
530. Deputy Frankie Feighan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his Department will consider changes to the vacant property grant (croí conaithe grant) to allow houses built but not completed from the 31 December 2007 deadline under the current regulations to 31 December 2009 (details supplied). [32598/25]