Conor Sheehan

Labour Party · Limerick City

Activity on Housing — 261 events (41 lobbying · 213 questions · 15 votes) full profile →

• 2026-03-27
  LOBBY
  ActionAid Ireland Justice and Equality

  • Follow up request to attend an event focused on challenges facing lone parents in direct provision.
• 2026-03-24
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the ceilings for the first homes scheme will be raised and if he will raise the ceiling for Limerick city as it currently stands at €425,000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21709/26]
• 2026-03-24
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21717/26]
• 2026-03-24
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will expedite the legislative review of the Directly Elected Mayor of Limerick legislation; to provide a clear timeline for when the review will be commenced; when the review will conclude; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21722/26]
• 2026-03-24
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of vacancies that exist for qualified planning staff in each local authority, by county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21740/26]
• 2026-03-24
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of sanctioned posts for qualified planning staff in each local authority, by county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21741/26]
• 2026-03-24
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of vacancies that exist for qualified planning staff in each regional assembly, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21742/26]
• 2026-03-24
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the steps being taken, including a list of open competitions and future planned competitions to fill the vacancies in qualified planning staff in local authorities and regional assemblies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21743/26]
• 2026-03-24
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of qualified planners that have resigned from local authorities between 2020 and 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21744/26]
• 2026-03-24
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of local authorities that are supporting their staff to get an accredited planning qualification; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21745/26]
• 2026-03-18
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the refurbishment works that were carried out at each National Park during 2025; if each of those refurbishment works projects are completed or still ongoing at present, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18229/26]
• 2026-03-18
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the next round of URDF funding will open for applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18534/26]
• 2026-03-18
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the action he will take to address the unaffordability and the viability gap of cost rental; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19020/26]
• 2026-03-18
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to consider increasing RAS contribution limits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19021/26]
• 2026-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the action he proposes to take to address the growing housing deficit given that Government never met their targets for social and affordable housing delivery under Housing for All; if he will revise the targets contained within Delivering Homes, Building Communities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17104/26]
• 2026-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the Social Housing Construction Status Report for Q4 of 2025 will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16458/26]
• 2026-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the new measures he will bring forward to tackle rising and homelessness; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16460/26]
• 2026-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total amount of uncollected derelict site levies as of February 2026; the new measures he will bring forward to force local authorities to collect uncollected levies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16459/26]
• 2026-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on the work of the Housing Activation Office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17105/26]
• 2026-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of cost rental homes that will be delivered under Delivering Homes, Building Communities; the actions he will take to ensure cost rental rents will be affordable; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16461/26]
• 2026-03-03
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage Government the total number of properties acquired by local authorities under the local authority tenant-in-situ scheme, broken down by county, for 2024 and 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16668/26]
• 2026-03-03
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of housing units delivered through the local infrastructure housing activation fund broken down by year in tabular form since 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16692/26]
• 2026-02-26
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of properties and sites under the Derelict Sites Act 1990, by local authority for each of the years 2022 to 2026, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15748/26]
• 2026-02-26
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount outstanding in levies that were levied but not collected under the Derelict Sites Act 1990 between 2022 and 2026, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15749/26]
• 2026-02-26
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the implementation process and the exact timelines for the derelict property tax; the engagement he had with local authorities on the public of preliminary registers of derelict properties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15750/26]
• 2026-02-26
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of derelict properties, by local authority area, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15752/26]
• 2026-02-26
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his Department has received the responses from the local authorities yet; when the derelict sites levy collection data for 2025 will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15753/26]
• 2026-02-26
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount that was paid out in the vacant property refurbishment grant, by county, in 2022 to 2025 and to-date in 2026, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15754/26]
• 2026-02-26
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of applications received for the vacant property refurbishment grant, by county, in 2022 to 2025 and to date in 2026, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15755/26]
• 2026-02-26
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of applications refused for the vacant property refurbishment grant, by county, in 2022 to 2025 and to-date in 2026, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15756/26]
• 2026-02-24
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason the exemption for protected structures is listed as a potential exception in urban areas of high population under the short-term letting regulations and does not apply to rural areas where many historic structures are not suitable for long-term lets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14363/26]
• 2026-02-24
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the formal review of the housing assistance payment scheme will conclude; when a revised HAP scheme will be introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14664/26]
• 2026-02-24
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the engagement he has had with local authorities on developing a protocol to allow households fleeing domestic, sexual and gender-based violence to transfer time spent on a social housing waiting list to another local authority; to provide details of the number of meetings he has had; the dates of the meetings and attendees; when the protocol will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14665/26]
• 2026-02-24
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount spent on second hand acquisitions by each local authority, the number of properties acquired, by local authority, in each of the years 2023 to 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14666/26]
• 2026-02-17
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total amount allocated to each local authority for tenant-in-situ in 2024 and 2025; the total amount spent by each local authority, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12325/26]
• 2026-02-17
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the exempted development guidelines for residential development will be brought into force; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12666/26]
• 2026-02-17
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of builders who have signed up to the statutory register under the Regulation of Providers of Building Works and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2022, broken down by year since 2014, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12872/26]
• 2026-02-12
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on the implementation of the commitment in Delivering Homes, Building Communities to remove the blanket ban on pets in apartments; when this measure will be applied to the private rental market; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11572/26]
• 2026-02-11
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he will publish the National planning statement to support short term lets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10892/26]
• 2026-01-29
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans to provide a consolidated version of the electoral Acts, in particular the heavily amended 1992 Act; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7043/26]
• 2026-01-29
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on the appointment of a permanent head of the housing activation office; his plans to underpin the office with legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7064/26]
• 2026-01-29
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the test stage of the Díon project is complete; whether Phase 1 of the system is ready; when and if deployment of the new system will begin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7065/26]
• 2026-01-28
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will consider offering interest free loans to local authorities to allow for the installation of solar panels on local authority owned houses whereby the panels would be owned by the local authority, who could use the credit for unused energy sold back to the grid to pay down the loan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6674/26]
• 2026-01-27
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will expand the scope of the septic tank grants from local authorities to cover larger geographical areas in order for more rural homeowners to avail of it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5466/26]
• 2026-01-27
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if a homeowner can request an inspection of their septic tank by local authorities if they believe it to be non-compliant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5467/26]
• 2026-01-27
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when Limerick City and County Council will receive clarification from his Department on their tenant-in-situ funding for 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5592/26]
• 2026-01-27
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of rezoning requests received by each local authority, in tabular form; the proposed date of adoption by each local authority under the guidelines of the first revision of the national planning framework; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6273/26]
• 2026-01-27
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will publish the advice received from the Data Protection Commissioner in relation to the compilation of the rent register as part of the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6523/26]
• 2026-01-22
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the assessment and modelling he and his Department have carried out in the context of the residential tenancies (amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2025 on rent levels in the private rental market; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4936/26]
• 2026-01-21
  LOBBY
  Cormac McKay Housing

  • Housing Stock Rehabilitation and Allocation Bill 2026
• 2026-01-21
  LOBBY
  ActionAid Ireland Justice and Equality

  • Research launch invite sent to relevant politicians who cover either housing or migration in their brief
• 2026-01-21
  LOBBY
  Ibec Economic Development and Industry

  • Communicate the impact of the housing shortage for businesses in the Experience Economy and highlight potential impact of proposed regulation for the sector.
• 2026-01-21
  LOBBY
  Clúid Housing Housing

  • Debt levels in the sector
• 2026-01-21
  LOBBY
  Construction Defects Alliance Housing

  • Remediation Scheme for Apartment Owners affected by Fire and other Defects as well as reform of the law to minimise the chances of such defects occurring in the future
• 2026-01-21
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if ECCE-early years childcare and education services that are 100% State funded and effectively not operating for profit are liable for commercial rates; if so, if his Department will provide or subsidise commercial rates for ECCE services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4935/26]
• 2026-01-20
  LOBBY
  Montague Communications Ltd 2 returns HousingJustice and Equality

  • Remediation Scheme for Apartment Owners affected by Fire and other Defects as well as reform of the law to minimise chance of such defects occurring in the future.
  • Reform of the Multi-Unit Development (MUD) Act
• 2026-01-20
  LOBBY
  Community Creations Limited t/a SpunOut.ie Housing

  • Correspondence regarding recent media coverage, and invitation to meet
• 2026-01-20
  LOBBY
  The Social and Affordable Housing Alliance Housing

  • Outlining the Housing Alliance's priorities for the National Housing Plan
• 2026-01-20
  LOBBY
  The Irish Traveller Movement Justice and Equality

  • Traveller Housing and accommodation, Youth, Employment and Enterprise,Policy Programme implementations, Anti racism education
• 2026-01-19
  LOBBY
  Mercy Law Resource Centre CLG Housing

  • Oireachtas AV Room Briefing on housing and homelessness issues around family reunification in Ireland
• 2026-01-19
  LOBBY
  Healthy Homes Ireland Housing

  • To secure meetings and engage with elected/designated officials in order to communicate the findings of Healthy Homes Ireland's report; 'Our place: Towards Healthier Greener Homes'. Hosted a breakfast forum event to discuss to how Ireland balances the need to build affordable homes at pace with delivering homes that are high quality, focusing on upcoming EU housing policy developments including the recast Energy Performance of Buildings Directive and the European Affordable Housing Plan.
• 2026-01-19
  LOBBY
  Community Law & Mediation Housing

  • Calling for child-centred protections to be embedded in housing legislation, specifically the 1988 Act and for a a robust, open and meaningful public consultation in its review of the 1988 Act.
• 2026-01-16
  LOBBY
  Irish Council for International Students (ICOS) Housing

  • Submitted PQ
• 2026-01-15
  LOBBY
  Threshold Housing

  • Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No.2) Bill 2025
• 2026-01-13
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the timeline on when the boundary review into local electoral areas will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [74261/25]
• 2026-01-13
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the rational for using Eircode routing keys in respect of the upcoming Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 2025 concerning the rent register as opposed to using the Pobal HP deprivation index; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [74601/25]
• 2026-01-08
  LOBBY
  Irish Green Building Council 2 returns Housing

  • On behalf of members to inform on the work of The Irish Green Building Council
  • On behalf of members to inform on the work of Vacant to Vibrant Building Alliance.
• 2025-12-16
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the process for quarry testing; the person or body responsible for sourcing/choosing the samples; whether the testing process will be updated in view of the status of the review of IS465; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [71454/25]
• 2025-12-16
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his Department will run an awareness campaign urging people to come forward if they suspect they have defective concrete in their homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [71455/25]
• 2025-12-11
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will consider introducing an appeals mechanism for tenant-in-situ refusals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [71177/25]
• 2025-12-09
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when each local authority will be required to publish its Housing Delivery Action Plan; the target for the delivery of cost rental and affordable purchase homes by local authorities, approved housing bodies and the Land Development Agency is under Delivering Homes Building Communities from 2025 to 2030; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [69094/25]
• 2025-12-09
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the sectoral reform working group will be established; and if he will list the attendees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [69095/25]
• 2025-12-09
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if Uisce Éireann or the local authority are responsible for foul water accumulations running from public roads into the back gardens of private residences (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [69105/25]
• 2025-12-04
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the criteria considered when the threshold for entry to the Croí Cónaithe scheme was set at 20-units; if a viability study was carried out to ensure that schemes below 20 units are more viable, than those above 20-units; if there is scope for this to be reconsidered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [68979/25]
• 2025-12-02
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if there is difficulty or delays accessing documents dated prior to 2006 held by Tailte Éireann due to asbestos contamination in a building storing them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [67691/25]
• 2025-12-02
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans to conduct an environmental impact assessment in terms of the revised exempted development provisions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [68009/25]
• 2025-12-02
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans to develop a construction specific funding model for the AHB sector to allow the sector to increase its direct delivery capacity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [68097/25]
• 2025-11-25
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the timeframe for the implementation of the recommendations of the approved housing bodies strategic forum report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [65673/25]
• 2025-11-25
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on the development of a single stage approval process for local authority housing developments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [65670/25]
• 2025-11-25
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the specific steps he is taking as part of the Government’s new housing plan to reduce the number of single adults in long term homelessness; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [65671/25]
• 2025-11-25
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of direct build affordable purchase homes which will be delivered within the lifetime of building homes delivering communities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [65672/25]
• 2025-11-25
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans for a draft National Planning Statement to replace the 2025 apartment guidelines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [65674/25]
• 2025-11-18
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he will publish the Bill to introduce new housing reforms in the private rental market; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62784/25]
• 2025-11-18
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when his Department will publish its statement of strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62785/25]
• 2025-11-12
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when a decision will be made on an application for a community centre (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61254/25]
• 2025-11-12
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing; Local Government and Heritage if his Department has a target for the number of build to rent units that it anticipates will be built in Ireland over the next five and ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61919/25]
• 2025-11-06
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Health to outline the engagement she has had with the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage and his Department in order to streamline and speed up the planning and delivery of health infrastructure projects around the statutory planning process; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60795/25]
• 2025-11-04
  LOBBY
  Limerick Chamber Housing

  • Presentation to the Full Council of Limerick City and County Council
• 2025-10-22
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason the Vacant Property Refurbishment Grant was not increased in line with construction inflation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57434/25]
• 2025-10-22
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of housing units that have been realised by local authorities from 1 January 2020 to date in 2025 from the refurbishment/regeneration of vacant and derelict residential buildings and from the adaptive reuse of vacant and derelict non-residential buildings i.e. commercial, industrial or heritage buildings, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57435/25]
• 2025-10-15
  PQ
  Asked Finance

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Finance to outline the number of housing units realised in the cities of Dublin, Cork, Galway, Kilkenny, Limerick and Waterford, by city, that have received tax incentives under the Living Cities initiative since July 2022, all of 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55744/25]
• 2025-10-15
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to outline the number of housing units realised in the cities of Dublin, Cork, Galway, Kilkenny, Limerick and Waterford that have availed of the vacant homes refurbishment grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55745/25]
• 2025-10-14
  PQ
  Asked Finance

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Finance the number of housing units that have been realised from July 2022 to date from projects that received taxation relief under the Living City Initiative in the cities of Dublin, Cork, Galway, Kilkenny and Waterford, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55524/25]
• 2025-10-14
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the measures he intends to bring forward first-time buyers of second-hand homes who cannot access the help-to-buy scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54667/25]
• 2025-10-14
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the date by which he will commence section 587 of the Planning and Development Act 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55433/25]
• 2025-10-14
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of housing units that have been realised from July 2022 to date from projects that availed of the Vacant Homes Refurbishment Grant in the cities of Dublin, Cork, Galway, Kilkenny and Waterford, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55525/25]
• 2025-10-09
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will consider an exemption from planning permission for the installation of bike sheds in front gardens; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54534/25]
• 2025-10-08
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the way in which he intends to ensure the LDA meets its targets with a sustainable source of funding in view of the recent report by the Department of Finance into sustainable funding options for the LDA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53944/25]
• 2025-10-08
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of approved housing body applications currently awaiting approval for cost rental in his Department; the length of time each application is waiting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53938/25]
• 2025-10-08
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on the work of the Strategic Housing Activation Office; when the permanent head of the office will be announced; the powers of the office; if he intends to underpin the office with legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53939/25]
• 2025-10-08
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the engagement he has had with a board (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53941/25]
• 2025-10-08
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the steps he will take to reduce homeless figures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53940/25]
• 2025-10-07
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on the compilation of a central database within his Department of all social and affordable housing capital projects delivered or being delivered under its housing programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53798/25]
• 2025-10-02
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the timeline and action plan for meeting the targets to work towards ending homelessness, as agreed in the Lisbon Declaration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52647/25]
• 2025-10-02
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if work has commenced on developing a national homeless prevention framework; if this framework will be allocated resources in Budget 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52648/25]
• 2025-10-02
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a list of the schemes that are currently, or have previously, come to market under the croí cónaithe cities scheme; the subsidy being paid for each of the homes in these schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52649/25]
• 2025-09-30
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the apartment and duplex defects remediation scheme will be in place and operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51929/25]
• 2025-09-30
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if an Owners Management Company (OMC) will be able to retrospectively apply for funding under the apartment and duplex defects remediation scheme for works already completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51930/25]
• 2025-09-30
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when his Department will announce a new Fire Service Capital Programme for the period 2026 to 2030; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51115/25]
• 2025-09-30
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if a circular will be issued to outline the changes to tenancy laws that are coming into force in March 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51270/25]
• 2025-09-30
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to the publication of the National Development Plan Review, when the towns and cities infrastructure investment fund will commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51284/25]
• 2025-09-19
  LOBBY
  Mercy Law Resource Centre CLG 3 returns Housing

  • Emailto Gerry Kerr, disability rights activist, prior to meeting with Conor Sheehan
  • AV Room Briefing on housing and homelessness issues facing migrants in Ireland
  • AV Room Briefing on Appeal Structure and Follow Up Communications
• 2025-09-19
  LOBBY
  Friends of the Earth Housing

  • Invite to Photo Exhibition on Social Housing Conditions
• 2025-09-19
  LOBBY
  Respond Housing

  • Construction specific funding model for AHBs.A cost recovery model to address legacy issues with CAS/CLSS units.Funding of communal facilities and staffing for large schemes.Expanding access to Cost Rental Homes.CREL funding model should have in-built flexibility.Funding for deep retroftting of S and A housing and fuel poverty.A multidisciplinary approach to address family homelessness.Improve outcomes in Early Learning and School Aged Care
• 2025-09-19
  LOBBY
  Ibec 2 returns Housing

  • New Housing Plan 2025-2030
  • Judicial Review process in Planning Matters
• 2025-09-19
  LOBBY
  Uisce Éireann Public Expenditure and Reform

  • Meeting to discuss urgency of Greater Dublin Drainage, Water Supply Project and housing.
• 2025-09-17
  LOBBY
  Construction Defects Alliance Housing

  • Remediation Scheme for Apartment Owners affected by Fire and other Defects as well as reform of the law to minimise the chances of such defects occurring in the future
• 2025-09-17
  LOBBY
  Montague Communications Ltd Housing

  • Remediation Scheme for Apartment Owners affected by Fire and other Defects as well as reform of the law to minimise chance of such defects occurring in the future.
• 2025-09-17
  LOBBY
  Irish Green Building Council Housing

  • On behalf of members to share initial findings from the 1st report of Bio-Neighbour
• 2025-09-17
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on the construction of a new community centre (details supplied); when the application will be approved to go to Part 8; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47824/25]
• 2025-09-16
  LOBBY
  Focus Ireland Housing

  • Presentation in Leinster House about homeless trends and what role legislators can play in working with us towards ending homelessness
• 2025-09-16
  LOBBY
  Healthy Homes Ireland Housing

  • To secure meetings and engage with elected/ designated officials in order to communicate the findings of Healthy Homes Ireland's report; 'Our place: Towards Healthier Greener Homes'.
• 2025-09-15
  LOBBY
  The Irish Farmers' Association - IFA Agriculture

  • Nitrates Derogation - IFA Spring Lobbying 2025
• 2025-09-15
  LOBBY
  HAIL - Housing Association for Integrated Living Housing

  • Invitation to HAIL Annual Report Launch
• 2025-09-11
  LOBBY
  Simon Communities of Ireland 2 returns Housing

  • Live press release of monthly homeless figures
  • Possible reintroduction of Simon Homeless Prevention Bill
• 2025-09-08
  LOBBY
  Threshold 2 returns Housing

  • Threshold's policy priorities
  • Threshold's Pre-Budget Submission
• 2025-09-08
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage , when a review of the net income limits for social housing supports will next take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46100/25]
• 2025-09-08
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide the details and addresses of all properties in the ownership of the Department that are absolved from paying commercial rates to the relevant local authority of the location that the property is in; to provide a similar list of properties for agencies or bodies under its remit that are also absolved from commercial rates, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46442/25]
• 2025-09-02
  LOBBY
  Mid West Simon Community Housing

  • Changes to funding model for AHB housing delivery.
• 2025-07-29
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to publish in full any correspondence from the Land Development Agency in relation to the changes in design guidelines for apartments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41425/25]
• 2025-07-29
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of times he has met with the RIAI since he was appointed; the list of attendees and the dates of any meetings in relation held; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41451/25]
• 2025-07-29
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of times he has met with the IPI since he was appointed; the list of attendees and the dates of any meetings held; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41452/25]
• 2025-07-29
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of social housing applications, by local authority that have used the section 179A exemption since 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41972/25]
• 2025-07-29
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage following the decision by Limerick city and county council to pause all applications for housing adaptation grants for older people and disabled people, with the exception of housing adaption grants, mobility aid grants and emergency applications under the housing aid for older people, due to a lack of funding; if he will allocate additional funding to ensure that applications currently in the system will be processed in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42017/25]
• 2025-07-29
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount spent by his Department and State bodies under its aegis on travel and subsistence in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42468/25]
• 2025-07-17
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of staff working in Tailte Éireann for each year from 2015 to 2025; the average processing time for an application for each year from 2015 to 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40499/25]
• 2025-07-15
  PQ
  Asked Taoiseach

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [35039/25]
• 2025-07-15
  PQ
  Asked Taoiseach

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [38801/25]
• 2025-07-15
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the new exempted development will go for public consultation; the timeline for implementation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38961/25]
• 2025-07-15
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to confirm if the setting of rents for local authority housing is an executive or a reserved function of local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39022/25]
• 2025-07-02
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of planners employed by An Bord Pleanála, broken down by grade, from 2014 to 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36582/25]
• 2025-07-02
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he intends to introduce an additional Project Tosaigh, with provision for small developers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36588/25]
• 2025-07-01
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on the development of the Government’s housing plan; if it will be published before the summer recess; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35894/25]
• 2025-07-01
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when funding will be released for a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35898/25]
• 2025-07-01
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage whether his Department made a submission to the EU's consultation on an Affordable Housing Plan for Europe; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35896/25]
• 2025-07-01
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on PPP delivery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35897/25]
• 2025-07-01
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the croí cónaithe scheme can be retrospectively applied; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27551/25]
• 2025-07-01
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to outline his plans to rework the croí cónaithe (cities) and STAR schemes to allow them to function more effectively for a wider cohort of developers. [35903/25]
• 2025-07-01
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to set out the schedule and timeline for commencement of each section of the Planning and Development Act 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36583/25]
• 2025-07-01
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on bundles 4, 5, 6 and 7 of the public private partnership social housing projects; whether they will continue as public private partnerships or be dropped; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36579/25]
• 2025-07-01
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will immediately commence section 31 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009, in order to restore rent-setting for local authority housing to a reserved function of elected councillors, as originally intended under the 2009 Act; the reason, in the absence of commencement, each local authority chief executive retains the power to set rents independently—without democratic input—leading to inconsistent policies across the country and a lack of transparency; his views on the recent Galway City Council case, where a proposed 3% rent increase and major reforms to the rent model were presented under executive function without councillor approval; if he will address concerns about these changes being introduced during a time of sustained inflation and hardship for low-income tenants; if the ongoing delay in completing the national rent scheme review still justifies withholding the commencement of section 31 of the 2009 Act; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35236/25]
• 2025-07-01
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he has any plans to create a tracking system with the land registry to enable applicants to monitor the progress of their application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35279/25]
• 2025-07-01
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an updated list of all email and phone lines for use of Oireachtas Members within his Department, including all subsidiary bodies, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35287/25]
• 2025-07-01
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if protections will be added for family home bed and breakfasts not to become commercially rateable properties, allowing them to maintain their family home status and be protected in legislation as non-commercial properties for the purpose of local authority rates, as has been the unofficial position since foundation of the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35363/25]
• 2025-07-01
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the transfer of responsibility for OMCs from the Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration to his Department will happen before the summer recess; if the regulations concerning sinking funds and service charges will be in place by the end of 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35583/25]
• 2025-07-01
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  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]
• 2025-07-01
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  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]
• 2025-07-01
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an updated list of all email addresses and phone lines for use by Oireachtas Members within his Department, including all subsidiary bodies, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36142/25]
• 2025-06-26
  LOBBY
  Limerick Chamber Economic Development and Industry

  • Limerick Chamber Meeting with Deputy Conor Sheehan
• 2025-06-25
  VOTE
  Legislative and Structural Reforms to Accelerate Housing Delivery · 2 divisions

  • ✗ voted against the motion the motion motion passed · 83–69
  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion passed · 82–69
• 2025-06-24
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he is next scheduled to meet the CEO of Gas Networks Ireland. [33521/25]
• 2025-06-24
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of builders that have signed up to the statutory register under the Regulation of Providers of Building Works and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2022, broken down by year since 2014, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33711/25]
• 2025-06-24
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a breakdown of capital investment in housing in 2024 and 2025 respectively by programme, in tabular form; to outline any additional capital investment in housing carried out by local authorities, the LDA and approved housing bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33759/25]
• 2025-06-19
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the Government’s new housing plan will be published; if he will guarantee that it will be published before the Dáil summer recess to allow for immediate debate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33268/25]
• 2025-06-19
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the revised national planning framework will be published; if he will guarantee that it will be published before the Dáil summer recess to allow for immediate debate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33269/25]
• 2025-06-19
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if an application has been submitted by Cork City Council for funding for emergency funding to replace mobile homes/caravans used for Traveller housing damaged during Storm Éowyn; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33274/25]
• 2025-06-18
  VOTE
  Emergency Action on Housing and Homelessness · 2 divisions

  • ✗ voted against the motion the motion motion passed · 83–67
  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion passed · 83–67
• 2025-06-17
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount of the projected €450 million allocated for the croí cónaithe (cities) scheme that has been spent to date; to provide a breakdown, by year, since 2022, and the projected spend in 2025; the number of contracts that have been entered into under the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32716/25]
• 2025-06-17
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of completed apartments that have been delivered to date under the croí cónaithe (cities) scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32717/25]
• 2025-06-17
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a breakdown of the number of approved applications under the croí cónaithe (cities) scheme, and the number of apartments in each and the location of each approved scheme, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32718/25]
• 2025-06-17
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a breakdown of the number of applications received under each call for expressions of interest in the croí cónaithe (cities) scheme; the number that were successful; and of those that were not successful, the number of units in total that those included, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32719/25]
• 2025-06-17
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of applications that have been received under the croí cónaithe (cities) scheme seeking support for apartment delivery in Limerick since the scheme began, covering the number of units in total, and the number of same that have been successful; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32720/25]
• 2025-06-17
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of applications received under the croí cónaithe (cities) scheme seeking support for apartment delivery in Galway since the scheme began, covering the number of units in total, and the number of same that have been successful; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32721/25]
• 2025-06-17
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of applications received under the Croí Cónaithe (Cities) scheme seeking support for apartment delivery in Waterford since the scheme began, covering the number of units in total, and the number of same that have been successful; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32722/25]
• 2025-06-12
  LOBBY
  Simon Communities of Ireland Housing

  • Meeting to discuss Housing and Homelessness
• 2025-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for a list of all the meetings he and his officials have had with the ESB since he took office, providing dates and attendees for each meeting. [31081/25]
• 2025-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for a list of all the meetings he and his officials have had with the infrastructure unit of the Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, providing dates and attendees for each meeting. [31082/25]
• 2025-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to outline the borrowing capacity of all local authorities combined for the years 2020 to 2025, in tabular form. [31083/25]
• 2025-06-11
  VOTE
  Vacant Council Housing · 3 divisions

  • ✗ voted against the motion the motion motion passed · 87–69
  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion passed · 87–69
  • ✓ voted for a sub-amendment motion failed · 69–87
• 2025-06-10
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his view on considering the inclusion of critical infrastructure such as water treatment plants in the new exempted development regulations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30445/25]
• 2025-06-10
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if regulations dealing with service charges and sinking funds, which were drafted in 2022, will be implemented before the end of 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30463/25]
• 2025-06-10
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the Housing Agency will commence regulating the owner management company sector as promised in the Programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30464/25]
• 2025-06-10
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the EU legislation that requires transposition into Irish law and awaiting referral to an Oireachtas committee; to provide a timeline for this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30626/25]
• 2025-06-10
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the income criteria for cost rental will be reviewed in line with the Programme for Government commitment to ensure sufficient cohorts of tenants will qualify for the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30627/25]
• 2025-06-10
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to the Programme for Government Commitment to earmark certain cost rental units for key local workers to outline the progress that has been made on this to date; to define a key local worker; the key local workers that will qualify; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30628/25]
• 2025-06-10
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the Programme for Government Commitment to establish statutory timelines for the RTB and enhanced enforcement powers granted to the RTB will be implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30629/25]
• 2025-06-10
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the Programme for Government Commitment to establish a cost rental version of the repair and lease scheme will be implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30630/25]
• 2025-06-10
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the Programme for Government Commitment to launching a new, comprehensive starter-home programme across the public, private and approved housing body, AHB, sector will be realised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30631/25]
• 2025-06-10
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when work on translating revised national housing targets into local, tenure-specific targets which was reported as ongoing and at an advanced stage will be completed and published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30632/25]
• 2025-06-10
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of WTE staff in his Department, by grade, at the end of May 2024 and 2025; the number of vacancies, by grade, at the end of May 2024 and 2025; the number of staff, by grade, on career break; the number of staff, by grade, on career break for more than five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30634/25]
• 2025-06-10
  PQ
  Asked Justice

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration when responsibility for the Multi-Unit Developments Act 2011 will move from the Department of Justice to the Department of Housing, as set out in the Programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30462/25]
• 2025-05-27
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of vacant local authority houses in each local authority area in each of the years 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26997/25]
• 2025-05-27
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when funding will be released for a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27487/25]
• 2025-05-27
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he intends to review and consolidate the four stage approval process for the Social Housing Investment Programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27488/25]
• 2025-05-27
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to outline the work, scope and membership of the housing activation industry group within the Strategic Housing Activation Office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27490/25]
• 2025-05-27
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to outline the work, scope and membership of the housing activation delivery group within the Strategic Housing Activation Office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27491/25]
• 2025-05-27
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of applications under the cost rental equity loan scheme approved by his Department or relevant agencies in 2025 to date; the sponsor and location of each approved application; the number of units in each; the level of approved funding for each; the date of submission and the date of approval, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27492/25]
• 2025-05-27
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of times he has met with the new strategic infrastructure unit in the Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Services, Reform and Digitalisation since its inception; to provide a breakdown of Departments and agencies that were present at each meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27672/25]
• 2025-05-27
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on a single deferential rent scheme for local authority tenancies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27674/25]
• 2025-05-21
  LOBBY
  Ibec Housing

  • Housing Policy
• 2025-05-20
  LOBBY
  Clúid Housing 2 returns Housing

  • Tackling high gearing levels experienced by Approved Housing Bodies delivering social housing and ensuring sufficient funding for cost-rental housing
  • Discussion of challenges faced by AHBs to raise awareness in Government
• 2025-05-20
  LOBBY
  Healthy Homes Ireland Housing

  • To secure meetings and engage with elected/ designated officials in order to communicate the findings of Healthy Homes Ireland's report; 'Our place: Towards Healthier Greener Homes'.
• 2025-05-20
  LOBBY
  Montague Communications Ltd 2 returns Housing

  • Tackling high gearing levels experienced by Approved Housing Bodies delivering social housing and ensuring sufficient funding for cost-rental housing
  • Remediation Scheme for Apartment Owners affected by Fire and other Defects as well as reform of the law to minimise chance of such defects occurring in the future.
• 2025-05-20
  LOBBY
  Construction Defects Alliance Housing

  • Redress Scheme for Apartment Owners affected by Fire and other Defects as well as reform of the law to minimise the chances of such defects occurring in the future
• 2025-05-16
  LOBBY
  Threshold Housing

  • Rent Setting
• 2025-05-15
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to outline the current and future funding of Uisce Éireann, whether additional capital funding will be allocated following the revelation that the €1 billion announced as part of budget 2025 was not for additional capital investment; what additional funding the Government intends to provide to cover the shortfall from this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24509/25]
• 2025-05-15
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for his assessment of the number of commencements for the first quarter of 2025; what measures his Department is taking to address this number and furthermore the measures his Department is taking to address uncommenced planning, particularly in relation to apartments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24508/25]
• 2025-05-15
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the review into rent pressure zones will be published; what measures he will take to safeguard renters in the private rental market; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24504/25]
• 2025-05-15
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to outline the process for the establishment of the strategic housing activation office; to detail how the office will sit within the structures of his Department and whether the office will be underpinned by legislation; to provide the staffing complement of the office, including the number of people seconded from his Department, the recruitment process for the chief of the office and when a successful candidate will be appointed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24686/25]
• 2025-05-15
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of vacant council houses, broken down by local electoral area, for 2022, 2023 and 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24974/25]
• 2025-05-14
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to outline the current and future status of Uisce Éireann; whether additional capital funding will be allocated following the revelation that the €1 billion announced as part of Budget 2025 was not for additional capital investment; to outline the additional funding Government intend to provide to cover the shortfall from this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24503/25]
• 2025-05-14
  VOTE
  Housing and Critical Infrastructure · 2 divisions

  • ✗ voted against the motion the motion motion passed · 83–66
  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion passed · 82–66
• 2025-05-13
  LOBBY
  Focus Ireland 3 returns Housing

  • Homeless Policy - EU Count project
  • Homeless Policies -
  • Briefing with Housing Opposition Spokespeople on the EU Count
• 2025-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a breakdown of the amount allocated to each local authority for the tenant-in-situ scheme in 2023 and 2024 and the amount drawn down by each local authority for this scheme, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23706/25]
• 2025-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a breakdown of the number of inspectors for private rental properties for each local authority for the years 2023 and 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23707/25]
• 2025-05-07
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the funding streams and grants that may be available for a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22265/25]
• 2025-04-29
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to consider setting up a roving workforce to assist local authorities bring vacant housing stock back into use; if he will consider a local authority (details supplied) as a pilot for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18668/25]
• 2025-04-10
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage following the Taoiseach’s recent announcement that will be appointed imminently, the powers the Housing Czar will have (details supplied) ; the function of the position; the remuneration for the position; the breakdown of the appointment process; the qualifying criteria; the person or body that carried out the appraisals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18204/25]
• 2025-04-10
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 56 of 20 March 2025, if he will provide an updated and more detailed reply to the question (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18205/25]
• 2025-04-08
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the breakdown of the funding allocated to each local authority under the void scheme for refurbishing vacant local authority homes, from 2022 to 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16668/25]
• 2025-04-02
  VOTE
  Housing Emergency Measures · 2 divisions

  • ✗ voted against the motion the motion motion passed · 90–72
  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion passed · 88–72
• 2025-04-01
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of short-term lets granted planning permission in 2024, broken down by county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15815/25]
• 2025-04-01
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of short-term lets granted planning permission in 2024, broken down by county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15815/25]
• 2025-03-27
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of granted but not commenced planning applications for multi-unit apartment developments since 2020, by local authority, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14810/25]
• 2025-03-27
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he intends to extend the remit of vacant homes officers in local authorities, with a specific focus on bringing vacant commercial units back into use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14811/25]
• 2025-03-20
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to confirm if he intends to review the housing completion target for 2025; the number of new homes his Department estimates will now be completed in 2025; the additional measures he plans to take to increase housing construction; the engagement he has had with the Department of Finance and Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform, respectively, on new taxation and expenditure measures to boost delivery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12698/25]
• 2025-03-20
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for a timeline and action plan for meeting the targets to work towards ending homelessness, as agreed in the Lisbon Declaration; the additional policy measures he intends to take; if he will consider amending the Housing Act 1988 to oblige local authorities to take into account the best interests of a homeless child, as outlined in the Housing (Homeless Families) Bill 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12699/25]
• 2025-03-20
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of tenant in situ properties acquired in 2024; the number he expects to be completed in 2025; to provide a breakdown of the €265 million announced for housing acquisitions, including unit allocation, by local authority; if the allocation of funding for tenant in situ includes funding for refurbishments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12702/25]
• 2025-03-20
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to confirm when he will establish the Strategic Housing and Infrastructure Delivery Office, as outlined in the Programme for Government; if the office will be underpinned by legislation or sit within the existing structures of his Department; if he has developed the criteria and detailed job description for the chief of the office; what the expected remuneration or public service grade of the position will be; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12701/25]
• 2025-03-20
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the local democracy task force will be convened; if he intends to review the number and distribution of councillors across local authorities; if there will be a review of the boundaries used for local authority elections in advance of the next local elections; his timeline for the establishment of town councils; if there will be separate elections for those councils; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12703/25]
• 2025-03-19
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will revise current housing policies to ensure fairness for older individuals who have contributed to society throughout their lives, specifically, many retirees who only become eligible for placement on the housing waiting list once their income drops upon retirement, a situation which forces them to face unaffordable market rental rates and wait times of up to 10 years for social housing; if he will establish a dedicated mechanism that prioritises and expedites access to affordable and social housing for retirees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10838/25]
• 2025-03-19
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a breakdown of the €265 million approved for housing acquisitions in 2025, by housing programme; the amount approved in 2023 and 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10880/25]
• 2025-03-19
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of units local authorities will be able to acquire under the tenant-in-situ scheme in 2025; if each local authority has been provided with the numbers each can acquire; if not, when that will be outlined; the amount in total allocated for the tenant-in-situ scheme in 2025; the amount approved in 2023 and 2024, in tabular form; the amount allocated to each local authority; the total number of homes acquired in each of those years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10881/25]
• 2025-03-19
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage how many applications under the cost rental equity loan scheme are under consideration by his Department or relevant agencies; the number of housing units associated with each application; the location of each; the value of funding requested; the date on which each application was submitted, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12658/25]
• 2025-03-19
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage how many applications under the cost rental equity loan scheme have been approved by his Department or relevant agencies in 2024, and in 2025, respectively; the sponsor and location of each approved application; the number of units in each; the level of approved funding for each; the date of submission and the date of approval, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12659/25]
• 2025-03-19
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the budget allocation for the cost rental equity loan scheme in 2024; how much was used; the allocation for 2025; the current available amount outstanding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12660/25]
• 2025-03-19
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the budget allocation for the capital advance leasing facility scheme in 2024; how much was used; the allocation for 2025; the current available amount outstanding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12661/25]
• 2025-03-19
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage how many applications under the capital advance leasing facility scheme, CALF, have been approved by his Department or relevant agencies in 2024 and in 2025, respectively; the sponsor and location of each approved application; the number of units in each; the value of funding provided; the date of submission and the date of approval; when local authorities have been reimbursed for the CALF moneys, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12662/25]
• 2025-03-19
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage how many applications under the capital advance leasing facility are currently under consideration by his Department; the number of housing units associated with each application; the location of each; the requested funding level; the date on which each application was submitted by a local authority, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12663/25]
• 2025-03-19
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage how many applications under the capital assistance scheme are currently under consideration by his Department; the number of housing units associated with each application; the location of each; the stage of the process each is at; the date on which each application was submitted and the estimated value/cost of each, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12664/25]
• 2025-03-19
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the budget allocation for the capital assistance scheme in 2024; how much was used; how many housing units it supported; the allocation for 2025; the current available amount outstanding, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12665/25]
• 2025-03-19
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the social and affordable housing completion figures for 2024 will be published; the number of social housing, cost rental and local authority affordable housing units, respectively, constructed in 2024; to provide a breakdown of each, by local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12696/25]
• 2025-03-06
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to list the social and affordable housing projects that have been approved since 1 January 2025 and to provide a breakdown by delivery stream (details supplied), in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10316/25]
• 2025-03-04
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to list all the agencies and organisations that he has met with in his first thirty days in office, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9041/25]
• 2025-02-25
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the actions that will be taken by Government and local authorities to ensure the housing completion targets of 41,000 by the end of 2026 and up to 60,000 per year by 2029 and 2030 will be reached; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7643/25]
• 2025-02-25
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status and locations of the over 10,000 applications under the vacant homes renovation scheme; the reason there were only 867 applications in 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7644/25]
• 2025-02-25
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the creation of the Building Standards Regulatory Authority; the role and powers of the authority; if it will be part of An Bord Pleanála; when the legislation will be scheduled for debate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7645/25]
• 2025-02-25
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of people who have taken up a cost rental equity loan, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7646/25]
• 2025-02-25
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason for the underspend of €120 million in Exchequer spending on homelessness in 2024 after the supplementary budget increase of €143 million; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7647/25]
• 2025-02-25
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the work and remit of the central housing supply unit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7648/25]
• 2025-02-25
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the progress made by the local authority stock management policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7649/25]
• 2025-02-25
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason most of the projects approved under the local infrastructure housing activation fund have not been delivered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7650/25]
• 2025-02-25
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason for the delay in the completion of projects under the local authority mortgages and that local infrastructure housing activation fund as evidenced by only 15 of 24 projects being completed since 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7651/25]
• 2025-02-25
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of vacant home refurbishment applications received and drawn down in 2024, broken down by local authority, in tabular form; the total spend on this scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7653/25]
• 2025-02-19
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of vacant property refurbishment grants drawn down in 2023 and 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6486/25]
• 2025-02-19
  VOTE
  Housing Crisis · 2 divisions

  • ✗ voted against the motion the motion motion passed · 88–69
  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion passed · 88–69
• 2025-02-12
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when local authorities will receive their local authority tenant-in-situ allocation for 2025; the amount that has been allocated to each local authority for 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4988/25]
• 2025-02-12
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the successor housing plan to Housing for All will be published as outlined in the Programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4989/25]
• 2025-02-12
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will publish a social housing Act; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4990/25]
• 2025-02-12
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Conor Sheehan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he intends to revise the income limits for social housing eligibility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4991/25]
• 2025-02-12
  VOTE
  Housing Policy · 2 divisions

  • ✗ voted against the motion the motion motion passed · 91–73
  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion passed · 91–73