Eoin Ó Broin — Watch Them Work

2026-03-27

LOBBY

ActionAid Ireland 2 returns Justice and Equality

Meeting with politicians regarding the finding of a paper looking at the expereince of lone parents trying to access housing post Direct Provision.
Follow up request to attend an event focused on challenges facing lone parents in direct provision.

2026-03-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average length of time it took SHIP construction projects to complete the four-stage approval process for those projects that were delivered in 2025; and the breakdown of the average length of time it took to pass through stage 1 approval, planning, design approval, cost appraisal, procurement and construction. [23315/26]

2026-03-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of SHIP construction single stage social housing applications that have been received to date; and the breakdown by local authority area, number schemes and number of units per scheme. [23316/26]

2026-03-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the proposed changes to procurement SHIP, CALF and CAS turnkey approvals as part of the shift from forward purchasing to forward funding models for delivering social housing. [23317/26]

2026-03-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the changes he is currently bringing forward or intends to bring forward arising from the approved housing body strategic review, in tabular form. [23318/26]

2026-03-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the methodology currently being used to determine the social housing targets for each local authority area; the data sources used; the assumptions underpinning the methodology; and the rational for the targets that are to be set. [23319/26]

2026-03-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of funding applications submitted by Laois County Council under the Housing Infrastructure Investment Fund (HIIF) for the proposed roundabout at the junction of Dublin Road and Collier's Lane, Portlaoise, and the Borris Road to Dublin Road Urban Distributor Road; the total funding sought for these projects; the timeline for a decision on these applications; and when it is anticipated that funding will be approved and construction can commence, given that these projects have been identified as critical infrastructure to enable the delivery of housing in Portlaoise and have been approved since 2009. [22997/26]

2026-03-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of UDZ designation requests received by his Department since he invited applications in June 2025; to provide a list of each request including location and size of the land in question; and to provide an update on each request. [21619/26]

2026-03-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if there are any circumstances in which the vacant property refurbishment grant can be paid out to a successful applicant prior to the completion of the overall refurbishment of the property; for example, whether the grant can be used to cover initial portion of refurbishment works with the owner funding the remainder themselves. [21701/26]

2026-03-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a copy of Circular N3/92 of 7 February 1992, Counteracting Social Segregation in Housing. [21833/26]

2026-03-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a list of all Section 42 (1A) Planning and Development Act extensions that have been applied for and granted with details of each application including, the location, and number of residential units, in tabular form.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22027/26]

2026-03-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of, and average cost per unit, of new build social housing delivered in 2025 by SHIP construction, SHIP turnkey, CALF construction, CALF turnkey, CAS construction, CAS turnkey, Local Authority Part V and AHB Part V and PPP, in tabular form. [19889/26]

2026-03-18

PQ

Asked Children

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to confirm whether there is no housing coordinator in disability services in a specific CHO (details supplied); the length of time the role is vacant; if the vacancy is as a result of a lack of funding as advised to service users; the alternative route in place in order to facilitate engagement with local authorities on behalf of service users; the way in which parents of adults with disabilities can access the alternative contact person; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18833/26]

2026-03-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans to do to address the month on month rises in homelessness. [18167/26]

2026-03-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans to address the unaffordability of cost rents. [18168/26]

2026-03-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on the funding for inner-city flat complex regeneration in Dublin. [17587/26]

2026-03-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on the delivery of affordable homes in Poolbeg West SDZ. [17588/26]

2026-03-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on the operation of the interim fire safety defects remediation scheme. [17589/26]

2026-03-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on his plans for the Youth Homeless Strategy post-2026. [17590/26]

2026-03-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans for reducing the rents in cost rental accommodation to reduce the percentage of applicants excluded on affordability grounds. [17591/26]

2026-03-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of applications for housing delivery office infrastructure which were received by close of deadline on 27 February 2026; the breakdown of those applications by local authority area, amount of funding requested in each application, and total number of housing units that would be activated by each application. [17921/26]

2026-03-03

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of active HAP tenancies with a breakdown by local authority area and an average HP payment per month in each local authority area, in tabular form. [16685/26]

2026-03-03

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the annual spend by his Department on the tenant-in-situ scheme for each year from 2020 to 2025; and the number of units purchased under this scheme in each year, in tabular form. [16693/26]

2026-03-03

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a list of all tier 3 and tier 2 AHBs, stating each AHB’s total owned social and cost rental housing stock, in tabular form. [17147/26]

2026-02-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the lead authority performance reports for Quarter 3 and Quarter 4 2025 will be published; and to give a commitment to include new child presentations into homelessness in these reports including a cumulative figure for the period from 2016 to Quarter 4 2025. [15733/26]

2026-02-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if a private home purchaser can combine the first home scheme with the croí cónaithe cities scheme. [14199/26]

2026-02-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide the STAR allocations to each organisation that has been awarded equity payments under this scheme, with a breakdown by scheme and amount of STAR awarded, in tabular form; and the number of applications from private investors and, separately, the LDA, that have not progressed or have been refused to date. [14570/26]

2026-02-24

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Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the options available, if any, for individuals with disabilities who work full time and as a consequence earn too much to access the housing adaptation grant for older people and people with disabilities; but who require immediate adaptations to their home in order to remain independent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15163/26]

2026-02-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total expenditure on social housing acquisitions for each year from 2020 to 2025 and the allocation for 2026; and the number of units purchased with this funding in each year with a breakdown by category (i.e. tenant-in-situ, vacant acquisition etc.), in tabular form. [13890/26]

2026-02-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a breakdown of social housing acquisition funding for 2026 for each local authority. [13891/26]

2026-02-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on the work of the Housing Activation Office, including the number of applications for funding it has received from which local authorities and for what infrastructure; and to provide an update on the progress of each application. [13892/26]

2026-02-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage whether local authorities can fund attic conversations for their own housing stock from their capital funding to provide additional bedroom space for families experiencing overcrowding and who would otherwise have to apply for a social housing transfer to a larger home. [13893/26]

2026-02-12

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to state, with respect to a proposed change to a local authorities section 48 development contribution scheme review (details supplied), whether the Department has issued any instruction, guidance or circular on the charging of development contributions to cost rental and affordable purchase homes to local authorities; and his views on whether the proposal will impact on the rents and house prices of the homes involved should the proposed amendment to the scheme proceed. [11503/26]

2026-02-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage whether he accepts that introducing revised engineering qualification requirements in July 2025, while being aware that serving local authority engineers would not meet the new eligibility criteria and without publishing any quantified workforce impact assessment, represents a failure of workforce planning; whether he will now publish the number of engineers whose career progression has been blocked as a direct consequence of these changes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9790/26]

2026-02-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to state the terms of reference for the national water conservation working group; and to provide details of their meeting and work schedule for 2026. [9792/26]

2026-02-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the interim fire safety remediation scheme including the number of schemes that have received a grant award and the value of each grant; the number of applications and units involved in those applications; and for an update on the progress of those projects not designated as pathfinders. [8807/26]

2026-02-04

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when a person (details supplied) will have access to a place finders service. [7414/26]

2026-02-04

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on the 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; when the protocol will commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8457/26]

2026-01-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total expenditure by his Department on social housing acquisitions in 2025; and to provide a breakdown of the number of homes purchased with this funding, by type including tenant-in-situ, vacant homes acquisition, housing first, age-friendly right sizing, and so on. [7144/26]

2026-01-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total capital allocation for social housing acquisitions for 2026. [7145/26]

2026-01-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage whether the income accrued by social housing tenants renting a room in their property and availing of the rent a room tax relief is also disregarded for the purposes of calculating the social housing tenants differential rent. [7202/26]

2026-01-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the research or evidence he has that demonstrates than an increase in high-cost private rental accommodation will, over time, bring down rents. [6639/26]

2026-01-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the new developer provided infrastructure proposal for private residential developments of 40 or less homes will be available for developers; and if the expectation is that the cost of this infrastructure will be passed on to the home buyers at the point of purchase of the homes. [6640/26]

2026-01-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will consider allowing local authorities to include attic conversions in their own social housing stock to meet the needs of existing tenants as an alternative to tenants having to apply for transfers to larger homes as their household size increases. [6930/26]

2026-01-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage how and when homeowners in receipt of a grant award under the defective concrete block grant scheme can avail of the increased grant award levels as set out in the Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks (Amendment) Act 2025. [5945/26]

2026-01-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to confirm if the funding for the recently announced infrastructure fund to be administered by the housing delivery office, will be funded under REV programme subhead A21; to confirm that this replaced the local infrastructure housing activation fund; and the way in which the administration of this fund will differ from its LIHAF predecessor. [6520/26]

2026-01-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to confirm if his proposed changes to the rent pressure zone rules will result in the majority of private rental tenants experiencing significant rent increases within a period of four years. [5324/26]

2026-01-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of social housing acquisitions in 2024 and 2025, by acquisition type, including tenant-in-situ, vacant homeless acquisition, housing first, older persons, and so on. [4944/26]

2026-01-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will consider extending the operation of the fresh start principle to separated or divorced partners seeking to buyout their former partner from the family home with the assistance of the local authority mortgage. [4942/26]

2026-01-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on his Department’s involvement in attempts to deliver the legally required volume of affordable homes in the Poolbeg West SDZ. [4941/26]

2026-01-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will review the social housing income thresholds to ensure those in need of social housing support are not unfairly excluded. [4940/26]

2026-01-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of new Traveller-specific homes delivered in 2025; and the number to be delivered in 2026. [4943/26]

2026-01-21

LOBBY

Cormac McKay Housing

Housing Stock Rehabilitation and Allocation Bill 2026

2026-01-21

LOBBY

Friends of the Earth Housing

Support for Minimum BER Standards Bill

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

Q4PR Housing

Discussion on delivery of housing

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

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

LOBBY

Clúid Housing Housing

Allocation of Govt. budget to AHB/social housing measures

2026-01-21

LOBBY

Rehab Group Public Expenditure and Reform

Rehab's Pre Budget Submission

2026-01-21

LOBBY

Dublin Chamber of Commerce Transport

Chamber Budget Day correspondence

2026-01-20

LOBBY

Cairn Homes plc Housing

General conversations with various DPOs (listed below) on the Irish residential construction industry and the broader housing market.

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

Threshold Housing

Rights of licensees

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

2026-01-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on the 'owner occupier guarantee', as set out in the Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Act 2021, and on the number of houses and duplexes that have been covered by the relevant provision of the Act. [3963/26]

2026-01-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of applicants for the defective concrete block grant scheme in each county in which the scheme is operational; the progress of each applicant though each stage of the scheme; the number of applicants who have drawn down payments at each stage; the number of applicants who have fully drawn down their full grant in each county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4044/26]

2026-01-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 1448 of 13 January 2026, and the reply if he will consider further correspondence (details supplied); to provide a reply to queries raised regarding new declared qualifications for engineering services in local authorities.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4390/26]

2026-01-19

LOBBY

Fold Ireland Housing

Attended an Oireachtas Committee meeting on 1st October 2025

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.

2026-01-19

LOBBY

IRISH RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES REIT plc Housing

Discussion on Delivery of Housing

2026-01-18

LOBBY

Godland Group Housing

Introduction to a housing initiative focused on affordable housing through a new alternative, debt-free mortgage model. The package includes approximately €50–60 billion in foreign direct investment to support the delivery of c.350,000 affordable, sustainable homes.

2026-01-16

LOBBY

Simon Communities of Ireland 4 returns Housing

Coffee Dock Meet and Greet in Leinster House
Meeting with Eoin Ó Brion
IHPG presentation to Joint Committee on Housing
AV Room

2026-01-16

LOBBY

ENERGY CLOUD Company Limited by Guarantee (CLG) Energy and Natural Resources

Written Submission and Presentation to Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage

2026-01-15

LOBBY

Threshold 3 returns Housing

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No.2) Bill 2025
Exempted Development legislation
Housing and rented housing legislation and public policy

2026-01-15

LOBBY

SAFE Ireland National Social Change Agency CLG T/A SAFE Ireland Housing

National Women's Council of Ireland conference on homelessness and domestic violence, 16th September, Ashling Hotel

2026-01-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on the legal challenge to the 2025 Section 28 guidelines on apartment design standards including an assessment of the impact of the referral of the matter to the European Court of Justice on the use of the NEE standards; and an update on when the National Planning Policy Statement on apartment design standards will be published. [3001/26]

2026-01-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his Department is tracking the number of planning applications submitted using the 2025 section 28 design standards for apartments; if so, to confirm the number of such planning applications lodged to date; and the total number of units involved in these applications, separating out new applications from applications to change existing grants of permission. [3002/26]

2026-01-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average cost of social homes delivered in 2025 broken down by delivery stream, including SHIP Construction, SHIP Turnkey, CALF Construction, CALF Turnkey, CAS Construction, CAS Turnkey, and social housing acquisitions. [3003/26]

2026-01-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average cost of affordable homes delivered in 2025 broken down by delivery stream, including cost rental equity loan, affordable purchase scheme and Local Development Agency, LDA, cost rental. [3004/26]

2026-01-14

LOBBY

National Women's Council of Ireland Housing

Invitation to speakers for NWC's Housing and VAW Conference.

2026-01-14

LOBBY

Irish Council for Social Housing Housing

Policy briefing in relation to AHB priorities in 2026 and subsequent years

2026-01-14

LOBBY

Focus Ireland Housing

Roundtable events re. the EU Housing Plan and Irish EU Presidency held at the the Institute of International and European Affairs

2026-01-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage regarding competitions for executive engineer roles in local authorities, the position regarding career progression for engineers already employed in local authority roles with qualifications under the previous eligibility criteria who have relevant experience but who do not hold qualifications under the new criteria; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [74228/25]

2026-01-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a list of all EU infringement enforcement procedures against his Department; the date they were initiated; a description of the infringement/enforcement procedure; and a status update, in tabular form. [74479/25]

2026-01-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on the work of the housing delivery office including its current membership; the number of meetings it has had to date; the dates of those meetings; the actions that have been taken to date including inviting and accepting invitations for infrastructure funding; and to provide an update on any such applications. [1152/26]

2026-01-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total expenditure on social and affordable housing by local authorities, approved housing bodies and the Land Development Agency in 2024 and 2025; and the breakdown, by funding stream and by delivery agent (details supplied). [1153/26]

2026-01-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide clarification to a query regarding engineering qualifications in the Local Government sector (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1521/26]

2026-01-08

LOBBY

Irish Green Building Council 3 returns Housing

On behalf of members to inform on the work of The Irish Green Building Council
On behalf of members to request information on the National Water Conservation Group
On behalf of members to inform on the work of Vacant to Vibrant Building Alliance.

2026-01-05

LOBBY

Construction Industry Federation (CIF) 2 returns Housing

To answer members queries on Housing and Planning supply
Oireachtas Infrastructure meeting

2025-12-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a list of all national planning policy statements currently being prepared by his Department, in tabular form. [73476/25]

2025-12-17

LOBBY

Sue Ryder Foundation Housing

Arranging meetings, emails sent, face to face meetings

2025-12-16

LOBBY

Mercy Law Resource Centre CLG Housing

Wrote to Oireachtas Committee Members Regarding 1988 Act prior to appearing before Committee

2025-12-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on the introduction of a new single stage process for social housing delivery; when this process will be available to local authorities; and the number of applications that have been received under this process to date. [70926/25]

2025-12-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he intends to publish the planning policy statement on short-term letting; and if he will give a commitment to publish the statement in draft form to allow the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing to scrutinise the statement prior to its adoption by Government. [70927/25]

2025-11-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the targets for the delivery of cost rental and affordable purchase homes by local authorities, approved housing bodies and the Land Development Agency under the Government's new housing plan from 2025 to 2030. [66119/25]

2025-11-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason no analysis was conducted by his Department on the impact of his proposed changes to rent pressure zones on rents in the private rental sector. [66121/25]

2025-11-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the way in which his new proposals for developer-provided water and wastewater infrastructure will avoid the problems associated with the policy when it was last in place; and the steps he will take to resolve the around 450 estates currently in limbo due to the failures of this policy previously. [65685/25]

2025-11-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on the exempted development regulations on free standing residential home extensions. [65686/25]

2025-11-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on the implementation of the recommendations of the expert group on Traveller accommodation. [65684/25]

2025-11-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to publish a summary of a report (details supplied) into planning irregularities in County Donegal. [65687/25]

2025-11-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the new measures contained in the housing plan to activate the SME builder developer sector to build more good quality homes for people to buy. [65688/25]

2025-11-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of first home scheme drawdowns, where the home buyer was also availing of help-to-buy, for each year since the first home scheme has been operational. [62755/25]

2025-11-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of help-to-buy drawdowns where the home buyer was also availing of first home scheme for each year since the first home scheme has been operational. [62756/25]

2025-11-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if EU Cohesion Policy Funding has been allocated to any social and affordable housing programmes in his Department. [63230/25]

2025-11-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of cost rental active tenancies, by cost rental providers (details supplied), in tabular form. [62502/25]

2025-11-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of cost rental tenancies, by Local Authority administrative area, in tabular form. [62503/25]

2025-11-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for a breakdown of the 2024 expenditure and 2025 allocation, under sub head A3, by funding stream including SHIP, Land Acquisition fund, development levy waiver refund etc. [62504/25]

2025-11-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on the development of a single stage approval process for social and affordable housing delivery. [62505/25]

2025-11-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for a breakdown of average social housing new build costs for 2024, for each of the schemes used to fund social housing, including SHIP construction, SHIP turnkey, CALF construction, CALF turnkey, CAS turnkey, CALF turnkey, to include the revenue component and full unit cost for the CALF schemes, by local authority area. [62506/25]

2025-11-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the means by which mixed tenure social and affordable development approvals are dealt with by his Department. [62507/25]

2025-11-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of local authorities that have responded to Circular 2025/01 regarding designation of UDZs issues on 6 June 2025; and if he has received any requests for UDZ designation from any local authority. [62516/25]

2025-11-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total amount provided to local authorities for vacant social housing acquisitions in each of the years 2020 to 2024 and to date in 2025; and the number of such acquisitions purchased in each year. [62517/25]

2025-11-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide the dates on which meetings took place of the Housing Activation Office; the Housing Activation Delivery Group and the Housing Activation Industry Group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62518/25]

2025-11-12

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total funding allocation for social housing acquisitions in 2026. [61213/25]

2025-11-12

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of Uisce Éireann's draft capital investment plan 2025-2029, following its submission to the CRU for approval in October 2025. [61299/25]

2025-11-04

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans to publish the draft planning guidelines on short-term letting; and to confirm that he will consult with the Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage, before finalising the guidelines. [58132/25]

2025-11-04

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of persons within the National Parks and Wildlife Service who currently hold authorised person status under the Wildlife Acts 1976–2018 and authorised officer status under the European Communities (Birds and Natural Habitats) Regulations 2011, for each year since 2019, in tabular form; and the number of those authorised persons or officers who initiated prosecutions for wildlife crime for each year since 2019, in tabular form. [58184/25]

2025-11-04

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of times the National Parks and Wildlife Service, acting as the primary lead agency responsible for the enforcement of the European Communities (Birds and Natural Habitats) Regulations 2011, acted as the lead investigators into alleged breaches of this legislation. [58185/25]

2025-11-04

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he has written to local authorities requesting them to designate urban development zones in their administrative area; and if so, to provide a summary of the contents of the letter and the date on which it was issued. [58648/25]

2025-10-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on his Department's review of social housing income eligibility guidelines including the treatment and possible disregard of payments or part of payments such as child maintenance and family income supplement. [57545/25]

2025-10-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on the work of the Water Conservation Working Group ; the members of this group; the dates on which it met in the past 24 months; and a report on the discussions and outcomes from these meetings. [57391/25]

2025-10-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on the transposition of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive, 2024 revision; and the date on which the directive will be fully transposed into domestic law. [57392/25]

2025-10-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on the interim fire safety remediation scheme; the data on the amount of funding which has been approved for each pathfinder project; the amount of work which has been drawn down; and whether fire safety remediation work has actually occurred. [57395/25]

2025-10-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on the pathfinder projects for retrospective payment to owners management companies for building defects remediation work carried out and funded by the owners. [57396/25]

2025-10-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage with respect to the Social Housing Support Household Means Policy 2021, the criteria with respect to maintenance payments received by an applicant. [57407/25]

2025-10-16

PQ

Asked Finance

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Finance in relation to the reduction in VAT on apartment sales announced as part of Budget 2026, if these reductions will be passed on to approved housing bodies purchasing completed apartments through turnkey and forward purchase arrangements. [56062/25]

2025-10-16

PQ

Asked Finance

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Finance in relation to the VAT reductions on apartment sales announced in Budget 2026, when apartments are delivered through forward funding and direct construction contracts for approved housing bodies, the way in which the benefit of any corporation tax changes on construction expenses will be passed on under such arrangements. [56063/25]

2025-10-16

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on if the office of the planning regulator is holding back housing supply in certain local authorities; if so, to detail which local authorities; when, and the way in which, the office of the planning regulators is impacting their housing supply in this way. [56322/25]

2025-10-16

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the abridged estimates volume for Budget 2026 for Vote 34 including the provisional sub head and programme level allocations. [56323/25]

2025-10-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for a list of all reports commissioned by his Department that have not yet been published, from 2020 to October 2025. [55680/25]

2025-10-14

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a breakdown of the revised estimate subhead A3, local government housing, by Social Housing Investment Programme, land acquisition fund, development levy waiver and any other category for the 2025 allocation and the out turn in each of the years 2020 to 2024, in tabular form. [54742/25]

2025-10-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the actions he intends to take in the coming months to halt the relentless rise in adult and child homelessness and to reduce the number of people presenting as homeless and accelerate the number of exits of persons currently in emergency accommodation. [54228/25]

2025-10-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the action he is taking to tackle high rents in the private rental sector and the increasing unaffordability of rents in the Government-funded cost rental sector. [54230/25]

2025-10-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans for the reform of the Multi-Units Development Act 2011, and related regulations of the property service management agents sector. [53749/25]

2025-10-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he will publish legislation on the multi-unit development defects redress scheme. [53748/25]

2025-10-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he intends to review the targets for and operation of the affordable purchase scheme. [53750/25]

2025-10-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will meet with the Lough Neagh stakeholders group to discuss the current ecological crisis impacting on the lake, and by extension to the sections of the wider river basin management area that fall within the counties under his jurisdiction. [53751/25]

2025-10-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on the proposed change to the exempted development regulations. [53747/25]

2025-10-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total expenditure in 2024 on social and affordable housing funded through SHIP, CALF, CAS, AHF, CREL, AHB borrowing and LDA expenditure, in tabular form. [54052/25]

2025-10-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a list of the legislation he intends to bring forward during the current Dáil session. [52965/25]

2025-10-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to set out the annual expenditure on LIHAF; the total number of homes in each year activated via this measure; the total number of discounted homes delivered each year; and the average value of the discount, in tabular form. [52967/25]

2025-10-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage whether any of the properties bought by the Housing Agency under the cost-rental tenant in situ scheme have been sold on to approved housing boards and have been converted to cost-rental tenancies. [52968/25]

2025-10-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the prohibitions that exist preventing local authorities selling Part V, social housing acquisitions and other social homes purchased from the private market under the tenant purchase scheme; and to list each prohibition and provide a summary of its rationale. [53057/25]

2025-10-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on the strategic review of the approved housing body sector. [53703/25]

2025-10-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on when the scheduled five-year review of the Approved Housing Bodies Regulatory Authority will commence. [53704/25]

2025-10-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on the County And City Management Association review of Section 10 funding; when the review was published; the main recommendations of the review; which of these have been accepted by his Department; and to publish a copy of the review on his Department website. [53808/25]

2025-10-01

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if holders of refugee, subsidiary protection and programme refugee statuses who are applying to access social housing supports are required to show proof of income for the previous 12 months if some of that period was spent in their country of origin; if it is only required to show proof of income from the date they received that status; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52462/25]

2025-09-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the rules governing cost rental eligibility for persons who are officially still on the title deeds of their family home, but have a legal separation or divorce agreement giving their former partner exclusive residential access to the family home. [50923/25]

2025-09-23

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the projected cost and allocation for the temporary waiver of the development levy and water connection charges in 2026. [50042/25]

2025-09-23

PQ

Asked Justice

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if an extension of accommodation will be considered and provided to a person in the short-term (details supplied) until housing supports can be accessed. [49951/25]

2025-09-19

LOBBY

Friends of the Earth 2 returns Housing

Input into Housing Committee Work Programme
Motion on Various Councils on Local Authority Energy Efficiency Programme

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 Housing

Briefing for Sinn Fein representatives, including Housing Spokesperson Deputy Eoin Ó Broin and advisor Miriam Murphy, covering UE funding and expenditure, housing and growth projects, planning and consenting challenges and updates on major projects.

2025-09-19

LOBBY

Mercy Law Resource Centre CLG 2 returns Housing

Letter to Oireachtas Housing Committee
AV Room Briefing on Appeal Structure and Follow Up Communications

2025-09-19

LOBBY

EPIC Empowering People in Care Housing

Engagement with a Public Representative on the DCC Allocations Policy

2025-09-18

LOBBY

Alice Public Relations Housing

Housing Alliance Campaign: focusing on the role Approved Housing Bodies are playing to help solve the housing crisis and their vision for the future

2025-09-18

LOBBY

Lir Communications Ltd Housing

Letter to introduce the ILEA and to request a meeting to discuss industry priorities.

2025-09-18

LOBBY

National Women's Council of Ireland Housing

Violence against women 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

LOBBY

Society of St. Vincent de Paul Housing

Concerns about the rise of homelessne

2025-09-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average cost per unit of new build social housing delivered in 2024 by social housing investment programme, by type (details supplied), in tabular form. [48022/25]

2025-09-16

LOBBY

Irish Congress of Trade Unions Housing

Raise the Roof Rallies

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

HAIL - Housing Association for Integrated Living Housing

Invitation to HAIL Annual Report Launch

2025-09-11

LOBBY

Pontis Advisory Limited Housing

General

2025-09-11

LOBBY

Simon Communities of Ireland 2 returns Housing

Email to Joint Oireachtas Housing Committee on Solutions Re: Homelessness
Email about developing a Simon Homeless Prevention Bill

2025-09-08

LOBBY

Threshold 3 returns Housing

Threshold's policy priorities
Oireachtas Committee Session
Threshold's Pre-Budget Submission

2025-09-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans to increase resources for Tailte Éireann, specifically the hiring of further staff to ensure timely processing of applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45337/25]

2025-09-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the projected capital assistance scheme underspend for 2025. [46838/25]

2025-08-27

LOBBY

National Traveller MABS Housing

NTMABS as a part of a group of civil society organisations working to end energy poverty and ensure warm, affordable homes for all, we are writing to highlight three priority policy areas that the Committee should address in its 2025 work programme.

2025-07-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the final turnout for 2024 for Vote 34, including capital and current expenditure and all subheads and programme level outturns. [41171/25]

2025-07-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to state whether a strategic environmental assessment and-or screening for a strategic environmental assessment and-or an appropriate assessment was carried on the planning design standards for apartments guidelines for planning authorities, 2025, prior to the publication of the guidelines. [41487/25]

2025-07-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to state whether a strategic environmental assessment and-or screening for a strategic environmental assessment and-or an appropriate assessment was carried out on Seanad amendment No. 24 to the Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025, amending Part III of the Act of 2000, to provide for modification of permission for residential development by inserting a new section 44B into the principal Act, and related amendments to the Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2024. [41488/25]

2025-07-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the names, organisations, former responsibilities, current responsibilities and full remuneration, including of secondees, of all appointments to the housing activation office. [41855/25]

2025-07-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total expenditure in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 on social and affordable housing funded through SHIP, CALF, CAS, AHF, CREL, AHB borrowing and LDA expenditure, in tabular form. [41856/25]

2025-07-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to set out the total capital outturn from his Department, in each year for 2020 to 2024, by vote subhead, in tabular form. [42611/25]

2025-07-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the revised population targets as per the revised NPF have been formally communicated to local authorities. [42747/25]

2025-07-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when his revised housing plan will be published. [42748/25]

2025-07-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to give a commitment to publish a summary of the Mulcahy Report into alleged planning irregularities in County Donegal along with recommendations for reform of the planning system to ensure that such irregularities do not happen again in the future. [42749/25]

2025-07-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the breakdown of all affordable housing that is, cost rental and affordable purchase units delivered by local authorities, approved housing bodies and the Land Development Agency with a breakdown by turnkey and construction, in tabular form. [42750/25]

2025-07-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on all European Commission infringement proceedings currently underway related to the functions in his Department; and to provide an update on compliance and fines related to each enforcement action. [42751/25]

2025-07-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on the review of section 10 funded emergency homeless services; and to give a commitment to publish the review conducted by the CCMA. [42752/25]

2025-07-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on the awarding of the Housing First tender in Dublin; and to provide an explanation for the delay in the awarding of this tender. [42753/25]

2025-07-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on the interim fire safety defects scheme, the pilot retrospective building defects scheme and the legislation to underpin the wider building defects redress scheme. [42754/25]

2025-07-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of applicants for the defective concrete block grant scheme in each county in which the scheme is operational; the progress of each applicant though each stage of the scheme; the number of applicants that have drawn down payments at each stage; the number of applicants who have fully drawn down their full grant in each county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42755/25]

2025-07-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of social housing acquisitions that have been bought to date in 2025, with a breakdown by local authority and acquisition type tenant-in-situ, housing first, vacant homeless, and so no; and an average cost, by local authority. [42988/25]

2025-07-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update in the negotiations between his officials, Dublin City Council and a company (details supplied) regarding the delivery of affordable homes in phase 1a of the Poolbeg West SDZ. [43634/25]

2025-07-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average purchase price of homes availing of the vacant property refurbishment grant, broken down by local authority area and the derelict property top up grant, in tabular form. [43635/25]

2025-07-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if local authorities have been issued with the new housing needs demand assessment population and housing targets; and if so, if he will publish them with a breakdown for each local authority, in tabular from. [38966/25]

2025-07-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the powers that have been delegated to the Ministers of State in his Department and to set out what those powers are. [38967/25]

2025-07-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average processing time for stage 1 approvals for applications to the Social Housing Investment Programme received in the past 12 months. [38968/25]

2025-07-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average processing time for stage 1 approvals for applications to the capital advance leasing facility received in the past 12 months. [38969/25]

2025-07-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average processing time for stage 1 approvals for applications to the capital assistance scheme received in the past 12 months. [38970/25]

2025-07-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average processing time for stage 1 approvals for applications to the cost rental equity loan received in the past 12 months. [38971/25]

2025-07-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average processing time for stage 1 approvals for applications to the affordable housing fund received in the past 12 months. [38972/25]

2025-07-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of Ministerial Orders to remove the residential category from zoned land under Section 31 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, in each year from 2020 to 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if he will provide each Ministerial Order, the local authority, the size of the land in hectares, and the permitted density of the residential zoning prior to the coming into force of the Section 31 Ministerial Order. [38973/25]

2025-07-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the breakdown of the affordable purchase and cost rental homes delivered in 2024 by the delivery streams (details supplied); and the average delivery cost per unit, for each of these delivery streams. [39445/25]

2025-07-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a list of all assessments and analyses undertaken by his officials in the preparation of the Planning Design Standards for Apartments, Guidelines for Planning Authorities, 2025, including analysis of the cost reductions per unit of accommodation arising from the revised standards; and to publish these assessments and analyses including the analysis of the cost reduction per unit of accommodation arising from the revised standards. [39561/25]

2025-07-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to list the research papers on which his claim that Irish apartment design standards are the highest in Europe; if this research was produced by his Department; if not, the name of the organisations that undertook this research; and to publish the research on which this claim was made which is being used to justify the new design standards for apartments. [39713/25]

2025-07-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the croi cónaithe cities scheme, by a list of the schemes that have or are coming to market under this scheme; the cash value of the CCC subsidy being applied to the purchase of the homes in each of these schemes; and the way in which the grant and attached clawback is being applied. [37084/25]

2025-07-01

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on the review of section 10 funding for homelessness service providers; and the changes he intends to make to this funding stream, in light of the near financial collapse of an organisation (details supplied) in 2023. [36134/25]

2025-07-01

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on the growing unaffordability of cost-rental schemes funded by his Department; the measures he intends to take to address this growing unaffordability; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36136/25]

2025-07-01

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a date for when his revised housing plan will be completed and published. [35826/25]

2025-07-01

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on his plans to get construction going on the six social housing sites that were part of the now collapsed public private partnership bundle 3. [35822/25]

2025-07-01

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on the increasing unaffordability of cost rental tenancies. [35825/25]

2025-07-01

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on his plans to bring forward amendments to the defective concrete blocks grant scheme. [35823/25]

2025-07-01

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on the delivery of affordable homes in the Poolbeg West SDZ. [35824/25]

2025-07-01

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to state the number of social homes delivered via buy-and-renew in 2024; and the average cost of the delivery of these units to the Exchequer. [35402/25]

2025-07-01

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on social housing PPP bundles 4, 5, 6 & 7 in the context of the decision by the Minister to not proceed with bundle 3. [35715/25]

2025-07-01

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he has received a report from the CCMA on the review of section 10; and to provide an update on whether he intends to review the current deficit funding and competitive tendering that is used to award section 10-funded services. [35716/25]

2025-07-01

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on the rural planning guidelines, Gaeltacht planning guidelines and planning guidelines for the islands. [35993/25]

2025-07-01

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans to publish the Mulcahy report or a summary of the report into planning irregularities in Donegal. [35994/25]

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

2025-06-18

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

2025-06-12

LOBBY

Simon Communities of Ireland Housing

Meeting of Irish Homeless Policy Group

2025-06-12

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on the latest bundle of public private partnerships social housing projects; whether any of the bundle of six projects is being dropped; and if so, where these projects are and the reason why they have been dropped. [31391/25]

2025-06-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a list of all sections of the Planning and Development Act 2024 that have been formally enacted; and the date upon which the enactment took place. [30842/25]

2025-06-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if, in light of the deepening ecological catastrophe engulfing Lough Neagh, and noting that the 2025 fishing season has already been adversely impacted by the onset of blue-green algae pollution, and by a moratorium on commercial fishing, he is willing to meet with a representative group of Lough Neagh stakeholders to discuss how the Government can assist in addressing the catastrophe affecting the lough. [30881/25]

2025-06-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on call 3 for the urban regional development fund, including the number of projects that applied for funding, the number that have received funding, and an update on progress with 1,297 vacant or derelict properties identified by local authorities that were part of the funding applications. [30887/25]

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 Climate

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if his officials have conducted a standalone cost benefit analysis of the risks and opportunities arising from high volumes of the State's electricity being consumed by data centres including but not limited to its negative impact on housing delivery targets and climate targets weighed against potential benefits such as modest levels of employment in data centres and increased corporate tax revenue. [29987/25]

2025-06-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the cost of the additional staff sanctioned to An Bord Pleanála in 2023 and 2024 and the cost of increasing the sanction by a further 30 staff across clerical, administrative and inspector posts. [29382/25]

2025-06-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the cost of the additional staff sanctioned to local authority planning sections in 2024 and 2025; and the cost for every additional 100 staff sanctioned for planning authorities across the same grade as the additional sanctions in 2024 and 2025. [29383/25]

2025-06-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the additional cost to the Exchequer for every additional 1,000 social housing units delivered through the following schemes, SHIP construction, SHIP turnkey, CALF construction, CALF turnkey, CAS construction, CALF turnkey, and social housing acquisition. [29384/25]

2025-06-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the additional cost to the Exchequer for every additional 1,000 affordable housing units delivered through the following schemes, CREL construction, CREL turnkey, AHF construction, and AHF turnkey. [29385/25]

2025-06-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the additional cost of increasing the funding for housing adaptation grants by 25%, 50% and 100%. [29386/25]

2025-06-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the additional cost of increasing the funding for social housing retrofits by 25%, 50% and 100%. [29387/25]

2025-06-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the additional cost of increasing the funding for social housing maintenance including the voids programme by 25%, 50% and 100%. [29388/25]

2025-06-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the additional cost of increasing the funding for estate regeneration by 25%, 50% and 100%. [29389/25]

2025-06-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total expenditure from the CAS budget on domestic violence refuges in 2024; the expected expenditure on such refuges in 2025; and the additional cost of increasing this expenditure by 25%, 50% and 100%. [29391/25]

2025-06-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the additional cost of increasing the funding for defects remediation schemes by 50%, 100% and 150%. [29392/25]

2025-06-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will state the number of SHIP applications that have been submitted to his Department from 1 August 2024 to 28 May 2025; the total number of units involved in these applications; and the total number of applications approved during this period and the number of units involved in these approvals. [29399/25]

2025-06-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will state the number of CALF applications that have been submitted to his Department from 1 August 2024 to 28 May 2025; the total number of units involved in these applications; and the total number of applications approved during this period and the number of units involved in these approvals [29400/25]

2025-06-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will state the number of CAS applications that have been submitted to his Department from 1 August 2024 to 28 May 2025; the total number of units involved in these applications; and the total number of applications approved during this period and the number of units involved in these approvals. [29401/25]

2025-06-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will state the number of CREL applications that have been submitted to his Department from 1 August 2024 to 28 May 2025; the total number of units involved in these applications; and the total number of applications approved during this period and the number of units involved in these approvals. [29402/25]

2025-06-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will state the number of AHF applications that have been submitted to hid Department from 1 August 2024 to 28 May 2025; the total number of units involved in these applications; and the total number of applications approved during this period and the number of units involved in these approvals. [29403/25]

2025-06-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of new Housing First tenancies created in each of the years 2016 to 2024 and to date in 2025, with a breakdown by local authority area; the total number of active Housing First tenancies currently operating in each local authority area; and if he will provide the Housing First targets for each local authority and homeless region for 2025, in tabular form. [29461/25]

2025-06-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the legal, statutory or circular basis for the application of the local connection condition to the provision of homeless emergency accommodation. [29574/25]

2025-06-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the legal, statutory or circular basis for the application of the local connection condition to the assessment for accessing social housing support. [29575/25]

2025-06-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of new Housing First tenancies created in each of the years 2020 to 2024, by second-hand acquisition, turnkey and construction, with a further breakdown of each of these categories by local authority area. [29687/25]

2025-06-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the housing need and demand assessment targets for each local authority have been agreed and communicated to the relevant local authorities; and to provide those figures by local authority, in tabular form. [29955/25]

2025-06-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the breakdown of the 30,330 new homes completed in 2024 by tenure including, social, affordable (AHB, LA, LDA), private rental and private purchase and one off/self-build, in tabular form. [29957/25]

2025-06-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update on the implementation of the 14 actions set out in the Ministerial Action Plan on Planning Resources October 2024. [29973/25]

2025-06-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on whether Circular EL 02/2011 is an impediment to recruiting planners from abroad, including returning Irish citizens; and if he has any plans to review the circular to ensure overseas experience in related professional capacity is taken into account when making decisions for salaries. [30032/25]

2025-06-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if powers have been delegated to the Ministers of State in his Department; and if so, to list those delegated powers and the Ministers to whom they are delegated. [30223/25]

2025-06-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of social housing projects that will now be transferred from the Peter McVerry Trust to local authorities and other approved housing bodies; to provide a breakdown of this by local authority area and number of units; and the number of social housing projects that will now not proceed as a result of the restructuring of the Peter McVerry Trust, with a breakdown by local authority area and number of units. [30568/25]

2025-05-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a breakdown of the number of prosecutions for wildlife crimes by county for 2024, in tabular form. [27978/25]

2025-05-21

LOBBY

EPIC Empowering People in Care Housing

Dublin City Council Allocations are under review and changes were proposed to the allocations system

2025-05-21

LOBBY

Ibec Housing

Housing Policy

2025-05-21

LOBBY

Pathway Homes Ltd Development and Zoning

Lobbied all Sligo County Councillors and Sligo CEO Martin Lydon, as well a housing Minister Darragh O'Brien and Eoin O'Broin Sinn Fein TD to remove land from the Strategic Reserve in the Residential Zoned Land for current development.

2025-05-20

LOBBY

Irish Council for International Students (ICOS) Housing

Thanked for engaging with the launch of ICOS' housing report and request that action be taken on recommendations

2025-05-20

LOBBY

Mercy Law Resource Centre CLG Housing

Launch of '10 key asks on homelessness' as part of Irish Homeless Policy Group.

2025-05-20

LOBBY

Irish Congress of Trade Unions Housing

Meeting with Eoin O'Broin regarding Housing

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

Pavee Point Traveller & Roma Centre Housing

Housing Policy

2025-05-20

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.

2025-05-20

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

2025-05-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to explain the relationship between the statement of the Minister for Finance in his Budget speech on 1 October 2024 (details supplied) in relation to water infrastructure. [25296/25]

2025-05-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a detailed update on actions taken by his Department to ensure compliance with the European Convention of Human Rights on foot of their decision in the Collective Complaint FIDH v Ireland Complaint no 110/2014 and its decision in 2017 finding the Irish State failed to take sufficient and timely measures to ensure the right to housing of an adequate standard for many families living in local authority housing across the country and that Ireland was in violation of Article 16 of the Revised Social Charter, which protects the right of the family to social, legal and economic protection, including the provision of family housing. [25293/25]

2025-05-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on the stock condition surveys currently being undertaken by local authorities including an explanation of the methodology used, data collected, local authorities involved, percentage of local authority stock in each local authority surveyed to date; and to give a commitment that the outcome of the surveys will be published on the Departments website. [25294/25]

2025-05-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of Dublin City Council application for funding for the regeneration of Oliver Bond flats, Dublin 8. [25295/25]

2025-05-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on the cost rental backstop for local authorities and others. [25583/25]

2025-05-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on the four pathfinder projects in the interim fire safety defects scheme, including a detailed update on where each path finder project is at, the funding that has been approved and drawn down, and the outstanding issues to be addressed before actual remediation can take place. [25931/25]

2025-05-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on the eight pathfinder projects due to receive retrospective funding for building defects remediation, including a detailed update on where each pathfinder project is at, the funding that has been approved and the outstanding issues to be addressed before funding will be released. [25932/25]

2025-05-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on the Apartment and Duplex Defects Remediation Bill and the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill; if he intends to publish these Bills before the summer recess; and whether he hopes to have the defects Bill undergo pre-legislative scrutiny before the recess and the Housing Bill introduced for second stage before the recess. [25952/25]

2025-05-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the supplementary estimate for housing will be published and brought to the Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage. [25953/25]

2025-05-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide further details regarding the Housing Activation Office, including the number of people on its staff, the organisations to be represented, the names of those appointed/seconded to date in 2025, the powers and functions of the office and whether the head of office will be appointed through the Public Appointments Service. [26003/25]

2025-05-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of full-time equivalent staff funded by his Department in planning authorities, broken down by local authority and An Bord Pleanála, in tabular form; and whether all of these posts are currently filled, and where not, the number of vacancies that exist in each planning authority where funding has been provided for his Department. [26005/25]

2025-05-20

PQ

Asked Justice

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Justice the functions being transferred from his Department to the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage; and when these functions will be transferred. [25930/25]

2025-05-19

LOBBY

Depaul Housing

IHPG meeting with Eoin Ó Brion - Wednesday 12th of Feb. @ 11am.

2025-05-16

LOBBY

Threshold Housing

Rent Setting

2025-05-15

LOBBY

Monkstown Abbey Road Residents Association Transport

Promoting community consultation on local planning housing and traffic issues

2025-05-15

LOBBY

COPE Galway CLG Housing

Seeking the introduction of policy initiatives focused bring forwards specific solutions for vulnerable cohorts in homelessness; independent appeals system for homeless and social housing supports applications and seeking opportunity for the Irish Homeless Policy group, a coalition of NGO's to engagement with the new Oireachtas Housing Committee

2025-05-15

LOBBY

Society of St. Vincent de Paul Housing

Housing & Homeless Policy Issues affecting low-income households experiencing housing insecurity and homelessness

2025-05-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on the delayed Department approvals for social and affordable housing. [24903/25]

2025-05-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will reverse the decision to cut funding for social housing acquisitions, including housing first and the tenant in situ schemes. [24905/25]

2025-05-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to urgently review the cut in funding for the social housing acquisition programmes, given its negative impact on key homeless schemes like tenant in situ and housing first. [24433/25]

2025-05-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to confirm that no affordable homes will be delivered in phase 1A of the Poolbeg West strategic development zone; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24432/25]

2025-05-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason the Government missed its new-build social, affordable purchase and cost-rental targets in 2024; to set out what he intends to do to ensure the targets for 2025 are not missed; and to confirm what those targets are for new-build social, affordable purchase and cost rental. [24436/25]

2025-05-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to confirm that the €1 billion of funding for Uisce Éireann in budget 2025 was not additional money; and to set his response to the utility's request for an additional €2 billion in capital funding out to 2030, including €1.7 billion for urban capacity upgrades and €300 million for rural capacity upgrades, to facilitate the Government's revised housing targets. [24435/25]

2025-05-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on the interim remediation scheme for fire safety defects; and for an update on the legislation for the wider remediation scheme for homes with Celtic tiger-era defects. [24434/25]

2025-05-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to detail the source of the non-voted €490 million allocated to Uisce Éireann under the heading 'internal’ (income-own resources) in the published Revised Estimates for 2025; if this funding is intended to be spent in 2025 exclusively or if it is to be spent over a number of years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24982/25]

2025-05-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to detail the source of the non-voted €514 million allocated to Uisce Éireann under the heading 'external’ (borrowings-EU receipts) in the published Revised Estimates for 2025; if this funding is intended to be spent in 2025 exclusively or if it is to be spent over a number of years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24983/25]

2025-05-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide the total expenditure allocated to Uisce Éireann for its public capital programme in each of the past five years, broken down by voted Exchequer and non-voted other sources, in tabular form. [24984/25]

2025-05-14

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 245 and 247 of 3 April 2025, if Leitrim County Councils social housing acquisition budget for 2025 is €2 or €3 million. [24517/25]

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 5 returns Housing

Tenant in situ scheme
Homeless Policy - EU Count project
Launch of '10 key asks on homelessness' as part of Irish Homeless Policy Group.
Briefing with Housing Opposition Spokespeople on the EU Count
Irish Homeless Policy Group meeting with Eoin Ó Brion

2025-05-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to confirm that there is a working group in Government looking at the future funding of the LDA; to confirm the persons on this group; the number of times the group has met and the dates of the meetings; the terms of reference of the group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23166/25]

2025-05-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if changes would be required to the Land Development Agency Act 2021 for the agency to deliver private houses on publican land or if this is already provided for in the current legislation. [23167/25]

2025-05-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to set out the schedule for commencement of the various chapters and sections of the Planning and Development Act 2025, indicating which chapters and sections will be implemented this year and in what month or quarter. [24425/25]

2025-05-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of social housing projects approved under the single stage approval process in each year since that process was introduced; the number of units in each of these applications in each year; the total cost of these applications in each year, by local authority area, in tabular form. [24454/25]

2025-05-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the new housing first tender being run by the housing first office; and the impact on current supports to housing first tenants and the creation of new housing first tenancies arising for the failure to successfully complete the tender process to date. [22152/25]

2025-05-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to confirm the funding to be made available to the Housing Activation Office; if media reports of a €1 billion fund over five years is correct; if so, if this funding will come from within the existing expenditure allocation; and if not, if it will be additional and require a further supplementary estimate for 2025. [22448/25]

2025-05-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the rural, Gaeltacht and islands planning guidelines will be published. [22850/25]

2025-05-01

LOBBY

Focus Ireland Housing

New Housing and Homelessness Strategy Launch - Sinn Fein

2025-04-29

PQ

Asked Environment

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if the new climate action plan will include a commitment to provide additional supports for the retrofitting of approved housing body social housing. [19878/25]

2025-04-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he has delegated responsibilities to his Ministers of State; and if so, the responsibilities he has delegated to each Minister of State. [18976/25]

2025-04-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a list of all land that had its residential zoning by way of ministerial order in each of the years since 2020, by local authority area and land volume. [18977/25]

2025-04-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total Exchequer expenditure on social housing acquisitions in 2024, by local authority area, acquisition schemes, that is, tenant-in-situ, the Housing First scheme, vacant acquisitions, and buy and renew; and number of units acquired under each scheme in each local authority area, in tabular form. [18978/25]

2025-04-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a dated list of all correspondence between the European Commission and his Department on the issue of regulating and registering short-term lets, from 2020 to date. [18979/25]

2025-04-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to confirm that he has received the Housing Agency's review of rent pressure zones, and to publish the report. [18981/25]

2025-04-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to clarify the commencement schedule for each of the chapters and sections of Part 9 of the Planning and Development Act 2024; and to clarify if a partial commencement of chapter 2 is envisaged earlier in 2025 under block A2, with remaining sections of chapter 2 Part 9 to follow, with the subsequent and later implementation of elements of the Act falling under block D, as per the Department’s published implementation plan; and what sections are proposed to be commenced first, and why. [18982/25]

2025-04-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total amount of residentially zoned land in each local authority development plan, including a range of the number of residential homes that this land could yield in each local authority, in tabular form. [19205/25]

2025-04-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the analysis his Department has undertaken to assess the volumes of residential zoned land in the current city and county development plans; and the level of residential land deficits his Department estimates to exist across the State and in each local authority administrative area. [19206/25]

2025-04-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the methodology and data sources used by his officials for housing needs assessment of an average of 50,000 new homes a year to 2040 as set out in the revised national planning framework. [19207/25]

2025-04-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide the STAR allocations to each organisation that has been awarded equity payments under this scheme with a breakdown by scheme and amount of STAR awarded, in tabular form. [19402/25]

2025-04-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide the average cost incurred in retrofitting a standard three-bedroom local authority home. [19879/25]

2025-04-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of HAP payments allocated through the inter-authority movement of housing assistance payment scheme in each of the years from 2021 to date, by local authority, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20087/25]

2025-04-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of households added to the transfer list, by local authority in 2022, 2023, 2024 compared to the number of HAP tenancies created in the same years and local authorities, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20088/25]

2025-04-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of HAP tenancies that have ended after the first two year period, by local authority, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20089/25]

2025-04-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a list of all briefing documents provided to him by his Department officials since taking office; and the dates on which those briefing documents were submitted to him. [20101/25]

2025-04-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of applications received by his Department from Dublin City Council to funding and approval for inner city flat complex refurbishment, retrofit redevelopment in 2024 and to date in 2025; the estates covered in these applications, the dates the applications were received and the status of each of these applications. [20102/25]

2025-04-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the breakdown of what the €50 million allocated for regeneration and refurbishment under REV sub head A12 was spent on in 2024; and what the metrics are for the same allocation in 2025. [20103/25]

2025-04-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason no metrics are listed in the 2025 REV for his Department for sub heads A15 (regeneration and refurbishment) and A12 (traveller accommodation). [20104/25]

2025-04-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to set out all changes made to the revised National Planning Framework from the draft version published in November 2024 and the final version approved by cabinet in April 2025, in tabular form. [20935/25]

2025-04-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average cost per unit of new build social housing delivered in 2024 by SHIP construction, SHIP turnkey, CALF construction, CALF turnkey, CAS construction, CAS turnkey, Local Authority Part V and AHB Part V and PPP, in tabular form. [20936/25]

2025-04-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of social housing new builds delivered in 2024 by delivery streams, SHIP construction, SHIP turnkey, CALF construction, CALF turnkey, CAS construction, CAS turnkey, Local Authority Part V, Approved Housing Body Part V and regeneration and PPP. [20937/25]

2025-04-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average cost, per unit, of new-build affordable housing delivered in 2024, broken down by AHF construction, AHF turnkey, CREL construction, CREL turnkey, LDA Project Tosaigh, and LDA direct delivery, in tabular form. [21249/25]

2025-04-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of new build affordable housing delivered in 2024, broken down by AHF construction, AHF turnkey CREL construction, CREL turnkey, LDA Project Tosaigh, and LDA direct delivery, in tabular form. [21250/25]

2025-04-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average cost, per unit, of social housing acquisitions in 2024, broken down by tenant-in-situ, housing first, buy-and-renew and vacant acquisitions, and with a further breakdown of these categories by local authority area, in tabular form. [21251/25]

2025-04-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of social housing acquisitions in 2024, broken down by tenant-in-situ, housing first, buy-and-renew and vacant acquisitions, and with a further breakdown of these categories by local authority area, in tabular form. [21252/25]

2025-04-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total expenditure in 2022, 2023 and 2024 on social and affordable housing funded through SHIP, CALF, CAS, AHF, CREL, AHB borrowing and LDA expenditure, in tabular form. [21253/25]

2025-04-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of successful STAR applications; the recipient of each of these awards, the name of the scheme to which each award has been awarded; the number of cost rental units in each of these schemes; and the amount awarded to each scheme, in tabular form. [17965/25]

2025-04-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the target for delivery of cost rental homes by the LDA under Project Tosaigh by 2026 and 2028; the total number of cost rental homes delivered to date under this scheme; the total number in the pipeline; the estimated delivery date for the schemes in the pipeline; if he is concerned that the 2026 target may not be met; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17966/25]

2025-04-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when a revised estimate for Vote 34 Sub Head A Housing will be brought to the Oireachtas; to outline the programme level changes within this subhead to those outlined in the revised estimates for Public service 2025 published by the Department of Finance in December 2024. [16907/25]

2025-04-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason the relationship between and the difference between the housing capital allocations of €3.6 billon and €3.8 billion for 2025 referenced by him in the media (details supplied) and the capital allocation for housing of €3.094 billion for 2025 as set out on page 159 of the Revised Estimates for Public Services 2025 published by his Department in December 2024. [16908/25]

2025-04-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of applications by approved housing bodies and local authorities for approval for social and affordable housing schemes under the SHIP, CAS, CALF, CREL and AHF funding streams, broken down by month and funding stream for each month from August 2024 to March 2025; the corresponding number of applications approved under each of these categories in each of the relevant months; the total number of applications for approval pending on 1 April 2025 including a breakdown, by funding stream, number of units in each funding stream and schemes, units and funding streams in each local authority administrative area, in tabular form. [16909/25]

2025-04-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of staff employed directly by his Department; and the total cost of this staffing for each year from 2020 to date. [16910/25]

2025-04-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total funding allocated under each of the programmes funded by his Department for addressing vacancy and dereliction in 2024; the total amount spent under each of these programmes in 2024; and the total number of vacant or derelict units brought back into use through each of these programmes in 2024, in tabular form. [16911/25]

2025-04-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of advisors he has appointed, their names, responsibilities and a brief biography of their professional and employment experience. [17238/25]

2025-04-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide clarifications to the statement issued by his Department to the media on Sunday 30 March 2025 (details supplied). [17239/25]

2025-04-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on the review of IS 465; and when he expects to bring forward legislation to amend the defective concrete block grant scheme. [17431/25]

2025-04-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the capital allocations for social housing acquisitions for 2025 for each local authority, in tabular form. [17528/25]

2025-04-03

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to explain the relationship between the €111 million capital funding for social and affordable housing announced on 31 March and the €450 million capital funding approved for social and affordable housing by Cabinet on 18 February 2025; for a breakdown of the €111 million, by funding stream, including SHIP, CALF, CAS, CREL and AHF; and to provide a breakdown of the number of units this funding will provide in 2025 under each of these streams. [16420/25]

2025-04-03

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a breakdown of the €325 million capital funding for social housing acquisitions announced by the Minister on 31 March, by local authority area, in tabular form; and to confirm that this funding is additional to the funding detailed in the revised estimate for public services published by the Department of Finance on 19 December 2024. [16421/25]

2025-04-03

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an updated estimate for sub heads A4, A7, A11, A236 and A31 following the announcement of an additional €436 million in capital funding for social and affordable housing announced on 31 March 2025. [16422/25]

2025-04-03

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for a copy of the circular on social housing acquisitions issued to local authorities alongside the capital allocations for acquisitions announced on 31 March 2025. [16423/25]

2025-04-03

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the €325 million for social housing acquisitions announced on 31 March 2025 is additional to the €1.867 billion allocated to A4 SHIP, A7 CAS and A11 CALF in the revised estimates published by the Department of Finance on 19 December 2024; and if not, if this is the amount from within the revised estimates as published in December 2024 that can be spent on social housing acquisitions. [16435/25]

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 Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average cost per unit of new-build social housing delivered in 2024, by SHIP construction, SHIP turnkey, CALF construction (including full cost and CALF cost), CALF turnkey (including full cost and CALF cost), CAS construction, CAS turnkey, Local Authority Part V, AHB Part V, acquisition, Affordable Housing Fund (including full cost and AHF cost), Cost Rental Equity Loan (including full cost and CREL cost), and the costs for social housing acquisition, in tabular form. [15020/25]

2025-04-01

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the capital allocations for social housing acquisitions for 2025, in tabular form. [15139/25]

2025-04-01

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of repair and lease homes funded by his Department from 2020 to 2024, in tabular form. [15730/25]

2025-03-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage how many capital assistance scheme (CAS) projects have been sanctioned by his Department since he became Minister; the number of homes likely to be delivered under CAS in 2025; and the number of CAS projects currently awaiting sanction from his Department. [14239/25]

2025-03-26

VOTE

Social Housing Tenant In Situ Scheme · 2 divisions

✗ voted against the motion the motion motion passed · 87–70
✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion passed · 87–71

2025-03-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to set out the specific responsibilities delegated to each of the Ministers of State within his Department. [13420/25]

2025-03-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of HAP, RAS and privately owned lease tenancies, long term leasing, enhanced leasing etc. in place at the end of 2024, and the total cost to the exchequer arising from these leases, in 2024, in tabular form. [13421/25]

2025-03-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of second hand acquisitions by local authorities and approved housing bodies funded by his Department in 2022, 2023 and 2024; the breakdown of these acquisitions, by scheme (details supplied); and the total expenditure by his Department on each of these schemes in 2022, 2023 and 2024, in tabular form. [13425/25]

2025-03-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total capital expenditure in 2024 for the Social Housing Investment Programme, capital advance leasing facility, capital assistance scheme, cost rental equity loan, affordable housing fund, Land Development Agency and approved housing body borrowings. [13669/25]

2025-03-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total capital expenditure in 2024 for the Social Housing Investment Programme, capital advance leasing facility, capital assistance scheme, cost rental equity loan, affordable housing fund, Land Development Agency and approved housing body borrowings. [13674/25]

2025-03-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage how buy and renew social homes are reported by his Department, as acquisitions or as new builds; the number of buy and renew social homes delivered in each year from 2020 to 2024; and the average cost to the Exchequer each year from the delivery of these homes. [14166/25]

2025-03-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of social housing tenant in situ purchases concluded in 2024, with a breakdown by local authority area, providing an average purchase cost for the total number of such acquisitions and an average for the acquisitions in each local authority area. [14176/25]

2025-03-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will introduce an amendment to the Planning and Development Act 2024 empowering planning authorities to apply administrative fines to short-term letting platforms such as a company (details supplied) and others where they advertise short-term lets in rent pressure zones that are not in compliance with planning law, as proposed in the Short-term Lettings Enforcement Bill 2022, Second Stage of which was passed by Dáil Éireann in May 2022. [13255/25]

2025-03-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to comment on the ongoing delay in his Department's approvals for social and affordable housing projects funded via SHIP, CAS, CALF, CREL and AHF; to confirm the total number of projects submitted to his Department under each funding stream since September 2024 to date in 2025; the number that have been approved, and the local authority, or approved housing bodies, involved formally notified of that approval during the same time period. [13256/25]

2025-03-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to confirm the total delivery of affordable purchase and cost-rental homes in 2024 by local authorities, approved housing bodies and the Land Development Agency; and his views on the low output under these schemes and growing number of people unable to access these properties due to the unaffordable rents and house prices. [13257/25]

2025-03-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he will bring forward amending legislation to ensure homeowners approved for a defective block remediation grant can avail of the most recent Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland square meter costs. [12584/25]

2025-03-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on the introduction of allocations schemes for cost rental developments and income thresholds for single people sharing, as set out in legislation passed by the Oireachtas in November 2024. [12587/25]

2025-03-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of new traveller specific accommodation units delivered in 2024, by local authority area; the average cost per unit in each local authority area; and the total expenditure on the delivery of these new units in 2024. [12586/25]

2025-03-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide the final quarter social and affordable housing figures for 2024, including the full-year figures for social new build, acquisitions, cost rental and affordable purchase. [12585/25]

2025-03-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on the interim funding for multi-unit development defects remediation; the total number of schemes that have applied; the schemes approved; the total number of units involved in each scheme; the moneys approved, allocated and spent to date in 2025; and when works are expected to commence and conclude on each approved project. [12583/25]

2025-03-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on its engagement with off-balance sheet borrowing by approved housing bodies (AHBs) for the delivery of social and affordable housing; and to provide an update on his Departments consideration on proposals from the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage to address the impact of gearing on future AHBs' borrowing levels. [12126/25]

2025-03-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the data his Department has on levels of vacancy and dereliction in each local authority, including numbers of units, entries on the derelict sites register and amounts owed to local authorities for unpaid derelict sites levies; and to provide the most up-to-date information on these issues and other data relating to vacancy and dereliction held by his Department. [11150/25]

2025-03-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of social and affordable homes that were stalled awaiting approval from his Department at the start of January 2025, across how many schemes and in which local authority areas. [11151/25]

2025-03-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of the 3,000 social and affordable homes that received Cabinet approval in February that will be delivered in 2025, 2026 and 2027; and to provide a breakdown of the units to be delivered each year, by type and funding stream. [11152/25]

2025-03-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if a supplementary estimate will be brought forward to revise the December 2024 estimate arising from the Cabinet memo allocating €450 million to the delivery of social and affordable housing; if so, when; and the amount allocated to each funding stream for 2025. [11153/25]

2025-03-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when funding approval will be provided for all outstanding social and affordable project applications to his Department; and to provide a subsequent costing for these and timeline for delivery. [11154/25]

2025-03-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of social and affordable housing schemes granted approval by Cabinet in February 2025 that have been communicated to local authorities and approved housing bodies (AHB), providing a breakdown by AHB/local authority and the number of units in each scheme. [11155/25]

2025-03-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if any capital advance leasing fund (CALF) or cost-rental equity loan (CREL)-funded projects currently under construction have had their staged CALF or CREL payments delayed; and if so, the number, including the total number of units, and for what reason. [11156/25]

2025-03-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to confirm the 2025 social housing tenant-in-situ target, with a breakdown for each local authority area; if a circular communicating this and the new restrictions to the scheme has been issued to local authorities; if not, when it will be circulated; if he will commit to publishing the circular on his Department’s website; and if a risk assessment has been done regarding these new restrictions to determine the number of existing tenant-in-situ applications that may not now proceed due to the new restrictions. [11157/25]

2025-03-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of social housing tenant-in-situ purchases concluded in 2024, with a breakdown by local authority area, providing an average purchase cost for the total number of such acquisitions and an average for the acquisitions in each local authority area [11158/25]

2025-03-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of applications for emergency replacement of caravans or mobile homes that have been received by his Department since the recent storm Éowyn; and of these applications, the number that have been approved, rejected or still under consideration, by each local authority area, in tabular form. [11205/25]

2025-03-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to outline the process of application and assessment for emergency replacement of caravans and mobile homes; the general timeline for the application and assessment process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11206/25]

2025-03-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the work his Department has undertaken since 2017 on each of the eight recommendations from chapter 5 of the Joint Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services Report of April 2017 dealing with issues related to water conservation, in tabular form. [12003/25]

2025-03-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on proposals to address the gearing challenges identified as a threat to future borrowing levels by approved housing bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12124/25]

2025-03-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if Exchequer funding for the Housing First scheme is separate to the acquisitions funding announced March 2025; the amount of funding allocated to Housing First in 2025; and the reason his Department is preventing approved housing bodies from utilising capital assistance leasing funding for Housing first Acquisitions. [12125/25]

2025-03-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will review the provisions in Circular 06/2024 - Arrangements for Social Housing Acquisitions which has resulted in approved housing bodies being unable to access capital advance leasing funding to acquire homes for those experiencing homelessness. [12504/25]

2025-03-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage about the impact of water consumption by data centres on water supply; his views on the impact of this consumption on water supply during periods when Uisce Éireann is encouraging water conservation; and if he will publish, or request Uisce Éireann to publish, the volume of water consumption by data processing centres, by local authority area. [12591/25]

2025-03-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he will next update the Basic Unit Costs (BUCs) and the Acquisition Cost Guidelines (ACGs) for social housing; if these same measures are applied to affordable housing delivered via cost rental equity loan, CREL and the affordable housing fund, AHF; and if he will give a commitment to make the revised BUCs and ACGs available to Deputies, on publication.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12652/25]

2025-03-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of developer provided infrastructure projects nationwide that fall outside the scope of circular PL5/14 of November 2014 and the agreed memoranda of understanding in terms of the transfer of water services infrastructure assets within the estates to Uisce Éireann, by local authority area, in tabular form. [12830/25]

2025-03-06

PQ

Asked Environment

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he has engaged with stakeholders in relation to the situation whereby grid constraints from the excessive data centre demand are negatively impacting the connection of housing to the electricity network. [10348/25]

2025-03-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of schemes and units funded through 5 programmes and funds (details supplied) that are waiting for departmental approval; and when these decisions will be made, in tabular form. [9850/25]

2025-03-04

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of new homes that are forecast to be delivered with the additional €450 million funding under funding streams (details supplied). [9312/25]

2025-02-26

PQ

Asked Environment

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if his attention has been drawn to the situation whereby grid constraints from the excessive data centre demand are negatively impacting the connection of housing to the electricity network. [8350/25]

2025-02-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the social and affordable delivery streams that will receive the €450 million capital allocation approved by Cabinet on 18 February 2025; and the years in which this capital funding will be provided, in tabular form. [7701/25]

2025-02-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the 3,000 social and affordable homes to be funded through the €450 million capital allocation approved by Cabinet on 18 February 2025 are to deliver homes within the existing Housing For All targets as set out in the 2021 Housing For All plan. [7702/25]

2025-02-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will list the 3,000 social and affordable homes to be delivered through the €450 million capital allocation approved by Cabinet on 18 February 2025, broken down by the number of units in each local authority area and the social housing landlord associated with each scheme that is, named AHB or the relevant local authority, in tabular form. [7703/25]

2025-02-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on the proposed allocations schemes for cost rental housing including an update on whether any regulations have been issued by him and any scheme specific cost rental allocations schemes approved; and if so, where and for which category of worker/tenant. [7711/25]

2025-02-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for a list of all submissions received by his Department during the review of Part B of the Building Control Regulations and to publish the submissions on the Department's website or to provide copies of the submissions to the incoming members of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage. [7712/25]

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

2025-02-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to list all approved housing body social and cost rental development proposals that are currently with his Department waiting initial approval, with a breakdown by local authority, number of units and length of time a decision has been pending. [5993/25]

2025-02-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of staff sanction requests for housing staff currently awaiting decision with his Department, with a breakdown by local authority. [5995/25]

2025-02-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he will bring to Cabinet the tenant-in-situ targets for 2025. [5996/25]

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

2025-02-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the review of the rental accommodation scheme will be published. [4558/25]

2025-02-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on the implementation of the recommendations of the recent Housing Commission report and to outline if a working group will be established to facilitate the implementation of the report. [4559/25]

2025-02-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for the Revised Estimates Volume for Public Services table for the capital assistance scheme and the capital advance leasing facility for 2025. [4560/25]

2025-02-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of local authorities currently using choice-based letting to make social housing allocations. [2239/25]

2025-02-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of social homes purchased from financing institutions by the Housing Agency with their rolling fund in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024; the number of these properties that were then sold onto AHBs and local authorities; and the current status of the fund. [2240/25]

2025-02-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 710 of 22 January 2025, to confirm that no circular has been issued to local authorities with respect to housing assistance payment rates for separated parents with part access to their children, whereby the HAP rate is changed when the child turns 18. [2671/25]

2025-01-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the decision of a local authority to withdraw the one adult and one child rate of HAP from separated parents with part access to their child when the child reaches 18 years is a policy of his Department or a decision for the local authority; if he agrees with such decisions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46312/24]

2025-01-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the Q3 social and affordable housing delivery report will be published. [46343/24]

2025-01-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status the interim fire safety defects funding; if funding has now been approved; the amount and for what projects; and when all other approved developments can expect to be able to secure funding for the interim fire safety works. [46345/24]

2025-01-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the retrospective funding for remediation of Celtic tiger era defects in multi-unit developments. [46346/24]

2025-01-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to conduct a review of the financing and delivery of cost rental schemes and the rent setting of these schemes in light of the growing number of applicants denied access to cost rental accommodation who, despite meeting the income eligibility criteria, are refused on the grounds that they do not meet the affordability criteria whereby rents cannot be more than a third of their take-home pay. [46404/24]

2025-01-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the tenant purchase scheme for local authority tenants is currently suspended (i.e., for December); if so, the reason therefor; and if not, when it will be. [46406/24]

2025-01-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of local authority mortgages approved in 2024 and drawn down in 2024; the average amount approved; and the average amount drawn down, with a breakdown by local authority area, in tabular form. [2092/25]

2025-01-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the Q4 2024 social and affordable housing delivery figures will be published; and to provide a breakdown of these figures by delivery stream (SHIP construction, SHIP turnkey, CALF construction, CALF turnkey, CAS construction, CAS turnkey, Part V, PPP, other) in the Q4 report. [2094/25]

2025-01-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of new accommodation units provided in 2024 through the Traveller accommodation programme funding, with a breakdown by local authority area; and to provide an average cost Statewide, broken down by local authority area. [2095/25]

2025-01-21

LOBBY

Pathway Homes Ltd Development and Zoning

Lobbied all Sligo County Councillors and Sligo CEO Martin Lydon, as well a housing Minister Darragh O'Brien and Eoin O'Broin Sinn Fein TD to remove land from the Strategic Reserve in the Residential Zoned Land for current development.

2025-01-21

LOBBY

Mercy Law Resource Centre CLG Housing

Breakfast Briefing - A Home of Your Own

2025-01-21

LOBBY

Rehab Group Public Expenditure and Reform

Rehab's Pre Budget Submission

2025-01-21

LOBBY

Uisce Éireann Housing

Briefing on key priorities for water and wastewater infrastructure and investment in Ireland over the new Government term.

2025-01-21

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

2025-01-21

LOBBY

Montague Communications Ltd Housing

Redress 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.

2025-01-21

LOBBY

Ibec Housing

Discussion about housing policy

2025-01-20

LOBBY

South Dublin Chamber Housing

Briefing meeting with Q&A on Housing

2025-01-20

LOBBY

Healthy Homes Ireland Housing

To secure meetings with elected/ designated officials in order to communicate the findings of Healthy Homes Ireland's report; 'Our place: Towards Healthier Greener Homes'.

2025-01-20

LOBBY

Threshold 6 returns Housing

Programme for Government
Sinn Fein's housing policy
Threshold's conference 'Changing our Housing System'
Rent Arrears Data.
CSO appearance at Oireachtas Committee.
Threshold's general election asks.

2025-01-20

LOBBY

Irish Council for International Students (ICOS) Education and Training

Sent a copy of ICOS' General Election Manifesto and requested that the proposals are taken into consideration for policy positions. Proposals included housing, education and immigration considerations. The manifesto was send to heads of policy in each party also.

2025-01-20

LOBBY

HINES REAL ESTATE IRELAND LIMITED Development and Zoning

Meeting with Eoin O'Broin - Sinn Fein

2025-01-20

LOBBY

Glenveagh Properties Plc Housing

Housing for All and National Planning Framework

2025-01-17

LOBBY

Irish Congress of Trade Unions Housing

Housing

2025-01-16

LOBBY

Construction Industry Federation (CIF) Housing

Letter relating to IHBA's concerns re: Sinn Fein's Housing Manifesto - “A Home of Your Own, Sinn Féin’s Plan to Make Housing Affordable”.

2025-01-07

LOBBY

SAFE Ireland National Social Change Agency CLG T/A SAFE Ireland Housing

Home for Good Coalition attendance at the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing

2025-01-07

LOBBY

Irish Planning Institute Development and Zoning

Presentation on Sinn Féin’s Housing Plan

2025-01-06

LOBBY

Mcor Cost consultants Housing

Discussed housing strategy

2024-11-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will publish the Mulcahy report into panning issues in County Donegal; and if not the full report, whether he will publish a summary of the report, highlighting its main findings and any recommendation raising from those findings. [45676/24]

2024-11-06

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the refurbishment and new unit spends, and number in each case, of Traveller accommodations, per local authority, from 2019-2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45369/24]

2024-11-06

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the current status of the Traveller Accommodation and Support Programme pipeline across all Traveller accommodation projects initiated in the period 2019-2024.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45370/24]

2024-11-06

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide a centralised national report of the Traveller Accommodation Programme 2019-2024, of all local authorities, to include expenditure, delivery and programme pipeline status. [45371/24]

2024-11-06

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the housing delivered for Travellers nationwide under Housing for All, in tabular form. [45372/24]

2024-11-06

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide details and the pro-rata percentage of all housing allocations for social housing which have gone to Travellers 2019-2024. [45373/24]

2024-10-23

VOTE

Affordable Housing · 2 divisions

✗ voted against the motion the motion motion passed · 71–59
✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion passed · 71–59

2024-10-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason an open market valuation is being used to establish the price of homes under the Government’s affordable purchase scheme rather than all-in development costs. [43227/24]

2024-10-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to confirm the price of the one-, two- and three-bedroom cost-rental units in Oscar Traynor Road, O'Devaney Gardens and Shanganagh Castle. [43228/24]

2024-10-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on the implementation of the recommendations of the expert group on Traveller accommodation, and on how many new units of Traveller-specific accommodation have been delivered in each year since the report was published in 2019. [42861/24]

2024-10-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on the interim fire safety scheme for multi-unit developments with defects, including an update on both the pathfinder projects and the total number of applicants for the funding to date. [42863/24]

2024-10-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide the latest figures for drawdowns by local authority area for the vacant property refurbishment and vacancy grants. [42864/24]

2024-10-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he intends to introduce legislation to retrospectively apply the latest SCSI square meter costs to house recipients of the defective concrete block grant who have already received grant offers under the earlier and lower SCSI cost estimates. [42860/24]

2024-10-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to set out any updated commencement schedule for the Planning and Development Act 2023, in tabular form. [42862/24]

2024-10-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to set out the tenant in situ scheme targets for each local authority for 2025, in tabular form. [42768/24]

2024-10-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide the total number of full-time equivalent staff funded by his Department working in each local authority planning department and in An Bord Pleanála, in tabular form. [43102/24]

2024-10-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount of additional funding allocated for the capital assistance scheme in Budget 2025. [43155/24]

2024-10-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount of additional funding allocated for the housing adaptation grant for people with a disability, and for implementation of the recommendations of the adaptation grant review, in Budget 2025. [43156/24]

2024-10-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount of additional funding allocated to support adaptation works on local authority social homes in Budget 2025. [43157/24]

2024-10-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to detail the additional funding allocated to support the implementation of the ‘Housing Strategy for Disabled People 2022-2027’ in Budget 2025. [43158/24]

2024-10-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if LDA capital expenditure and LDA commercial borrowing is on the Government balance sheet; and his views on any balance sheet implications of shifting the State's equity from ISIF to the LDA by way of Government approved capitalisation. [41641/24]

2024-10-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide this Deputy with a copy of the most recent social housing unit cost ceilings as provided to local authorities. [41114/24]

2024-10-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total annual expenditure on the defective concrete block grant scheme for each year the scheme has been in operation, in tabular form. [41241/24]

2024-10-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for a breakdown of the €245 million for the cost rental equity loan allocated in Budget 2025; if this is all capital funding; and if it includes the equity funding piece. [41261/24]

2024-10-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of new posts for planning authorities sanctioned in Budget 2025; to confirm that these are entirely separate from any additional sanction provided in 2024; and to provide details of both, in terms of number sanctioned, numbers recruited to date, and funding provided in each round of sanction. [40736/24]

2024-10-08

LOBBY

Simon Communities of Ireland Housing

Simon Communities of Ireland have developed a document for consideration by Political Parties in the upcoming general election

2024-10-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his Department sets out the income disregards for local authorities in calculating differential rent; and if so, to provide a list of the disregards. [39925/24]

2024-10-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a schedule of the 2025 estimates by sub head for Vote 34, itemising each provisionally agreed programme allocation, as set out in the abridged Estimates volume. [40006/24]

2024-10-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount of funding that will be allocated for the capital assistance scheme in Budget 2025. [40253/24]

2024-10-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount of funding that will be allocated for the capital advance leasing facility in Budget 2025. [40254/24]

2024-10-01

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason the pricing of homes under the affordable purchase scheme is based on an open market valuation, rather than the actual costs of delivery of the home; and to explain what happens to the portion of the affordable housing fund in cases where the cost of delivery is lower than the open market valuation. [38494/24]

2024-10-01

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to set out the rules of the tenant purchase scheme where one tenant has been a tenant for over ten years and the other tenant has not. [38508/24]

2024-09-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of sanctions sought in 2024 by local authorities for tenant-in-situ acquisitions above the 50% of their allocation, in tabular form. [38099/24]

2024-09-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to confirm that with respect to the tenant-in-situ scheme, for acquisitions that are above the local authority allocation plus 50%, if advance approval needs to be obtained from his Department, as set out in Guidance for 2024 Social Housing Acquisitions issued by the Department to local authorities in June 2024. [38100/24]

2024-09-23

LOBBY

South Dublin Chamber Housing

Increasing the housing supply

2024-09-20

LOBBY

Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland Housing

Attended Private Breakfast Briefing on Sinn Féin Housing Plan on Monday 9th September

2024-09-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on the interim fire safety funding for multi-unit developments. [37146/24]

2024-09-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the steps planned to reduce the number of people in homeless emergency accommodation. [37147/24]

2024-09-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the steps he is taking to halt and reverse the rise in homelessness. [37052/24]

2024-09-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on the delivery of affordable homes in the Poolbeg West SDZ. [37055/24]

2024-09-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to give an update on commencement figures for the latest date possible. [37051/24]

2024-09-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on the delivery of cost rental homes in Oscar Traynor Road and O'Devaney Gardens. [37054/24]

2024-09-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on the interim fire safety defects scheme for multi-unit developments. [37053/24]

2024-09-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total expenditure by his Department on the first-home scheme in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and the total number of first home scheme equity loans drawn down each year, to date in 2024, in tabular form. [36832/24]

2024-09-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for a list of all programmes funded by his Department aimed at tackling vacancy and dereliction, with the number of homes brought back into use through each of these schemes in each of the years 2020 to 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [36833/24]

2024-09-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on the convening of the nature advisory committee, that is, the NPWS stakeholder forum, by the NPWS; who will chair it; the frequency with which it will meet; and the organisations that are being invited to attend. [33879/24]

2024-09-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he plans to make any changes to the Open Seasons Order this year. [33880/24]

2024-09-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if Departmental funding for local authority staff, including housing staff, remains with the local authority where there are vacancies and if local authorities have discretion on how this funding should be spent where it is not being spent on staff (i.e., for the duration of the vacancy). [33940/24]

2024-09-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total expenditure in 2023 on social and affordable housing, funded through SHIP, CALF, CAS, AHF, CREL, AHB borrowing and LDA expenditure, with a breakdown for each of these funding streams, in tabular form. [34081/24]

2024-09-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of requests from local authorities for funding for acquisitions and for voids that have been refused or put on hold in 2024, with a breakdown by local authority and amount of funding requested, in tabular form. [34124/24]

2024-09-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if there are any imminent or recently issued revised guidelines for local authorities and AHBs with respect to the social and cost rental tenant-in-situ scheme. [34212/24]

2024-09-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated cost of increasing the number of full-time equivalent staff at the National Building Control Office to 20, including three additional executive professional officers and 12 professional officers. [34242/24]

2024-07-23

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the work of the Approved Housing Body Classification Working Group; the number of meetings the group has had to date in 2024; the membership of the working group; and the progress that has been made to date towards securing off-balance sheet statistical classification for approved housing bodies. [31071/24]

2024-07-23

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of owner management companies currently in stage 3 of the interim remediation scheme for fire safety defects in apartments and duplexes; the length of time they have been in stage 3; the reason they cannot progress to the next stage; to provide a list of the projects identified as pathfinders; when they were identified as such; to provide an update on each of these pathfinders, including an estimation of when works will start and complete; and if all other approved applicants will have to wait for the completion of the pathfinder projects before they can progress beyond stage 3 of the process. [31822/24]

2024-07-23

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the current limit of equity that can be provided under the affordable purchase scheme, both in cash terms per unit and as a percentage of the market value of the unit; and if there have been any individual schemes that have been provided with more funding that the current limits permit. [31865/24]

2024-07-23

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the full cost to the Exchequer of the development levy and water connection waiver in 2023; and the estimated full cost of the waiver in 2024. [31963/24]

2024-07-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will set out the operation of the realisation event and long stop date as set out in section 18 of the Affordable Housing Act 2022, with specific reference to whether local authorities will be required to issue realisation notices prior to the long stop date expiring; and whether realisation notices can be issued after the long stop date has expired and where none of the other grounds specified are grounds for the issuance of the realisation notice. [30609/24]

2024-07-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if a first home scheme payment is made directly to the property seller/developer or to the purchaser of the property. [30729/24]

2024-07-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the up-to-date position with respect to the square metre rates for the defective block grant scheme for each county; and when he next intends to have an organisation (details supplied) review these square metre rates. [30021/24]

2024-07-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the croí cónaithe cities fund will take the form of equity, a grant to the developer or a loan to the purchaser. [30022/24]

2024-07-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the per square meter grant rate paid to homeowners under the defective concrete block grant scheme is paid at the rate in place on the date the grant is approved or the rate in place on the date the construction contract is signed. [30041/24]

2024-07-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of applications to the enhanced defective block redress scheme; the number of transfers from the old scheme; where these applications are at in terms of the stages of the process, in tabular form; the number who have drawn down funds to date; and the number who have drawn down their full grant, broken down by local authority area and year; and to provide a breakdown of all of the information, by local authority. [30059/24]

2024-07-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will ask the Minister of State with responsibility for Heritage to meet with an organisation (details supplied) in July or August to discuss their concerns with respect to a range of heritage matters that fall within his responsibility. [29535/24]

2024-07-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of vacant and derelict homes brought back into use in each of the years 2020 to 2023 and to date in 2024, broken down by each of the relevant vacant and derelict home schemes, in tabular form. [29849/24]

2024-07-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on the research by his Department into the number of vacant and derelict homes across the State. [29850/24]

2024-07-02

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on the provision of funding to local authorities and approved housing bodies to fund remediation of defective concrete blocks in their housing stock. [28166/24]

2024-07-02

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will report on the progress of Actions 7.1 to 7.6 of Housing for All, to date, and other actions his Department is taking to increase the supply of housing for people with disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28167/24]

2024-07-02

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of local authority housing allocations for people with disabilities in the years 2023-2024, broken down by physical, sensory, mental, intellectual or other classification of disability, in tabular form. [28168/24]

2024-07-02

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if child benefit is disregarded in the income assessment for social housing eligibility. [28170/24]

2024-07-02

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason staged payments via SHIP and SALF are possible for local authorities and approved housing bodies (AHBs) to make staged payments for social housing delivery, while such staged payments are not available to local authorities and AHBs/cooperatives under the affordable housing fund for the delivery of affordable purchase homes. [28285/24]

2024-06-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 194 of 30 May 2024, if a person who sold their family home following divorce proceedings can be considered eligible for the fresh start principle for the purposes of applying for a local authority home loan or affordable purchase home; and the statutory instruments underpinning the fresh start principal as it applies to the local authority home loan and affordable purchase scheme. [27696/24]

2024-06-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on the publication of the general scheme, or full Bill, to underpin the Celtic Tiger-era building defects remediation scheme. [27080/24]

2024-06-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the position regarding the provision of emergency funding for buildings with Celtic Tiger-era building defects, including the number of schemes that have applied; the number of applications approved; and the number of schemes that have drawn down funding, providing all of this information broken down by local authority area, in tabular form. [27081/24]

2024-06-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to set out his response to the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee commentary on the Planning and Development Bill 2023, in particular to the concern it has raised with sections 133, 135 (2) (b) and (d) and whether they would fulfil the requirements of paragraph 4 (a) (i) of decisions VII/8i; and if he intends to table further amendments to the Bill at Seanad Stage to address the concerns of the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee. [27038/24]

2024-06-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of applications for the secure tenancies affordable rents fund, by local authority area and number of units per application; the number of applications that have been approved to date; and the amount per unit of accommodation awarded for each approved application. [27244/24]

2024-06-19

PQ

Asked Taoiseach

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Housing will meet again. [26359/24]

2024-05-30

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on the delivery of affordable homes in 2024. [24566/24]

2024-05-30

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a response to the report of the Housing Commission. [24567/24]

2024-05-30

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the steps he will take to address the rising levels of homelessness and in particular the unacceptably high levels of child homelessness. [24568/24]

2024-05-30

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on the implementation of the recommendations of the expert group on Traveller accommodation. [24288/24]

2024-05-30

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on the delivery of affordable homes in the Poolbeg SDZ. [24291/24]

2024-05-30

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of social housing schemes currently underway using the Part 8 derogation including the number of units to be delivered; the locations of each scheme along with commencement and estimated completion dates for each scheme. [24289/24]

2024-05-30

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will respond to the growing criticism of the revised defective block remediation scheme from home owners in the impacted counties. [24290/24]

2024-05-30

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the fresh start principal can apply to a person who sold the family home following legal separation or divorce, either by voluntary agreement with their former partner or on foot of a court order as part of the separation or divorce settlement. [24513/24]

2024-05-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the date for completion of the Housing Adaptation Grant Review; the date it will be published; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24166/24]

2024-05-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the revised guidance note on approved housing body submissions for the revised cost rental equity loan, currently being drafted by the Housing Agency, will be published. [23109/24]

2024-05-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the Housing Commission Report will be published before the Dáil summer recess in July. [23110/24]

2024-05-22

VOTE

Housing Situation · 2 divisions

✗ voted against the motion the motion motion passed · 61–50
✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion passed · 61–49

2024-05-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will issue a circular to local authorities providing guidance on the issue of social housing tenants in Part V units and access to communal facilities in multiple-unit developments to ensure fair access to communal facilities for all residents in line with the Part V objective of promoting social integration in mixed-tenure developments. [22699/24]

2024-05-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his Department is responsible for introducing renewable acceleration areas into planning law; if so, when this will be done; and if it will require primary legislation or regulations. [22853/24]

2024-05-15

VOTE

Affordable Housing · 3 divisions

✗ voted against the motion the motion motion passed · 66–47
✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion passed · 66–47
✓ voted for a sub-amendment motion failed · 47–65

2024-05-14

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to set out the rules regarding renting and receiving HAP where the rental property belongs to a family member; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21515/24]

2024-05-14

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of units delivered to date or in the delivery pipeline using the serviced sites fund; and the location of the units and the average SSF allocation per unit per scheme, in tabular form. [21781/24]

2024-05-14

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of units delivered to date or in the delivery pipeline using the affordable housing fund; the location of the units; and the average AHF allocation or allocation range per unit per scheme, in tabular form. [21782/24]

2024-05-14

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of leased social housing properties funded by his Department via SHCEP at the end of 2023; the total cost to the State in 2023; and a breakdown of different lease types (details supplied) other with the full cost for each of these sub sets in 2023, in tabular form.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21878/24]

2024-05-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average cost per unit of accommodation for each of the social housing funding schemes to the Exchequer in 2023, in tabular form. [20976/24]

2024-05-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reasons for unsuccessful/incomplete repair and lease applications since the beginning of the scheme, by year, by local authority area, in tabular form. [20977/24]

2024-05-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if any analysis into the reasons for unsuccessful repair and lease applications has been commissioned/undertaken by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20978/24]

2024-05-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of tenant-in-situ scheme purchases that have been completed; the number that are in progress; and the number of failed purchases in 2023, by local authority area, in tabular form. [20979/24]

2024-05-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reasons for unsuccessful/incomplete tenant-in-situ purchases. [20980/24]

2024-05-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of properties purchased by local authorities under the compulsory purchase order activation programme; and how many of these properties have been allocated to households on the social housing waiting list. [20981/24]

2024-05-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average cost of properties compulsorily purchased by local authorities, by local authority area, in tabular form. [20982/24]

2024-05-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average cost of HAP properties in 2023, by local authority area, in tabular form. [20983/24]

2024-05-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the breakdown of spending on homelessness by his Department in 2023, in tabular form; and the amount spent on prevention. [20984/24]

2024-05-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of units provided to date under the Supported Housing for Youth pilot programme; and the spend on the programme by his Department to date. [20985/24]

2024-05-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of households currently on the social housing transfer list, by local authority area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20986/24]

2024-05-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he has engaged with the HAP Shared Services Centre on the number of households paying top-up payments to their landlord; and the average of cost of these top-up payments. [20987/24]

2024-05-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of long-term social housing leases in place in 2023 and the total cost of these leases in that year. [20206/24]

2024-05-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of long-term social housing leases in place in 2021, 2022 and 2023; the annual cost of these leases; and the allocation for such leases in 2024. [20551/24]

2024-05-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average all in cost to the Exchequer for social housing acquisitions purchased in 2023 via the social housing investment programme. [20750/24]

2024-05-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average all in cost to the Exchequer fand the average full development cost for social housing acquisitions purchased in 2023 via the capital advance leasing facility. [20751/24]

2024-04-30

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average all in cost to the Exchequer for social housing acquisitions purchased in 2023 with a breakdown, by local authority with the number of acquisitions and the average cost in each local authority area. [19303/24]

2024-04-30

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his Department has plans to progress the proposal for a Liffey Valley park (details supplied); and if so, if he will outline the status of the project and a timeline for commencement. [19493/24]

2024-04-18

PQ

Asked Finance

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Finance if stamp duty is paid on any Part V, affordable housing fund turnkey purchase or CREL-funded turnkey purchase homes. [17190/24]

2024-04-16

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to set out in tabular form the percentage of all in development costs per unit of social or affordable housing paid by his Department to local authorities and Approved Housing for the SHIP, CALF, CAS, AHF, and CREL schemes. [16106/24]

2024-04-16

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his Department has undertaken any analysis of likely future trends in construction sector inflation and how it pertains to the funding commitments under the Government housing plan to 2030. [16418/24]

2024-04-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to explain why he missed all of his affordable housing targets in 2023. [15880/24]

2024-04-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage what he intends to do to address rising levels of homelessness; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15881/24]

2024-04-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on the growing concerns among impacted homeowners with the defective concrete block grant scheme. [15882/24]

2024-04-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he intends to publish the report from the Housing Commission on the right to housing. [15610/24]

2024-04-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on the cost rental tenant in situ scheme and the residential tenancies (right to purchase) Bill. [15607/24]

2024-04-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on the delivery of affordable homes in Poolbeg west SDZ. [15608/24]

2024-04-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on the legislation for the Celtic Tiger era defective home redress scheme. [15609/24]

2024-04-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to confirm that the review of housing targets currently under way between his Department and the ERSI will explicitly include consideration of existing unmet housing demand including existing unmet demand for social, cost rental and affordable purchase homes. [15611/24]

2024-04-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to explain the delay in publishing and introducing the Marine Protected Areas Bill, and to set out the impact this delay will have on the development of offshore wind energy projects. [13950/24]

2024-04-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on his Department's audit of vacant and derelict homes across the State; the number of vacant and derelict homes brought back into active use in 2023, broken down by delivery stream, that is refurbishment grant, council CPO, and so on, in tabular form. [14373/24]

2024-04-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on his Department's audit of vacant and derelict homes across the State; the number of vacant and derelict homes brought back into active use in 2023, broken down by delivery stream, that is refurbishment grant, council CPO, and so on, in tabular form. [14373/24]

2024-04-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing; Local Government and Heritage to list the dates on which he or any of his advisors has met with representatives of an organisation (details supplied) since May 2023; to detail the issues that were raised by the organisation; and to confirm whether issues related to Wicklow County Council’s refusal of a planning application by the organisation for 98 homes in Greystones, County Wicklow in May 2023 were discussed at any of these meetings. [14578/24]

2024-04-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing; Local Government and Heritage whether he, any of his advisors or any of the officials working on the Planning and Development Bill 2023 revised written or oral submissions from an organisation (details supplied) or its representatives on the wording of Government Amendment No. 605 to the Planning and Development Bill 2023, as discussed at Select Committee on 21 February 2024. [14579/24]

2024-04-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a breakdown of the 1830 social housing acquisitions in 2023, by categories, vacant acquisitions, tenant-in-situ acquisitions, buy and renew acquisitions and mortgage-to-rent acquisitions; and to provide a breakdown of each category, by local authority. [14999/24]

2024-04-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a breakdown of the 8110 social housing new builds delivered in 2023, by delivery streams, SHIP construction, SHIP turnkey, CALF construction, CALF turnkey, CAS construction, CAS turnkey, Local Authority Part V, Approved Housing Body Part V and regeneration and PPP. [15000/24]

2024-04-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average cost of affordable homes delivered in 2023 under the Affordable Housing Fund (total cost and AHF cost), the Cost Rental Equity Loan (total cost and CREL cost) and LDA cost rental. [15001/24]

2024-04-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average cost per unit of new-build social housing delivered in 2023, broken down by SHIP construction, SHIP turnkey, CALF construction (including full cost and CALF cost), CALF turnkey (including full cost and CALF cost), CAS construction, CAS turnkey, Local Authority Part V, AHB Part V, acquisition, Affordable Housing Fund (including full cost and AHF cost), Cost Rental Equity Loan (including full cost and CREL cost), in tabular form. [15017/24]

2024-04-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a list of all ASGs and POs in his Department with their current responsibilities. [15378/24]

2024-03-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the final outturn of expenditure for Vote 34 for 2023, with a breakdown by each sub heading and individual spending programme within each sub head, in tabular from. [13298/24]

2024-03-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide in tabular form the average cost per unit of new build social housing delivered in 2023 broken down by SHIP construction, SHIP turnkey, CALF construction, CALF turnkey, CAS construction, CAS turnkey, Local Authority Part V and AHB Part V and PPP. [11684/24]

2024-03-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on the review of Part B of the Building Regulations and the associated technical guidance documents, the reason the deadline of Q4 2023 was not met for the publication of the new regulations; the date they will be published; and if he will provide a list of all those individuals and organisations who made submissions to the public consultation. [11911/24]

2024-03-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of staff employed by the National Parks and Wildlife Service; the number of staff employed at each grade; and to outline the average wage and entry wage for each grade, in tabular form. [12301/24]

2024-03-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason none of the housing agency tenant in-situ purchases have been converted into cost rental tenancies to date; and the steps his Department is taking to address this delay. [12848/24]

2024-03-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of supported housing units funded by his Department to date; the number funded through funding streams (details supplied); and if the information on the total number of such units is not available, the units funded for each year from 2016 to 2023, in tabular form. [12928/24]

2024-03-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to publish the Indecon report commissioned by the Department into the land value sharing tax that was discussed by officials during the pre-legislative scrutiny hearings with the Oireachtas Housing Committee during May 2023. [10569/24]

2024-03-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total expenditure in 2023 on social and affordable housing funded through SHIP, CALF, CAS, AHF, CREL, AHB borrowing and LDA expenditure. [10570/24]

2024-02-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average cost to the Exchequer in 2023, per unit of accommodation, for housing schemes (details supplied), in tabular form. [8674/24]

2024-02-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the policy rationale for applying corporation tax at the rate of 25% to LDA rental profits; and if this policy decision was made following engagement with the European Commission. [8698/24]

2024-02-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage how the equity portion of an affordable home delivered under the affordable housing fund is represented in the registration of the purchase price of the property with the Property Price Register. [8700/24]

2024-02-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 290 of 1 February 2024, the number of cases that were unsuccessful in meeting the threshold required by the Office of the Chief State Solicitor to progress to prosecution, broken down by county for each of the years 2019-2023. [9223/24]

2024-02-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the categories of people who are eligible for postal voting. [7583/24]

2024-02-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the additional measures he plans to introduce in 2024 to address the deepening homelessness crisis. [7243/24]

2024-02-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of affordable homes delivered in 2023 via the affordable housing fund, the cost rental equity loan and the Land Development Agency's Project Tosaigh; and his views on the rising rents and house prices under these schemes. [7244/24]

2024-02-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on both the provision of emergency funding for multi-unit developments with building defects and the legislation to underpin the full defective buildings redress scheme. [6825/24]

2024-02-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on the low number of applications to the revised defective concrete block remediation scheme and the slow rate of processing existing applications that have transferred to the new scheme. [6824/24]

2024-02-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on the implementation of the recommendations of the expert group report on Traveller accommodation. [6823/24]

2024-02-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his Department’s response to the recent Health Research Board’s report into mortality among single homeless people. [6822/24]

2024-02-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on the constitutional referenda on the right to housing and public ownership of water. [6821/24]

2024-02-14

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if it is the Government's intention to seek representatives of his Department and/or the Department of Finance on the LDA board or whether the new board positions will be advertised via the PAS. [6820/24]

2024-02-14

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is aware of the establishment and use of a designated activity company by Clare County Council to delivery affordable homes in Ennis; his views on the use of DACs in such circumstances; and if their use required Ministerial or Departmental approval. [6833/24]

2024-02-07

PQ

Asked Public Expenditure

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the AEV and REV, including details of all individual spending programmes under each subhead for 2023 and 2024 for the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, in tabular form. [5256/24]

2024-02-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total expenditure in 2023 on social and affordable housing funded through SHIP, CALF, CAS, AHF, CREL, AHB borrowing and LDA expenditure. [5257/24]

2024-02-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is preparing legislation to address issues of habitual residency and social housing support eligibility; and if so, the purpose and potential scope of the legislation. [5258/24]

2024-02-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of owners' management companies that have applied for the interim emergency funding for buildings with defects that was open for application in December 2023. [5259/24]

2024-02-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage what subvention is available to the Land Development Agency to help it ensure that its rents are at least 25% below market rent; the number of applications received by the LDA for any such subvention; and the amount committed to date for this subvention. [5260/24]

2024-02-01

PQ

Asked Finance

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Finance the tax treatment of rental income from local authority and approved housing body social tenancies and rental income from local authority, approved housing body and Land Development Agency rental tenancies. [4840/24]

2024-02-01

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he agrees that the level of successful prosecutions of wildlife crime is too low; that expectations of at least 200 prosecutions per year have not been reached, despite substantially more legislation and increased monitoring being in place; if the reason for the lack of prosecutions (details supplied), especially with regard to Ireland’s commitments under the new UN ’30 x 30’ Biodiversity Goals and new National Biodiversity Action Plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4752/24]

2024-02-01

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a breakdown of the number of prosecutions for wildlife crimes by county for each of the years 2019 to 2023. [4900/24]

2024-02-01

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to outline the function of the Wildlife Crime Committee within the National Parks and Wildlife Service; to provide an update on what progress it has made, and measures taken to address noticeable discrepancy between regions in the number of prosecutions taken. [4901/24]

2024-02-01

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage what qualifications are required on recruitment and what further in-house training is given to the administration and field staff of NPWS to effectively carry out the function of implementation and enforcement of the various wildlife-related legislation, including the Wildlife Acts 1976 to 2018, the European Communities (Birds and Natural Habitats) Regulations 2011, the European Communities (Wildlife Act 1976)(Amendment) Regulations 1986 and the European Communities (Birds and Natural Habitats)(Restrictions on the use of Poison Bait) Regulations 2010. [4902/24]

2024-01-30

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a breakdown of the new build social housing delivered in the first three quarters of 2023, by scheme type (details supplied) in tabular form. [3794/24]

2024-01-30

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average cost of a new build social home delivered via turnkey in 2023, broken down by local authority, in tabular form. [3795/24]

2024-01-30

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average cost of a new build social home delivered via SHIP construction in 2023, broken down by local authority, in tabular form. [3796/24]

2024-01-30

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide in tabular form the average cost of a new build social home delivered via CALF construction in 2023 broken down by local authority. [3798/24]

2024-01-30

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide in tabular form the average cost of a new build social home delivered via Part V in 2023 broken down by local authority. [3799/24]

2024-01-30

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage whether he intends to appoint any new members to the LDA board including representatives from his Department or Finance or Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform. [3934/24]

2024-01-24

VOTE

Housing and Homeless Prevention · 2 divisions

✗ voted against the motion the motion motion passed · 70–59
✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion passed · 71–58

2024-01-23

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the first home shared equity loan can be combined with a local authority mortgage for the purchase of a new build property and if so, if he will outline the rules. [2424/24]

2024-01-23

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to set out in tabular form the number of new applications to the enhanced defective block redress scheme; the number of transfers from the old scheme; where these applications are at in terms of the stages of the process; the number who have drawn down funds to date; and the number who have drawn down their full grant, broken down by local authority area and year. [2523/24]

2024-01-23

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on the NSAI review of IS 465. [2524/24]

2024-01-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of vacant and derelict home refurbishment grants drawn in 2023 and the average value of the grants drawn down. [2227/24]

2024-01-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of local authority mortgages that were drawn down in 2023 and the average value of the mortgages drawn down. [2228/24]

2024-01-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of first home scheme shared equity loans drawn down in 2023 and the average amount of the draw down. [2229/24]

2024-01-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total expenditure in 2023 on social and affordable housing funded through SHIP, CALF, CAS, AHF, CREL, AHB borrowing and LDA expenditure. [2230/24]

2024-01-17

PQ

Asked Finance

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Finance if VAT applies to social and affordable housing funded by his Department and delivered by councils and approved housing bodies; and if, in those cases where VAT does apply, he will outline whether such charges could be waived to allow the delivery of social and affordable homes at lower cost. [57224/23]

2024-01-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage a list of affordable housing fund approvals by his Department broken down by local authority and detailing the number of units in each scheme, the location of each scheme, the amount of AHF per unit in each scheme and confirmation of those schemes completed where the AHF has been drawn down, in tabular form. [2231/24]

2024-01-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of applications for the social housing tenant-in-situ scheme to date in 2023; the number of applications rejected; the number being processed; the number sale agreed; and the number where sales have concluded, in tabular form. [56291/23]

2024-01-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to set out the details of the Cabinet agreement of 20 December 2023 on the recapitalisation of the Land Development Agency, including the total proposed increase in their capitalisation and a breakdown of the sources of funding for the additional capitalisation agreed, including ISIF, share sales (details supplied), Exchequer funding and private borrowing. [57222/23]

2024-01-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage what types of evaluations were carried out before authorising the purchase of Dowth Hall. [1312/24]

2024-01-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage what steps are proposed or already being taken to end farming practices and other exploitation at Dowth Hall, in line with the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) designation for national parks which obliges NPWS to take steps "to prevent or eliminate as soon as possible exploitation or occupation in the whole area and to enforce effectively the respect of ecological, geomorphological or aesthetic features which have led to its establishment". [1313/24]

2024-01-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a list of all affordable housing schemes that have drawn down their affordable housing fund, by the name of the scheme, the local authority responsible for the scheme and the amount of AHF per unit in each scheme, in tabular form. [1781/24]

2023-12-12

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of Tusla/CAS social housing units delivered by AHBs for care leavers and others delivered in each year since Tusla/CAS was created, by local authority area; and the average cost of such units by local authority area and year, in tabular form. [55121/23]

2023-12-12

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to set out the implications in terms of the calculation of differential rent and social housing income eligibility for a HAP tenant who comes into an inheritance of €20,000, €50,000 and €70,000. [54588/23]

2023-12-12

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason Tusla/CAS social housing units delivered by AHBs for care leavers are not included in his Departments social housing target and delivery figures. [55120/23]

2023-12-12

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on the additional capitalisation for the Land Development Agency, including whether the funding will be provided via ISIF, HFA, Exchequer revenue or a combination of these and other sources; how much additional capitalisation is expected; and when a decision will be made on this matter. [55318/23]

2023-12-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to outline the details of the financial support package for a trust (details supplied) agreed at Cabinet last week; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54356/23]

2023-12-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of affordable homes delivered via the affordable housing fund, the cost rental equity loan and Project Tosaigh by the end of quarter 3 of this year; and to estimate the number of homes that will be delivered via these schemes by the end of the year. [54357/23]

2023-12-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to publish his Department's AEV and REV for 2023, including all of the individual spending programmes under each subhead, to publish the AEV for 2024 including all of the individual spending programmes under each subhead; and to give a commitment to publish the REV for 2024 when it is complete including all of the individual spending programmes under each subhead. [54147/23]

2023-12-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide in tabular form a list of all completed cost-rental housing schemes delivered to date by the Land Development Agency and Approved Housing Bodies including the name of each development; the local authority in which each scheme is located; the number of units in each scheme including a unit bedroom number breakdown; and the monthly rent charged for each unit by size in each scheme. [54151/23]

2023-12-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when emergency funding for interim fire safety and other measures for homeowners and OMCs with Celtic tiger era building defects will be made available. [54149/23]

2023-12-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he intends to bring forward legislation to give effect to the planning recommendations of the Expert Group on Traveller Accommodation published in 2019 [54148/23]

2023-12-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide in tabular form a list of all completed housing schemes funded via the Affordable Housing Fund including the name of each scheme; the local authority area in which the scheme is located; the number of units in each scheme including a unit bedroom number breakdown; the purchase price of each unit by size in each scheme; and the cost of the State's equity share for each unit by size in each scheme. [54150/23]

2023-12-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to confirm that applicants to the first defective concrete block remediation scheme on transfer to the revised defective concrete block remediation scheme will be eligible for grant levels based on the most up-to-date SCSI square meter rates. [53449/23]

2023-12-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to confirm when he intends to publish a summary commentary on the Mulcahy report into allegations of planning irregularities in County Donegal. [53450/23]

2023-12-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to confirm if funding for interim fire safety works will be provided to homeowners or OMCs impacted by building defects before 31 January 2023. [53451/23]

2023-12-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a list of all correspondence, including dates, to and from the franchise section in his Department and the European Commission on Part 4 and Part 5 of the Electoral Reform Act from 2022 to the present; and to make a statement on the contents of this correspondence and to publish this correspondence on the Department’s website. [53452/23]

2023-11-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide, in tabular form, the number of section 179A social housing planning exemptions that have secured stage 1 approval from his Department, broken down by local authority, and including location and number of units in each scheme; and further, to indicate how many of these schemes have commenced construction. [52731/23]

2023-11-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of meetings between his officials led by organisations (details supplied) in 2022 and 2023 on the issue of the financial sustainability of homeless services and the review of funding arrangements in the homeless sector; the dates on which those meetings occurred; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52058/23]

2023-11-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason the proposed review of section 10 funding for homeless services that was agreed in 2021 did not proceed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52059/23]

2023-11-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to set out the detail of the review of homeless services recently initiated in the wake of the revelations regarding funding issues at an organisation (details supplied); who is conducting the review; the terms of reference of the review; the timeline for the review; and if he will consider the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage playing a role in public consideration of the outcome of this review. [52063/23]

2023-11-23

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to confirm the number of Section 179A social housing planning applications that are currently under way; and to provide a table, by local authority, listing the individual planning proposals and number of social homes involved and where decisions have been made or are pending. [51787/23]

2023-11-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the date on which homeowners with building defects can apply for emergency funding for interim fire safety and other structural defects remedial work in advance of the introduction of the full defective building redress scheme; and when the emergency funding will be paid. [51227/23]

2023-11-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of local authority home loan applications, approvals and drawdowns in each year from 2019 to date in 2023, in tabular form. [50652/23]

2023-11-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the cost to his Department for the production of the video screened at the start of the press conference launching the Housing for All Q3 Progress Report held on 14 November 2023; the company that provides the video; and if other details will be provided of a contractual or service level agreement with this company currently in place with his Department. [50788/23]

2023-11-16

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of exits from homelessness accommodation funded by his Department in each quarter from 2019 to Q3 2023 including a breakdown by local authority area and by single persons and families with children, in tabular form. [50423/23]

2023-11-14

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the public funding will be released in order that the Donegal defective block (Mica) pilot schemes (local authority and AHB) can commence. [49367/23]

2023-11-14

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on the process of developing and agreeing Designated Marine Area Plans, including the breakdown of areas to be mapped, timeline for publication of draft maps, process for agreeing maps and details of the extent of public consultation in this process. [49539/23]

2023-11-14

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on the publication of the General scheme of the Marine Protected Areas Bill. [49540/23]

2023-11-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an explanation for the ongoing delay in the provision of emergency funding for essential fire safety and other works for homeowners with Celtic Tiger-era building defects; and the reason for the delay with the drafting of the legislation underpinning the full redress scheme. [49143/23]

2023-11-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of affordable homes delivered by Q3 of 2023 by local authorities, approved housing bodies and the LDA under the affordable housing fund, the cost-rental equity loan and Project Tosaigh. [49144/23]

2023-11-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to confirm when he intends to publish the report from the Housing Commission on the right to housing; and when he intends to bring a memo to Cabinet on the issue of the referendum on the right to housing. [49145/23]

2023-11-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on the delivery of 9,100 new-build social homes in 2023. [49054/23]

2023-11-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on the implementation of the recommendations of the Expert Group on Traveller Accommodation. [49051/23]

2023-11-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on the revised defective concrete block redress scheme. [49053/23]

2023-11-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on the social and cost-rental tenant-in-situ schemes, including the number of purchases to date. [49050/23]

2023-11-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on the delivery of affordable homes in Poolbeg West SDZ and St. Michael’s Estate. [49052/23]

2023-11-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide the final Revised Estimates Volume for Vote 34, Housing, Local Government and Heritage, from Budget 2023, as finalised in December 2022, with a breakdown for each programme subhead and individual spending programme, both capital and current; and to provide a note detailing any subsequent change to this estimate made during the course of 2023. [49126/23]

2023-11-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the final capital allocations in 2023 for local authority social housing, capital assistance scheme and capital loan facility; and to set these final capital allocations for 2023 against the capital allocations for each of the three heads for 2024, in tabular form. [48903/23]

2023-11-08

VOTE

Housing · 2 divisions

✗ voted against the motion the motion motion passed · 67–53
✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion passed · 67–53

2023-11-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his Department has received or approved a capitalisation request from the Land Development Agency for additional capitalisation beyond the monies sanctioned to date under the terms of the Land Development Agency Act 2021. [47494/23]

2023-11-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his Department has requested capitalisation for the Land Development Agency for additional capitalisation beyond the monies sanctioned to date under the terms of the Land Development Agency Act 2021; if so, when; from which agency; and the amount. [47496/23]

2023-11-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a breakdown of Vote 34 in budget 2024, providing the total capital and current expenditure for each individual programme within heads A, B, C, D, E and F, and a summary of the housing Vote group breakdown. [47530/23]

2023-11-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount of funding allocated to the STAR investment programme for 2024; if this is voted Government expenditure or funded through some other mechanism; and if so, how it is accounted for in the general Government balance. [47531/23]

2023-11-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of social housing units delivered by AHBs accessing the CLSS loans where the loans have now been fully repaid; the total number of social housing units delivered by AHBs accessing the CLSS loans where the loans or part of the loans remain outstanding; to provide a timeline for this second category of CLSS loans, indicating the number of properties where loans will be repaid in full for each year until all CLSS loans have been repaid; the total number of units of social housing delivered by AHBs with CALF funding; and to provide a timeline for CALF loans, indicating the number of properties where loans will be repaid in full for each year until all CALF loans have been repaid, in tabular form. [47537/23]

2023-11-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a breakdown of the total number of active HAP tenancies in each local authority for the most recent date available. [47546/23]

2023-11-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a breakdown of the €250 million URDF funding announced in budget 2024, by specific funding scheme that is, refurbishment grant. [47547/23]

2023-11-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a breakdown of the Croí Cónaithe funding announced in budget 2024, by Croí Cónaithe towns and Croí Cónaithe cities funds. [47548/23]

2023-11-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a breakdown of the additional €10 million provided for planning matters in budget 2024; the amount for An Bord Pleanála, for local authorities and the training initiative; and if possible, to provide a further breakdown of posts being funded for ABP and local authorities. [47549/23]

2023-11-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a breakdown of the €9 million additional funding announced in budget 2024, detailing how much of this funding is for adaptation grants for older people and how much is for refurbishment of Traveller accommodation. [47550/23]

2023-11-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total expenditure in 2022 and to date in 2023 on social and affordable housing funded through SHIP, CALF, CAS, AHF, CREL, AHB borrowing and LDA expenditure. [47551/23]

2023-11-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a breakdown of the capital allocation of €5 billion for social and affordable housing in Budget 2024 by the following categories: SHIP, CALF, CAS, AHF, CREL, AHB borrowing and LDA expenditure. [47552/23]

2023-11-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of additional housing first tenancies that will be provided in 2024 with the additional capital allocation of €35 million announced in budget 2024. [47553/23]

2023-11-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage how much of the additional €55 million for affordable housing announced in budget 2024 will be for the affordable housing fund and the cost rental equity loan; the total amount of funding for these two funds allocated in 2024; and the number of units expected to be delivered through these funds in 2024. [47554/23]

2023-11-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total approved capitalisation approved by Government to date; the dates on which these capitalisations were approved; the amounts of this capitalisation drawn down to date; the total additional borrowing capacity permissible by the LDA in addition to this capitalisation; and the amount of this borrowing approved and drawn down to date. [47555/23]

2023-11-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total amount of general Government capital expenditure on social and affordable housing by local authorities, approved housing bodies and the Land Development Agency, to date in 2023, by funding via voted-Government capital expenditure, approved housing body-borrowing for capital developments and LDA capital expenditure in each of those years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47556/23]

2023-11-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when funding will be available for interim and emergency fire safety works for homeowners with Celtic Tiger-era building defects. [47557/23]

2023-11-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the draft legislation for the Celtic Tiger-era building defects redress scheme will be published. [47558/23]

2023-11-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a list of all projects under the ready to build (serviced sites) scheme, whether underway or completed, broken down by local authority, size and current status of the project. [47974/23]

2023-11-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if land currently owned by a State agency and not zoned residential would be eligible under the ready to build (serviced sites) scheme prior to a material contravention being made. [47975/23]

2023-11-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if prospective homeowners can access the enhanced help-to-buy scheme to build a home on a serviced site developed under the ready to build (serviced sites) scheme. [47976/23]

2023-11-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total amount of voted capital expenditure for the sustainable tenancy affordable rent investment initiative in 2024; and whether approved housing bodies can apply for the funding. [48302/23]

2023-11-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a breakdown of the capital and current budget allocations for each of the programmes included in Vote 34, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, for 2024, in tabular form. [48550/23]

2023-11-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if local authority adaptation grants are available to tenants of approved housing bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48781/23]

2023-11-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage with respect to the carryover of €240 million to Programme A – Housing Capital in Vote 34 from Budget 2022 to Budget 2023, to provide a breakdown by specific housing programme including local authority housing, CAS, CALF, CREL, AHF, CC and FHS. [48796/23]

2023-10-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of social housing units delivered by AHBs accessing the capital loan and subsidy scheme loans where the loans have now been fully repaid, in tabular form; the total number of social housing units delivered by AHBs accessing the CLSS loans where the loans or part of the loans remain outstanding; to provide a timeline for this second category of CLSS loans, indicating the number of properties where loans will be repaid in full for each year until all CLSS loans have been repaid; the total number of units of social housing delivered by AHBs with capital advance leading facility funding; and if he will provide a timeline for CALF loans, indicating the number of properties where loans will be repaid in full for each year until all CALF loans have been repaid. [46803/23]

2023-10-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total amount of general Government capital expenditure on social and affordable housing, by local authorities, approved housing bodies and the Land Development Agency to date in 2023, by funding via voted Government capital expenditure, approved housing body borrowing for capital developments and LDA capital expenditure in each of those years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46169/23]

2023-10-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when funding will be available for interim and emergency fire safety works for homeowners with Celtic Tiger era building defects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46197/23]

2023-10-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the draft legislation for the Celtic Tiger era building defects redress scheme be published. [46198/23]

2023-10-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of social housing leases currently being funded by his Department with a breakdown of the number of units in each leasing category that is, long-term leasing, enhanced leasing, mortgage to rent, lease to own, and so on; and the total cost per year of each of these categories, in tabular form. [46199/23]

2023-10-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the legislation underpinning the first right of refusal for private renters to purchase their rental homes when the landlord is selling will be published [46200/23]

2023-10-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount of the €65 million allocated for defects in budget 2023 that has been spent to date with a breakdown on how much was spent on pyrite remediation, defective block and any other category, in tabular form. [46201/23]

2023-10-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of applications for the Croí Cónaithe towns refurbishment grant; the total number of approvals; the total number of drawdowns; and a further breakdown by local authority area with average grant levels per local authority area, in tabular form. [46204/23]

2023-10-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 312 and 332 of 17 October 2023, how the figures contained in the response regarding LDA capitalisation relate to the figures of €663,850 million for 2023 and €990,137 million for 2024 as set out in the votes and non-voted capital expenditure table in page 224 of the Budget 2024 expenditure report; and if these figures relate to ISIF capitalisation or LDA borrowing. [46609/23]

2023-10-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to confirm that New Era is undertaking a review of the LDA; to confirm the terms of reference of that review; and to state when it will be completed and when it will be published. [45563/23]

2023-10-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he will be bringing a memo to Cabinet regarding the issue of alleged historic planning irregularities in County Donegal. [45562/23]

2023-10-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total capitalisation of the Land Development Agency to date; the dates on which the capitalisation took place; the amounts of funding allocated on each of these dates; and how these funds are allocated both in terms of voted Government expenditure and the general Government balance. [44747/23]

2023-10-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to outline his understanding of the financial and governance issues currently taken place within an organisation (details supplied); the amounts of money involved separate to the outstanding income tax bill; whether the organisation will require additional Government funding in 2023; if so, the estimated amount; whether the Governments funding model for homeless services providers has created an environment where these organisations are under pressure to cross subsidise their SLA funding in a manner which may create increased or inappropriate risk in the management of their finances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44748/23]

2023-10-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to confirm the date on which he provided Ministerial approval to Waterways Ireland for the introduction of the issuing of NR-EMP and R-EMP permits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44750/23]

2023-10-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount of funding allocated to the STAR investment programme for 2024; if this is voted Government expenditure or funded through some other mechanism; and if so, to explain how it is accounted for in the general Government balance. [44903/23]

2023-10-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a breakdown of the total number of active HAP tenancies in each local authority for the most recent date available. [44965/23]

2023-10-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a breakdown of the €250 million URDF funding announced in Budget 2024 by specific funding scheme, i.e. refurbishment grant. [44966/23]

2023-10-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a breakdown of the croí cónaithe funding announced in Budget 2024 by croí cónaithe towns and croí cónaithe cities funds. [44967/23]

2023-10-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a breakdown of the additional €10 million provided for planning matters in Budget 2024, indicating how much is for An Bord Pleanála, for local authorities and the training initiative; and if possible, to provide a further breakdown of posts being funded for ABP and local authorities. [44968/23]

2023-10-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a breakdown of the €9m additional funding announced in Budget 2024, detailing how much of this funding is for adaptation grants for older people and how much is for refurbishment of traveller accommodation. [44969/23]

2023-10-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total expenditure in 2022 and to date to date in 2023, on social and affordable housing funded through SHIP, CALF, CAS, AHF, CREL, AHB borrowing and LDA expenditure. [44979/23]

2023-10-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a breakdown of the capital allocation of €5 billion for social and affordable housing in Budget 2024 by the following categories, SHIP, CALF, CAS, AHF, CREL and AHB borrowing and LDA expenditure. [44980/23]

2023-10-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of additional housing first tenancies that will be provided in 2024 with the additional capital allocation of €35 million announced in Budget 2024. [44981/23]

2023-10-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage how much of the additional €55 million for affordable housing announced in Budget 2024 will be for the affordable housing fund and the cost rental equity loan;the total amount of funding for these two funds allocated in 2024, and the number of units expected to be delivered through these funds in 2024. [44982/23]

2023-10-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total approved capitalisation approved by Government to date; the dates on which these capitalisations were approved; the amounts of this capitalisation drawn down to date; the total additional borrowing capacity permissible by the LDA in addition to this capitalisation; and the amount of this borrowing approved and drawn down to date. [44991/23]

2023-10-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his attention has been drawn to a significant delay in HAP and HHAP payments being made to landlords from local authorities; if he is aware that tenants in these cases have not received information from HAP services regarding their own rent contributions; the reason for the delays; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43407/23]

2023-10-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of social housing tenant-in-situ purchases that have been completed broken down, by local authority for 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [43563/23]

2023-10-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on the new national park; to outline, in tabular form, the rent which the previous owners will pay for continued use of the land for research purposes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43725/23]

2023-10-03

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to confirm whether his officials are working on legislation relating to the statutory definition of homelessness or other aspects of homeless in legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42155/23]

2023-10-03

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he intends to publish the revised rural planning guidelines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42156/23]

2023-10-03

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of social homes delivered in the first half of 2023, with a breakdown by delivery stream including: SHIP construction; SHIP turnkey; CALF construction; CALF turnkey; CAS construction; CAS turnkey; Part V; PPP; regeneration; and Traveller-specific. [42229/23]

2023-09-27

VOTE

Affordable Housing

✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion passed · 68–53

2023-09-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on his Department’s efforts to ensure the delivery of affordable purchase and cost rental accommodation in the Poolbeg west SDZ, including the number of such units that will be made available in the initial phase and the price to buy and rent those units. [40868/23]

2023-09-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on his Department’s efforts to ensure the delivery of cost rental accommodation on the O’Devaney Gardens and Oscar Traynor Road sites, including the number of such units that will be made available; and the expected rent for those units. [40870/23]

2023-09-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of requests made by South Dublin County Council to his Department to purchase land in its administrative area; where these lands were; and the response of his Department to these requests. [40871/23]

2023-09-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the additional €75.4 million increase in local property tax funding to local authorities in 2024 has come from increased LPT tax take, increased revenue allocation, or a mixture of both; and if the latter, to provide a breakdown. [39702/23]

2023-09-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of contracts approved by his Department to be signed by the Housing Agency under the croí cónaithe scheme; the number of units involved in each contract; and a timeline for when it is expected that these units will be completed, broken down by scheme. [39703/23]

2023-09-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of new applications for the defective block remediation scheme since the enhanced schemed opened; the number of existing applications that have transferred to the new scheme to date; the total number of applications in the process, broken down by county, stage in the application process and the total amount of money drawn down in each county to date; and an update on the entry of Clare and Limerick into the scheme. [39704/23]

2023-09-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will request the LGMA to introduce a job evaluation process in the local Government sector to assist in averting the staffing crisis in our local authorities. [39705/23]

2023-09-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason no Q1 social housing pipeline report was published this year; and when the Q2 report will be published. [39706/23]

2023-09-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of new positions sanctioned at An Bord Pleánála in the past 12 months; the positions granted; the cost implications of each position; and the number of these positions that have been filled to date. [39707/23]

2023-09-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to explain the long delay in the publication of the draft rural planning guidelines; and to state when these guidelines will be published. [39828/23]

2023-09-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to set out in tabular form the progress to date with both the social and cost-rental tenant-in-situ schemes, including number of applications for each scheme, number of rejections, number gone sale agreed and number purchased, with a breakdown by local authority for both schemes. [39829/23]

2023-09-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an updated figure for the number of croí cónaithe towns refurbishment grants that have been drawn down; the number of applications made; and the number of applications approved to date. [39839/23]

2023-09-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of croí cónaithe towns refurbishment grants that have been drawn down to date, with a breakdown by local authority; and the average amount drawn down in each county and the total draw-down State wide in 2023. [40139/23]

2023-09-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to set out the rules or guidelines issued to the Housing Agency for the cost rental tenant-in-situ income eligibility test; and to explain how these rules or guidelines take into account an applicant's change of income in the previous 12 months from the date of application. [40140/23]

2023-09-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if, in light of the judgment (details supplied), he will provide in tabular form a list of all the areas where the court found there had been a failure to designate them as special areas of conservation, SACs, also indicating if they have been designated since the EU Commission issued its reasoned opinion and on what date they were designated; a list of all the Irish SACs for where there are no site-specific conservation objectives and-or conservation measures; and to indicate where these have been provided subsequent to the reasoned opinion from the Commission; what date they were made; the timeframes envisaged where gaps still persist in respect of designation or provision of site-specific conservation objectives and conservation measures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37190/23]

2023-09-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to confirm whether any new guidance has been issued by his Department to local authorities for the purposes of setting updated schemes of letting; and if so, to explain what 'not reasonably able to meet the cost of the accommodation which they are occupying' means in the updates scheme of lettings; and how this reasonableness test is assessed. [37199/23]

2023-09-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to confirm that the foreshore licence (details supplied) is still active; to whom it applies; and to confirm the status of such licence when the land/property to which such a licence applies is sold. [37245/23]

2023-09-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide, in tabular form, the number of buy-and-renew homes delivered by each local authority in the past 12 months; and the average cost to buy and refurbish the property, broken down by local authority. [37557/23]

2023-09-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason in relation to the local authority home loan income earned only in the Republic and in the North of Ireland is reckonable for eligibility for the loan; if consideration has been given to including income earned in other EU countries as reckonable; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37705/23]

2023-09-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage in relation to the Housing Adaptation Grant, the estimated cost of 12,300 applicants being awarded the grant at the highest rate available. [37710/23]

2023-09-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if changes to the Housing Adaption Grant are under consideration; if it is intended to increase grants to reflect increased construction costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37711/23]

2023-09-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to confirm that local authorities contribute 10% to the capital cost of all new build social housing (construction and turnkey), and whether they contribute 10% of the capital costs to social housing acquisitions (vacant and tenant-in-situ); and further, to confirm the capital contribution, if any, local authorities contribute to affordable homes delivered via the Affordable Housing Fund. [37746/23]

2023-09-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage that the landlord guarantee where a HAP tenant falls into differential rent arrears only applies where the tenant and HAP tenancy remain in place. [37785/23]

2023-07-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if there are any grounds on which a local authority can assess eligibility for social housing supports based on whether an applicant's private rent is above 30% of their net household income rather than the annual net household income being within the three income bands set out by his Department in January 2023; if so, when this alternative assessment was introduced; and on what circular, statutory instrument or legislation it is based. [35806/23]

2023-07-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on the provision of emergency funding for interim fire safety works in buildings with fire safety and other defects including how much funding will be made available this year; how it will be accessed; and when the funding scheme will open. [35355/23]

2023-07-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on the delivery of affordable homes under the affordable housing fund, cost rental equity loan and LDA project Tosaigh stating the number of affordable homes delivered under these schemes to date in 2023 with a breakdown by location and cost/price. [35356/23]

2023-07-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the latest social housing pipeline report will be published. [35357/23]

2023-07-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage in light of the difficulties in publishing the Mulcahy Report in certain planning matters in County Donegal, if he will publish a summary of the report outlining any relevant findings; and set out what actions he intends to take to address these findings. [35358/23]

2023-07-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to set out in tabular form a progress report on each of the eight policy asks from the Regional Independents Group during the Private Members Motion debate on 21st February 2023 (details supplied) which were incorporated into the Government’s countermotion to the Sinn Féin motion on that date. [35360/23]

2023-07-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to confirm that a position of Deputy Secretary General has been created in his Department; the reason for the creation of this position; the salary scale for this position; and the date on which the position is expected to be filled. [35361/23]

2023-07-12

VOTE

Housing and Homelessness · 2 divisions

✗ voted against the motion the motion motion passed · 76–60
✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion passed · 76–60

2023-07-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of applications and total funding sought from individual local authorities under the land acquisition fund; how much funding has been approved and drawn down to date by local authorities; and if there are plans for future land acquisition funding for local authorities. [33849/23]

2023-07-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of applications and total funding sought from approved housing bodies under the land acquisition fund; how much funding has been approved and drawn down to date by AHBs; and if there are plans for future land acquisition funding for AHBs. [33850/23]

2023-07-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the required amendments to the section 25 (2) (b) (II) of the Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Act 2019 (details supplied) will be introduced; and to detail any assessment that has taken place in terms of the impact of the new amending legislation on registrations. [33851/23]

2023-07-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage how many AHBs are currently affected by the existing wording of section 25 (2) (b) (II) of the Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Act 2019 in terms of their ability to register. [33852/23]

2023-07-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to outline a timeline for the roll-out of a scheme for approved housing bodies affected by defective concrete block. [33853/23]

2023-07-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage how much funding from the state's EU National Recovery and Resilience Plan has been earmarked and drawn down to date for the delivery of social and affordable housing; how this EU funding is being administered; and if this funding is additional to existing State funding provided through Housing For All. [33854/23]

2023-07-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage how much funding from the state's EU National Recovery and Resilience Plan has been earmarked and drawn down to date for the retrofitting of social housing. [33855/23]

2023-07-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the current status of the revolving fund established under Rebuilding Ireland and administered by the Housing Agency. [33856/23]

2023-07-06

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on his Department’s efforts to deliver the additional 15% affordable housing in the Poolbeg SDZ including whether he or his cabinet colleagues has met with NAMA and discussed the transfer of NAMAs 20% equity stake in the SDZ lands to Dublin City Council to assist them in ensuring the delivery of genuinely affordable homes in the SDZ. [33130/23]

2023-07-06

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on the completion of the single utility for water services and to outline what additional funding his Department intends to provide to cover the full costs of water service workers remaining in local authorities on their current full terms and conditions. [33134/23]

2023-07-06

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to set out in tabular form an update on the progress to date in the implementation of all 32 recommendations from the report of the Independent Group on Traveller Accommodation. [33132/23]

2023-07-06

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on the provision of emergency funding for homeowners with fire safety and other structural defects to address immediate fire safety and other structural defects risks in their properties pending the opening of the formal redress scheme for owners with Celtic Tiger era building defects. [33133/23]

2023-07-06

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on the cost-rental tenant-in-situ scheme, including the number of such properties purchased to date; the number of expressions of interest from landlords; and the number of referrals to the housing agency from local authorities. [33131/23]

2023-07-05

PQ

Asked Environment

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications whether he has met with NAMA or sought a meeting with NAMA to discuss the issue of affordable housing delivery in the Poolbeg SDZ and the possible transfer of NAMA's 20% equity stake in Poolbeg to Dublin City Council to guarantee the delivery of the extra 15% affordable homes in the SDZ. [33142/23]

2023-07-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to publish the Q2 2023 basic unit costs (BUCs), previously referred to as unit-cost ceilings and acquisition cost guidelines (ACGs) for social housing for each local authority area. [33110/23]

2023-07-04

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the most up-to-date separate capital cost ceilings and averages for each local authority for the Social Housing Investment Programme, part V, turnkey and acquisitions in tabular form; and if these ceilings have been reviewed recently or are in the process of being reviewed. [32327/23]

2023-07-04

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is concerned with the operating deficit at An Bord Pleanála; if he or his officials have had any discussions with the Bord on this deficit and if additional funding is being sought by the Bord to clear this deficit. [32328/23]

2023-07-04

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to set out the cause of the ongoing delays with respect to the croí cónaithe refurbishment grants given that a number of mortgage lenders are refusing to allow borrowers to draw down their mortgages due what the mortgage lenders say is delays at his Department, and regarding the conclusion of the detail of the terms of the scheme on foot of agreement reached between the Department and BPFI last month. [32370/23]

2023-06-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to outline the refurbishment spends and number of units in each case of Traveller accommodations, per local authority, from 2018 -2022, in tabular form. [31533/23]

2023-06-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will outline all Traveller accommodation projects currently in the pipeline; the initial dates of these projects; and their current status, in tabular form. [31534/23]

2023-06-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on the revised social housing construction and acquisition caps for local authorities and AHBs under the social housing investment programme; and if he will set out the methodology and time period used in determining the caps and revised caps. [30602/23]

2023-06-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average cost of buy-and-renew social homes delivered in Dublin city and county in 2022 and to date in 2023. [30603/23]

2023-06-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average cost of tenant in situ purchases in Dublin city and county in 2022 and to date in 2023. [30604/23]

2023-06-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total capitalisation provided to the LDA to date; the LDA's total borrowing capacity; and the plans the Government intends to make regarding these arrangements. [30611/23]

2023-06-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average unit cost of social housing acquisitions acquired in 2022 and separately to date in 2023; and to provide a breakdown of average costs, by size of unit, and by vacant unit versus tenant in situ acquisitions. [30612/23]

2023-06-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will set out each of the bundles of PPP social housing, including a list of locations and number of units in each scheme in each bundle; the stage each scheme and each bundle is at in the delivery pipeline; the total cost of the lifetime of the contract for each bundle; the list of organisations involved in each PPP consortium for each bundle; and the details of the public sector benchmark used in each of the bundles to date, in tabular form. [30901/23]

2023-06-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide details of the new cost-rental subsidy scheme, including who will be eligible to access the fund; the level of subsidy; the form of subsidy, that is, grant aid, equity and so on; whether there will be a clawback provision; and when the scheme will open to applicants. [31379/23]

2023-06-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total amount of approved housing body and local authority borrowings for social and affordable housing that was drawn down and accounted for in the Governments expenditure for 2022. [29137/23]

2023-06-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage how many new units of Traveller-specific accommodation were provided in 2022. [29164/23]

2023-06-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the review of the Adaptation Grant for Older People and People with a Disability Scheme for private houses will be published. [29165/23]

2023-06-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of cost rental tenant in situ referrals to the Housing Agency to date; the number of cost rental tenant in situ applications submitted by landlords; the number rejected by the Housing Agency; the number at valuation stage; the number at inspection stage; the number at legal/conveyancing; the number of offers made; and the number of properties purchased, in tabular form. [29237/23]

2023-06-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on the provision of emergency funding for interim measures in buildings with construction defects; and when he will publish the code of conduct on remediating fire safety defects. [29304/23]

2023-06-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the Q1 2023 social housing output report will be published. [29305/23]

2023-06-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will set out, in tabular form, the targets for affordable delivery for 2023 and 2024 under the affordable housing fund; the cost rental equity loan; project Tosaigh and the LDA direct delivery. [29306/23]

2023-06-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of part 8 derogation planning applications that have been initiated since the derogation was introduced; and if he will provide a list of the derogations, broken down by local authority, location of scheme and number of units in each scheme. [29307/23]

2023-06-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on plans to deliver 1,500 social homes using modular building technology, including a list of projects proposed to date, by local authority, with information on location and number of units involved. [29308/23]

2023-06-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a breakdown of tenant-in-situ applications and purchases, by local authority. [29309/23]

2023-06-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a list of all legislation including non-consequential amendments he intends to bring forward before the summer recess. [29315/23]

2023-06-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason the Céide Fields no longer appear on Ireland’s UNESCO world heritage tentative list; and if an application for inclusion was received for the site during the most recent application process. [29375/23]

2023-06-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of vacant and derelict homes brought back into use for each year from 2020 to 2023, in tabular form, under the following schemes with a breakdown by local authority - buy and renew, repair and lease, ready to build, refurbishment grant, CPO activation, UDF €150 million fund and over-shop/pub planning exemptions. [29795/23]

2023-06-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the targets for vacant and derelict homes to be brought back into use for each year from 2023 to 2026, in tabular form, under the following schemes with a breakdown by local authority - buy and renew, repair and lease, ready to build, refurbishment grant, CPO activation, UDF €150 million fund and over-shop/pub planning exemptions. [29796/23]

2023-06-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the restrictions currently in place for civil servants and public servants contesting local government elections. [27060/23]

2023-06-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will set out the timeline for proposed referenda due to take place this year, including the introduction of relevant legislation and dates for the holding of the referenda. [27180/23]

2023-06-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of active tenancies in the housing assistance payment scheme and rental accommodation scheme. [27719/23]

2023-06-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a list of all foreshore licence applications in County Dublin submitted in each year from 2000 to 2010, including those refused and those granted; and the current status of each granted application, in tabular form. [28469/23]

2023-05-30

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will outline his response to the Health Service Board report into deaths among people who were homeless at time of death in Ireland in 2019; and if he will set out what his Department’s response will be to the findings of the report. [25556/23]

2023-05-30

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will detail what funding heads A14 and A18 within his Department's annual voted expenditure related to; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25558/23]

2023-05-30

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide the construction costs and the all-in development costs per square meter, for social housing projects delivered via SHIP construction, SHIP turnkey, CALF construction, CALF turnkey, Part V, CAS construction and CAS turnkey, in tabular form; and if he will provide a further breakdown of this information for each local authority. [25559/23]

2023-05-30

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the staffing levels for the National Building Control Office since 2020; if he will detail all requests for additional staff from the NBCO since 2020; the additional staffing that has been sanctioned and recruited since 2020; his views on the very significant concerns expressed by the NBCO to his Department officials regarding their ability to fulfil their functions in light of the ongoing understaffing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25685/23]

2023-05-30

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will confirm from when Irish quarries and concrete producers had to comply with I.S. EN 12620 (details supplied). [25890/23]

2023-05-30

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update on the proposed policy to help protect and provide more allotments and community gardens in Ireland; if he will provide a timeline for when the policy is expected to be implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25926/23]

2023-05-30

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will set out his response to the recommendations contained in the RTB report on illegal eviction requested by him in August 2020 under section 151(2) of the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 and the additional recommendations set out by the RTB in its cover letter to him of 23 November 2022 accompanying the report; if he will publish the RTB report; and if he will set out a timeline for any legislation that he intends to publish on foot of the report. [26112/23]

2023-05-30

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update on the extension of the €14,000 rent-a-room tax relief to social housing tenants; how it will interact with their differential rent both in terms of how the income of the licensee will be treated and how the additional income to the social housing tenant will be treated for the purposes of determining their differential rent; and the timeline for bringing the formalised scheme to Cabinet. [26137/23]

2023-05-30

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will confirm whether changes have been made to guidance for dealing with HAP tenants in arrears in their differential rent; and if so, if he will outline the changes. [26187/23]

2023-05-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason the Government is waiting for the new Energy Performance of Buildings Directive to start requiring measurement of embodied carbon emissions (i.e. 2027), while other European Union member states, such as Denmark, are already addressing this issue, given that embodied carbon emissions from the construction industry account for 14% of Ireland’s national emissions and are likely to increase until 2030 if unaddressed. [25352/23]

2023-05-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he intends to give councils and the Housing Agency any flexibility with the income limits for cost rental tenant-in-situ scheme to ensure that applicants whose income is just over the upper income limit for cost rental are not excluded from the tenant-in-situ scheme and thus rendered homeless. [25457/23]

2023-05-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total amount of general Government capital expenditure on social and affordable housing by local authorities, approved housing bodies and the Land Development Agency in 2022 by funding via voted-Government capital expenditure, Approved Housing Body-borrowing for capital developments and LDA capital expenditure in each of those years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25472/23]

2023-05-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is aware of the sale of private properties with structural defects at a location (details supplied); if he is concerned with such sales; and if he will outline the powers, if any, he has to ensure that where properties with structural defects are being sold, there is a duty on the seller to fully declare such defects. [25198/23]

2023-05-23

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will confirm whether a Senior Counsel was appointed to pursue accountability from suppliers of defective concrete blocks; and if he will provide an update on the work of this appointed SC. [24056/23]

2023-05-23

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he intends to publish the report into planning matters in County Donegal; and if his intention is not to publish, to set out the actions that he intends to take to address the issues raised in the report. [24323/23]

2023-05-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of affordable homes he intends to deliver in 2023 and 2024 via the affordable housing fund, the cost rental equity loan, Project Tosaigh and Land Development Agency, LDA, direct delivery. [23808/23]

2023-05-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on the redress scheme for defective buildings, including when emergency funding for interim measures will be available; and the timeline for the legislation underpinning the scheme. [23809/23]

2023-05-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on the implementation of the recommendations of the Expert Group on Traveller accommodation. [23331/23]

2023-05-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on the review of Part B of the building regulations and related technical guidance documents. [23333/23]

2023-05-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on funding being provided to local authorities to cover the anticipated costs of moving to a single water utility. [23332/23]

2023-05-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on the tenant-in-situ scheme for both social and cost rental tenants, including information on the total number of applications for the scheme, applications rejected and applications being processed; and number of homes bought or with offers made. [23334/23]

2023-05-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on the delays being caused to social housing developments funded via SHIP, CALF and CAS arising from delays in his Department approving revised cost estimated caused by construction sector inflation. [23335/23]

2023-05-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of age-friendly homes delivered in each local authority, whether by the local authority, an AHB or another entity, for each year from 2016 to 2022; and the number targeted for delivery for 2023, in tabular form. [23482/23]

2023-05-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an estimated timeframe for the publication of the Planning and Development Bill 2022, and for its scheduling for second-stage debate in Dáil Éireann or Seanad Éireann. [23483/23]

2023-05-16

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide a list of all stalled capital advance loan facility-funded social housing projects, indicating the local authority in which they are located and the number of homes involved in each location; the measures he intends to take to get these projects up and running; and if he will ensure that other projects are not delayed due to excessive red tape imposed by his Department on social housing projects. [22435/23]

2023-05-16

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide a list of all organisations and individuals that have made a submission to his Department’s review of Part B of the building regulations. [22479/23]

2023-05-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his targets for the number of homes to be delivered in 2024 funded by the first home scheme, the affordable housing fund scheme, the cost rental equity loan scheme and the LDA project tosaigh. [22269/23]

2023-05-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average cost to the Exchequer in 2022, per unit of accommodation, for housing schemes (details supplied), in tabular form. [22270/23]

2023-05-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average cost to the Exchequer of buy-and-renew social homes delivered in 2022 and to date in 2023. [22271/23]

2023-05-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average cost to the Exchequer of the affordable homes delivered with the Affordable Housing Fund in 2022. [22272/23]

2023-05-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of people over 55 years currently in emergency homeless accommodation funded by his Department, with a breakdown by singles, couples and households with children. [22274/23]

2023-05-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of staff employed by An Bord Pleanála; the number of staff full-time equivalents employed at each grade in the Bord; the average cost per grade and the total current expenditure on staff at the Bord. [22275/23]

2023-05-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of additional posts sanctioned by his Department at An Bord Pleanála since January 2022; the grades approved; the number recruited; the annual cost of the staff recruited; and the full number sanctioned. [22276/23]

2023-05-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of staff employed in local authority housing departments, the number of staff full-time equivalents employed at each grade; the average cost per grade and the total expenditure on housing department staff estimated for 2023. [22277/23]

2023-05-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update on the defective block remediation scheme; the number of applicants in each of the qualifying counties; the number progressed to stage one; the number progressed to stage two; the funding approved at stage two; the funding drawn down to date; the number of applicants in each county who have received funding; and the number in each county who have drawn down their full grant to date. [22278/23]

2023-05-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of homes for the over-55s list and for rightsizing funded by his Department in 2020, 2021 and 2022; and the number due to be delivered in 2023. [22279/23]

2023-05-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated cost in a full year of the 541 full-time equivalents staff in local authority planning departments, as set out in the Business Case for Resources for the Planning Function of Local Authorities completed in Q2 2022. [22280/23]

2023-05-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide a list of all organisations and individuals consulted in advance of the publication of the general scheme of the Planning and Development (Land Value sharing and Urban Development Zones) Bill 2022; and a list of all submissions received by his Department during the preparation of this general scheme. [22008/23]

2023-05-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will confirm the allocation of the affordable housing fund for the cost rental homes to be delivered by Dublin City Council in St. Michael’s estate, Inchicore; and if he will commit to meeting local and other opposition Deputies once the planning is granted to discuss how the pre-construction phase of approval for the scheme can be expedited in a timely manner. [22011/23]

2023-05-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the maximum level of affordable housing funding under the latest iteration of the scheme; and if he will list which projects with approval have been allocated this upper limit. [22012/23]

2023-05-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update on the regulations for the enhanced defective block remediation scheme. [22013/23]

2023-05-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update on the building defects redress scheme and the provision of funding for interim and emergency works. [22014/23]

2023-05-10

VOTE

Planning and Rural Housing · 2 divisions

✗ voted against the motion the motion motion passed · 69–57
✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion passed · 68–58

2023-05-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will discuss with the Minister for Justice the issue of owner management company contracts and private owner leases in multi-unit developments preventing the sale of private apartments to local authorities for use as social housing, including through the tenant-in-situ scheme; if he will determine whether this may act as a barrier to the tenant-in-situ scheme; and, if so, if he will agree how best to remove this barrier with the Minister for Justice. [21168/23]

2023-05-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason for the delay in granting approval by his Department both for the three Part V units to be purchased by Louth County Council and the 18 turnkey units to be purchased by North and East Housing Association at Clós Émer, Saltown, Dundalk, County Louth; and the reason for the very long delay in granting cost approval for these much-needed social homes. [21171/23]

2023-05-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is aware of a stalled development of homes, some of which are intended for use as social housing (details supplied); if the council involved has made attempts to engage with the developer regarding a solution; if so, if he will indicate the outcome of that engagement; and if not, what other action is being taken to ensure the properties are completed and used as intended at the earliest opportunity. [21297/23]

2023-05-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the way in which the extension of the €14,000 rent a room tax credit to social housing tenants will interact with their differential rent both in terms of how the income of the licensee will be treated and how the additional income to the social housing tenant will be treated for the purposes of determining their differential rent. [21298/23]

2023-05-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to his announcement that an analysis into the availability of land for the delivery of social and affordable homes through to 2030 has concluded, if he will provide the estimated number of social and affordable homes for which land will have to be acquired. [21407/23]

2023-05-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to confirm the amount of funding allocated to the Land Acquisition Fund; and the estimated number of social and affordable homes for which this amount of funding could provide land. [21408/23]

2023-05-04

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the analysis into the availability of land for the delivery of social and affordable homes through to 2030 will be published; what is the additional land need in hectares broken down by local authority to deliver 24,000 social homes between now and 2030; to state how much is in the current land acquisition fund; the applications that have been made to this fund; and if the fund will be increased if demand exceeds the initial allocation. [20920/23]

2023-05-03

PQ

Asked Finance

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Finance if the 70% loan to value ratio required to avail of the help-to-buy scheme applies to the market value or discounted price of the property for a purchase of a local authority affordable home under the affordable housing fund; and, if the former, to explain the reason. [20712/23]

2023-05-03

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the budget allocation to Croí Cónaithe towns refurbishment grant scheme for 2023; and the target for delivery under this scheme in 2023. [20490/23]

2023-05-03

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the arrangements in place to ensure cross-local authority tenant-in-situ purchases proceed; and if a circular or guidance note has been issued to local authorities on this issue. [20491/23]

2023-05-03

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he intends to bring forward a Supplementary Estimate for 2023 to fund the cost rental subsidy scheme and development levies waiver; and, if so, how much the Estimate will request. [20524/23]

2023-05-03

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of tenant-in-situ purchases by local authorities since the scheme reopened in 2022, with a breakdown by local authority, in tabular form. [20713/23]

2023-05-03

PQ

Asked Justice

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Justice when the regulations on service charges and sinking funds under sections 18.17 and 19.9 of the Multi-Unit Development Act 2011, which, according to Housing for All, were supposed to be introduced by quarter 4 of 2022, will finally be introduced. [20637/23]

2023-04-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if a protocol has been put in place to facilitate inter-council tenant-in-situ purchases in cases where the tenant is living in a council area other than where their social housing list is based. [20006/23]

2023-04-26

VOTE

Department Underspend and Reduced Delivery of Affordable Housing · 2 divisions

✗ voted against the motion the motion motion passed · 68–56
✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion passed · 68–55

2023-04-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if concerns were raised by the EU Commission in respect of Part 9 of the Draft Planning and Development Bill 2022 in any engagement of his Department with the EU Commission, DG ENVI, following the publication in January of the Bill, including on sections 249 and 250, in any meetings held to date and in any associated minutes and related correspondence; if so, the concerns expressed; if he will share the minutes and correspondence in relation to same; if not, the reason; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18928/23]

2023-04-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to set out how the cost rental tenant situ scheme will work; the person or body that landlords/tenants should approach if they are interested in applying for the scheme; the eligibility criteria; and if he intends to publish a regular report on the purchases through this scheme. [19056/23]

2023-04-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is aware that some lenders are refusing to allow mortgage borrowers to draw down their mortgage in conjunction with the croí cónaithe towns refurbishment grant scheme due to uncertainty regarding the operation of the clawback provisions; his plans to resolve this matter; and the number of grant approvals and drawdowns to date broken down by local authority area. [19057/23]

2023-04-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide a breakdown of the 7,433 new-build social homes delivered in 2022, by delivery scheme, including SHIP construction, SHIP turnkey, CALF construction, CALF turnkey, CAS construction, CAS turnkey, Part V and PPP. [19060/23]

2023-04-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to confirm that all local authorities are obligated to provide AHBs developing under the capital assistance scheme in their local authority area with the applicable unit cost ceilings, if he is aware of any circumstances where this is the case; and whether has a circular or guidance been issued on the matter. [19361/23]

2023-04-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to outline the circumstances under which cost rental tenants may be eligible to access the housing assistance payment. [19362/23]

2023-04-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if local authorities have any flexibility when applying the underaccommodation rule in assessing tenant purchase applications. [16088/23]

2023-04-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to confirm the total spend on the housing assistance programme and the rental accommodation scheme for 2022. [16727/23]

2023-04-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to confirm the total spend via the social housing current expenditure programme in 2022 broken down by lease types, including: approved housing body, AHB, or capital advance leasing facility, CALF; mortgage-to-rent; Part V; private long-term lease; private enhanced lease; and any other type of lease providing expenditure for each category of leas type and the total number of leases funded in each category. [16728/23]

2023-04-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to confirm the total number of new mortgage-to-rent homes that were delivered in 2022. [16729/23]

2023-04-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to confirm the total number of new repair and lease homes that were delivered in 2022. [16730/23]

2023-04-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to confirm the total number of new buy and renew homes delivered in 2022. [16731/23]

2023-04-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to set out in tabular form a list of all notices of intention to direct local authorities under Section 31 of the Planning and Development Act to amend their draft development plan or other plans with a brief summary of the direction; and to further to set out in tabular form all cases where a recommendation of the Office of the Planning Regulator for such a draft direction was not accepted by him, again providing a summary in each case including the issue, location and rationale. [16396/23]

2023-04-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of croí cónaithe town grants drawn down to date and to explain why data for drawdowns is not included in the quarterly updates published by his Department. [16400/23]

2023-04-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to question No. 296 of 7 March 2023, if he will provide a further breakdown within of both allocations and outturns of each sub programme within each programme heading, i.e. within Programme A Housing include all sub programmes from Local Authority Housing to Other Services, for each of the years 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022. [16724/23]

2023-04-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the additional funding that has been made available to local authorities to ensure that their vacant homes officers are full-time; the amount of additional funding that was made available; the local authorities that have availed of the funding; and to provide a list of local authorities that have full-time vacant home officers. [17164/23]

2023-04-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the National Housing Strategy for Disabled People 2022 – 2027 Implementation Plan will be published; the reason for delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17571/23]

2023-04-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a copy of the most recent unit cost ceilings and averages for social housing new builds and acquisitions by local authorities. [17729/23]

2023-03-23

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on the 14 October 2022 statement by An Bord Pleanála that it was not aware that the Climate Action Plan had been adopted; and his further views on whether other State bodies under his aegis are aware of their obligations under Section 15 of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015 as amended by the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2021. [14578/23]

2023-03-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will confirm what is meant by the phrase ‘delegated sanction’ in Circular 08/2023 with respect to tenant-in-situ acquisitions by local authorities. [14278/23]

2023-03-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 298 of 7 March 2023, if there is a timeframe for his consideration of the report; and when recommendations will be made. [12959/23]

2023-03-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if a peer review (details supplied) on rhododendron management has been completed; and when he will release the review to the public. [13115/23]

2023-03-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average cost to the Exchequer in 2022 per unit of accommodation for housing schemes (details supplied), in tabular form. [13189/23]

2023-03-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of applications for the Croí Cónaithe towns grant; the number approved and the number drawn down with totals for each question; the breakdown by local authority area and the average grant amount approved and drawn down in each local authority area. [13783/23]

2023-03-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide in tabular form information on tenant-in-situ applications by local authorities including applications, rejected applications, applications at valuation stage applications with legal departments of councils, applications where offers have been made and sales closed; and to provide totals for all questions. [13784/23]

2023-03-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide in tabular form the total number of homes delivered under each the following affordable homes schemes in 2022 -CREL, AHF, LDA- with a breakdown by local authority area, housing scheme name and average price. [13785/23]

2023-03-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will explain the ongoing delay in closing the purchase of affordable homes in Kilcarberry, Dunemer and Cork; and if he will confirm when these purchases will be closed and the affordable purchasers in a position to move into their homes. [13786/23]

2023-03-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the emergency measures he intends to introduce to increase and accelerate the supply of social and affordable housing in order to reduce rising levels of homelessness. [12086/23]

2023-03-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update on the promised building defects redress scheme and funding for interim measures and emergency works pending the opening of the full redress scheme. [12087/23]

2023-03-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update on the review of Part B of the building regulations. [12136/23]

2023-03-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update on the reform of Technical Guidance Document B of the Building Regulations. [11818/23]

2023-03-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update on the implementation of recommendations of the 2019 report by the Expert Group on Traveller Accommodation. [11816/23]

2023-03-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update on the Mulcahy report into allegations of planning malpractice in County Donegal; and the actions he intends to take on foot of the reports findings. [11817/23]

2023-03-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update on the enhanced defective concrete block redress scheme. [11815/23]

2023-03-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage with respect to the European Commission's approval of the Croí Cónaithe cities scheme, the dates and summaries of the notifications between his Department and the Directorate-General for Competition in relation to this scheme; how the scheme will be implemented; the timeframes; the reason the scheme was located within the Housing Agency rather than the local authorities, given their experience in dealing with turnkey developments to date. [11073/23]

2023-03-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 295 of 21 February 2023, if he will provide the information that was requested for both the allocation and outturn for each individual programme heading under each Vote for his Department for 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022. [11120/23]

2023-03-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if there is any flexibility in relation to grant awards, particularly adaptation grants, given the increase in construction inflation; and, if not, if consideration will be given to providing flexibility. [11161/23]

2023-03-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage regarding the Traveller Accommodation Expert Review, if his Department intends to act on a recommendation (details supplied) provided in the report. [11316/23]

2023-03-02

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he has any plans to extend the planning permission requirement for short-term letting to areas outside rent pressure zones; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10778/23]

2023-03-01

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the output target for 2023, and subsequent years respectively, in terms of the number of social housing units to be delivered associated with subhead A.33 Social Housing PPP programme, which has been allocated €30 million in the REV23. [10433/23]

2023-03-01

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage of the €1.9 billion capital provision for housing for 2023 that is not voted Exchequer funding, how much is to come from each of LDA investment and HFA lending, respectively. [10434/23]

2023-03-01

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of affordable purchase and cost-rental homes, respectively, that will be delivered through LDA investment in 2023; and the estimated amount of expenditure it has allocated to deliver same. [10435/23]

2023-03-01

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount of voted current funding that has been allocated for 2023, and estimated for subsequent years respectively, for payment and availability arrangements associated with the output targets of subhead A.11. [10450/23]

2023-02-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if consideration has been given to extending the HAP scheme to the sponsor prior to the arrival of the family in relation to cases of family reunification; if so, if there is an outcome regarding the consideration; and, if not, if this is something his Department will consider. [9499/23]

2023-02-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average cost of new build SHIP construction social housing units by local authority for 2020, 2021 and 2022. [9753/23]

2023-02-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason his Department chose not to follow the NPWS recommendation (details supplied) to prosecute the Office of Public Works under Regulations 51(2)(b) and 51 (2)(d) and 65 of the Birds and Habitats Regulation 2011 in his November 2020 Case Report for the Wilful disturbance to bats, and their breed and resting places, at Emo Court, County Laois; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9780/23]

2023-02-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of local authority social housing capital funding applications funded through the SHIP programme in 2021 and 2022, that have been approved within the 59-week timeframe. [9824/23]

2023-02-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of approved housing body capital funding applications funded through the capital assistance scheme that have been approved within the 75-week target since 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9825/23]

2023-02-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the current status of the €70 million Housing Agency revolving fund; what has been agreed as terms of reference in terms of the review of this revolving fund; and the timeline for the review to be completed. [9826/23]

2023-02-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the current status of the review of CALF funding scheme for approved housing bodies, as promised in Housing for All, to be concluded by the 3rd quarter 2022; if he is aware of any impact of this delay on the progress of existing CALF applications; the engagement there has been with officials in the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform on this; and when the changes to the scheme are likely take effect. [9827/23]

2023-02-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the building control section of his Department was consulted on the exempted development planning regulations related to the provision of temporary accommodation for people seeking international protection and people in receipt of temporary protection orders. [8125/23]

2023-02-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an itemised breakdown of his Department’s voted capital and current expenditure for 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023; and if he will itemise the actual expenditure for each of these programmes for 2020, 2021 and 2022, in tabular form. [8276/23]

2023-02-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total capital expenditure on the following housing programmes for 2022: all Departmental capital funding for programmes for local authorities and approved housing bodies to deliver social and affordable homes, per delivery stream and with totals; the total volume of AHB borrowing for the delivery of social and affordable homes; and the total capital expenditure by the LDA on the delivery of social and affordable homes. [8277/23]

2023-02-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on the claim by an organisation (details supplied) that the 2022 CSO new home completion data is incorrect and that rather than 2,9851 completions being recorded in 2022, the figure was just 23,751; and if he will provide the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage with a detailed report on this issue, setting out his Department's analysis of the issue, either confirming the accuracy of the CSO data or outlining the action that will be taken to correct the CSO data if the analysis by the organisation is correct. [8297/23]

2023-02-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of affordable cost rental homes delivered by AHBs and the LDA in 2022; the breakdown by local authority area; the number of units in each scheme; and the average rent being charged. [8758/23]

2023-02-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of affordable purchase homes delivered via the affordable housing fund in 2022; the breakdown by local authority area; the number of homes per scheme; and the average cost of the home with and without the AHF discount. [8759/23]

2023-02-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his Department is monitoring the impact of the introduction of the fresh start principle in the housing schemes run by his Department, and in particular whether his Department is tracking applications, approvals or drawdowns of monies from these schemes for those whose applications include the fresh start principal. [8761/23]

2023-02-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the use of the recently introduced Part 8 planning derogation is a matter for local authority managers to decide on its application or whether more specific guidance is to be issued to local authorities by his Department; and to state what this guidance will be. [7601/23]

2023-02-15

VOTE

Emergency Housing Measures · 2 divisions

✗ voted against the motion the motion motion passed · 75–57
✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion passed · 75–57

2023-02-14

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the funding applications that are currently being considered by his Department for the Traveller AHB Cena; the funding that has been provided by Cena in 2022; the funding that will be provided in 2023; and if his Department is encouraging local authorities and approved housing bodies to engage with and enter service level agreements with Cena to assist in the development of much needed Traveller specific accommodation. [6862/23]

2023-02-14

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total capital expenditure on housing programmes (details supplied) for 2022; the total volume of AHB borrowing for the delivery of social and affordable homes; and the total capital expenditure by the LDA on the delivery of social and affordable homes. [6866/23]

2023-02-14

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total funding, if any, provided by his Department for a number of programmes (details supplied); and if he will provide, in tabular form, a breakdown of the funding drawn down for each programme by postcode; for the years 2020, 2021 and 2022, in tabular form. [7396/23]

2023-01-31

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update on the Cost of Construction Study, including its terms of reference, its scope, the person who is conducting the study and when it will be published. [3934/23]

2023-01-31

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the names of the current board members of An Bord Pleanála; and when he expects the full board to be in place. [3971/23]

2023-01-31

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to confirm whether a single point of approval for mixed tenure social and affordable housing schemes has been put in place on foot of his Department's review published in January 2022; if so, the name and grade of the person leading this single point of approval; and the number of projects currently accessing this single point of approval, with a breakdown by local authority area and number of units in each project. [4320/23]

2023-01-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of cost-rental homes delivered through the cost-rental equity loan in 2022; the number of cost-rental homes delivered by the Land Development Agency in 2022; and the number of affordable purchase homes delivered through the Affordable Housing Fund in 2022. [3842/23]

2023-01-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update on the regulations for and the opening of the enhanced defective concrete block redress scheme. [3597/23]

2023-01-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update on the CALF and CREL reviews; and the number of CALF and CREL homes delivered in 2022. [3596/23]

2023-01-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will outline the principal changes to apartment design standards set out in the Guidelines for Planning Authorities published in December 2022; and if this set of guidelines fully supersedes the two previous sets of guidelines published in 2018 and 2020. [3593/23]

2023-01-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update on the implementation of the 32 recommendations from the Expert Group Report on Traveller accommodation. [3595/23]

2023-01-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update on the delivery of affordable homes in the Poolbeg SDZ, St. Michael's Estate, O‘Devaney Gardens and Oscar Traynor Road. [3594/23]

2023-01-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update on the research by or on behalf of his Department into premature deaths of persons experiencing homelessness. [3810/23]

2023-01-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average cost of Part V social housing units by local authority for 2020, 2021 and 2022. [3832/23]

2023-01-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average annual cost of Part V leasing social housing units by local authority for 2020, 2021 and 2022. [3833/23]

2023-01-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average cost of turnkey social housing units by local authority for 2020, 2021 and 2022. [3834/23]

2023-01-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update on unsold affordable homes; the number of homes currently occupied by social housing tenants; and if tenants can purchase the homes as per their contracts. [3587/23]

2023-01-24

PQ

Asked Finance

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Finance the engagement he has had with NAMA and or the Minister for Housing regarding NAMA's commercial interest in the land at the Poolbeg SDZ, and whether this interest could be transferred to Dublin City Council to ensure the delivery of genuinely affordable homes at that location as per the SDZ agreement. [3037/23]

2023-01-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will confirm that the Public Appointments Service was used in the appointment of members to the interim Land Development Agency board in 2019 and the full LDA board in 2021; and, if not, if he will outline the process that was used to generate the list of names from which Ministers selected the members of the interim and full board of the LDA. [3001/23]

2023-01-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of meetings he had with Dublin City Council and with organisations (details supplied) in 2022 regarding the delivery of affordable housing on the Poolbeg SDZ site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3036/23]

2023-01-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update on the publication of the rural planning guidelines; and the reason for the ongoing delay in the publication of same. [3039/23]

2023-01-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update on the publication of the housing density guidelines currently being developed by his Department. [3040/23]

2023-01-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will confirm that houses as well as apartments and duplexes will be included in the forthcoming building defects redress scheme where the owners of such houses can demonstrate there are structural building defects similar to those in apartments and duplexes. [3043/23]

2023-01-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the implementation plan for the National Housing Strategy for Disabled People will be published. [3236/23]

2023-01-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if counties Clare and Limerick have been formally accepted into the defective concrete block remediation scheme; and the other counties that have formally applied to his Department to be included in the scheme. [3308/23]

2023-01-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the European Commission has confirmed that the Croí Cónaithe cities scheme is in line with EU state aid rules; and, if not, if he will provide an update on his Department's engagement with the Commission. [2539/23]

2023-01-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of applications revised, the number of applications approved and the number of contracts signed under the Croí Cónaithe cities scheme; and the number of units in each application and in each category, broken down by local authority area. [2540/23]

2023-01-18

PQ

Asked Taoiseach

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Taoiseach if he will provide a list of all persons and groups invited to the 11 January housing summit; if he will list all of those who attended; and if he will publish the minutes or any record of the meeting, in particular the outcome of the workshops and open discussion session. [1871/23]

2023-01-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the stage at which a homeowner who has been awarded a grant under the existing and the enhanced defective block remediation scheme can draw down payment for construction works. [63741/22]

2023-01-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of new-build social homes delivered to date in 2022, broken down by delivery stream (details supplied). [63742/22]

2023-01-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of social housing leases delivered to date in 2022, with a breakdown by leasing scheme. [63743/22]

2023-01-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update on the marine protected areas legislation, including a date when he expects to publish the Bill. [63744/22]

2023-01-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update on the legislation for a directly elected mayor in Limerick. [63745/22]

2023-01-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he intends to release the Mulcahy report into allegations of planning malpractice in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63746/22]

2023-01-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of social homes that have been delivered through the single-stage approval process, broken down by year and local authority, for each year since 2019; and the number of new social homes that are currently in the pipeline availing of the single-stage approval process, with a breakdown by local authority, in tabular form. [63747/22]

2023-01-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of social homes that were delivered through the mortgage-to-rent, buy-and-renew and repair-and-lease schemes in 2022, in tabular form. [63748/22]

2023-01-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of social and affordable homes delivered by the LDA in 2022, by location and average price. [63749/22]

2023-01-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of Croí Cónaithe grants issued in 2022, by county. [63750/22]

2023-01-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of contracts that have been signed with developers under the Croí Cónaithe cities scheme; and the total number of units to be provided through these contracts. [63751/22]

2023-01-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of new housing first tenancies created in 2022, by local authority area. [63752/22]

2023-01-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide details of the public sector benchmarking exercise used in the first bundle of the social housing public private partnerships. [63754/22]

2023-01-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update on bundle 2 and bundle 3 of the social housing PPP programme. [63755/22]

2023-01-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average cost of one-, two-, three-, and four-bedroom social houses and one-, two-, and three-bedroom social apartments that were completed in 2022; and the average cost for the same set of units for tender contracts signed in 2022, in tabular form. [63756/22]

2023-01-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of affordable homes delivered through the Affordable Housing Fund in 2022 that went sale closed in 2022. [63995/22]

2023-01-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide a breakdown of the 2,706 new-build social homes delivered by quarter 3 of 2022, by delivery scheme, including SHIP construction, CHIP turnkey, CALF construction, CALF turnkey, CAS construction, CAS turnkey and Part V, PPP. [63996/22]

2023-01-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason that wording (details supplied) was removed from the final Donegal quarry inspection report from the National Building Control Office published by his Department in December 2022; and the person or body that took the decision to remove this sentence from the report. [63997/22]

2023-01-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his attention has been drawn to contract restrictions on apartment owners selling their apartments to local authorities or approved housing bodies for social housing; if so, if he will discuss the matter with the Minister for Justice to examine if this restriction can be overcome by way of legislation or regulation in order to allow such properties be acquired for social or affordable housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1008/23]

2023-01-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he intends to revise the headline targets underpinning his housing plan; if so, the breakdown of those targets by tenure type; and when he intends to publish the revised targets. [1009/23]

2023-01-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the inputs that are used by his Department when using the housing need and demand assessment to determine the annual social and affordable housing targets as set out in the housing plan. [1010/23]

2023-01-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update on the new rural planning guidelines. [1072/23]

2023-01-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the policy relating to assessment of full and half-rate carer's allowance payments in relation to the local authority home loan; if the payments are assessed as income on all applications; if there is any flexibility in the case that the payment puts an applicant marginally over the income limit; if not, if flexibility will be granted given that most banks refuse to consider carer's allowance payments as income, and the last-attempt nature of the local authority home loan application. [1582/23]

2023-01-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the Croí Cónaithe town grant takes the form of a Government equity stake in the property; the nature and detail of the clawback if the property is subsequently sold or transferred to a family member; if the grant can be drawn; and if there are issues with banks that are delaying draw down of grants that have been approved to date.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1879/23]

2023-01-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is considering raising the house price thresholds for the local authority mortgages in line with average house prices. [2126/23]

2023-01-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of applications for Croí Cónaithe towns grants to date, broken down by local authority area and by grant type, such as vacant home, derelict home; the number of croí cónaithe towns grants approved, broken down by local authority area and by grant type; the total number of croí cónaithe towns grants drawn down, broken down by local authority area and grant type; and if he will provide a summary of the total value of applications, approvals, and draw-downs to date in tabular form. [2127/23]

2023-01-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of mortgage-to-rent applications, approvals and completions in 2022, broken down by local authority area; the number of repair-and-lease applications, broken down by local authority area, approvals and completions in 2022; and the number of buy-and-renew applications, approvals and completions in 2022, broken down by local authority area, in tabular form. [2131/23]

2022-12-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will set out a list of all Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bills introduced and passed by the Houses of the Oireachtas since 2016; and if he will provide a short summary of each Act in tabular form. [62257/22]

2022-12-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his Department intends to review and change current regulations to include a specific percentage of wheelchair liveable housing. [62291/22]

2022-12-13

VOTE

Confidence in Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage

✗ voted against the motion motion passed · 86–63

2022-12-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the legal basis for his appointment of an interim chair to An Bord Pleanála. [61144/22]

2022-12-06

PQ

Asked Finance

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Finance if the National Asset Residential Property Services has been transferred to the LDA; if so, when this transfer happened; the number of residential units held by NARPS on transfer; the value of these properties; and the number of these properties currently in social housing leasing arrangements. [60939/22]

2022-12-06

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the additional gross and net annual cost to the state of every €1,000 increase to the social housing eligibility income thresholds up to €10,000 in tabular form. [60520/22]

2022-12-06

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated additional annual expenditure that would be required from the Exchequer on the housing assistance payment by increases to the income eligibility thresholds for social housing in €1,000 increments from €1,000 to €10,000 respectively; and the number of additional households that it is estimated would become eligible for HAP as a consequence of the same increases in tabular form. [60521/22]

2022-12-06

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average HAP payment per recipient funded by the Exchequer; and the average cost to the State per recipient net of differential rents. [60522/22]

2022-12-06

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the gross and net average cost to the State per HAP recipient. [60523/22]

2022-12-06

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average differential rent paid in the State. [60524/22]

2022-12-06

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of additional persons that became eligible for HAP in counties Carlow, Clare, Laois, Westmeath and Galway as a result of the decision in September 2022 to increase the social housing eligibility income thresholds by €5,000; and the percentage increase to the number of HAP recipients prior to the move that this equates to in tabular form. [60525/22]

2022-12-06

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated additional annual gross and net cost to the State of the decision in September 2022 to increase the social housing eligibility income thresholds by €5,000 in counties Carlow, Clare, Laois, Westmeath and Galway. [60529/22]

2022-12-06

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated number of additional households that would become eligible for social housing supports if the band 3 threshold was further revised from €30,000 to €35,000; and the estimated cost of supports for them. [60722/22]

2022-12-06

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated additional gross and net cost of social housing supports for the 16,000 additional households that will become eligible as a result of the decision announced on 29 November 2022 to increase the baseline thresholds; the breakdown of the cost estimate; and the estimated projected number of these 16,000 households that will be eligible for HAP due to shortage of social housing. [60723/22]

2022-12-06

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the review of social housing income eligibility or his Department otherwise considered changes to the treatment of family income supplement or the income of adult children who are unable to leave the family home due to the housing crisis; if so, the changes considered; the estimated numbers impacted by; and the estimated cost of the changes. [60724/22]

2022-12-01

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update on the establishment of a redress scheme for homeowners and tenants living in buildings with fire safety and other building defects. [60043/22]

2022-12-01

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the emergency measures he is introducing during the winter ban on evictions to avoid a significant increase in homelessness when the ban ends on 1 April 2023. [60044/22]

2022-12-01

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update on the CALF review. [59798/22]

2022-12-01

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update on his efforts to assist the delivery of affordable homes in the Poolbeg SDZ. [59800/22]

2022-12-01

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update on the CREL review. [59799/22]

2022-12-01

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his Department is tracking social and affordable commencements; and if there has been any drop-off in such commencements to date in 2022. [59801/22]

2022-12-01

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update on the survey conducted by an organisation (details supplied) of quarries in County Donegal. [59802/22]

2022-11-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update on the proposed interim enforcement measures for short-term lettings; if he will provide an update on the proposed licensing system for short-term lettings; and the role, if any, for the RTB in the proposed Bord Fáilte licence. [58788/22]

2022-11-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the individual capital allocation to each of the housing programmes funded by his Department, including SHIP, CALF, CAS and so on; and the total spend for each of these programmes for each year from 2020 to date in 2022, in tabular form. [58789/22]

2022-11-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update on his Department’s engagement with stakeholders involved in attempts to deliver cost rental homes in a location (details supplied). [58790/22]

2022-11-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will set out the LDA’s affordable housing targets for 2022, including cost-rental and affordable purchase and their delivery to date. [58791/22]

2022-11-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he intends to publish the Q3 social housing output report. [58792/22]

2022-11-23

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of vacant buildings identified and recommended to the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for the provision of emergency accommodation for Ukrainian refugees and asylum seekers; the breakdown of the number of buildings per county; and the potential bed capacity in each local authority. [58386/22]

2022-11-23

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if, under the Electoral Reform Act 2022, it is the intention of Government and local authorities to remove persons from the electoral register in the absence of them registering under the new electoral registration system. [58387/22]

2022-11-23

VOTE

Declaration of a Housing Emergency · 2 divisions

✗ voted against the motion the motion motion passed · 72–61
✗ voted against Amendment again put: motion passed · 72–63

2022-11-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the supports that are available for local authority frontline staff in the homeless sections such as training in trauma-informed care and counselling to assist them in dealing with the growing levels of homeless presentations. [57291/22]

2022-11-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated number of AHF homes, CREL homes, LDA cost rental homes, and any other homes to be delivered via the affordable housing funding not included in the listed categories by local authority for each of the years 2022 to 2026, in tabular form. [57302/22]

2022-11-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if current and future residents in accommodation provided by the International Protection and Accommodation Service are included in the data informing the housing needs demand assessment both for the State-wide targets and the local authority specific targets; and if so, the way in which this data in included. [57331/22]

2022-11-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the criteria which a SHIP and CALF construction and a SHIP and CALF turn-key social homes are considered delivered, in order for such units to be included in the social housing output figures in a given year. [57332/22]

2022-11-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when firefighters employed by Dublin Fire Brigade will receive the pandemic special recognition payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57512/22]

2022-11-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he has plans to amend Section 12 of Residential Tenancies Act 2004 to ensure that tenants are not prohibited from hanging clothes to dry in gardens, balconies or within view of windows. [57555/22]

2022-11-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the legislation for a directly-elected mayor in Limerick; and the date for the publication of the legislation. [57764/22]

2022-11-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if a review of housing Circular 41/2012 is underway; if so, when it will be ready; and if not, if his Department will consider undertaking a review of the circular in order to provide clarification regarding the content. [57946/22]

2022-11-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is considering changes to the eligibility criterion for social housing supports; if it is intended to enshrine legal residence as a criteria for application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57947/22]

2022-11-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of Part 8 stage one approval applications for Traveller-specific housing submitted to his Department by each local authority for each year since 2016, in tabular form. [56633/22]

2022-11-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 337 of 18 October 2022, if he can confirm that his Department has agreed annual targets for new private rental homes and new affordable homes separate to the averages set out in table 2 on page 31 of the Government’s housing plan; and, if not, if he intends to agree such annual targets. [55950/22]

2022-11-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update on the forthcoming legislation arising from the review of the Planning and Development Act 2000; and if he intends to request pre-legislative scrutiny on any general scheme to ensure adequate public and sectoral scrutiny of proposed legislation. [55702/22]

2022-11-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide a list of all vacant properties identified by the local authorities, an organisation (details supplied) and his Department, to the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for conversion into multi-unit emergency accommodation for Ukrainian refugees in tabular form. [54409/22]

2022-11-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the membership of the cross-departmental working group on building defects; its terms of reference; the number of times that it has met to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54497/22]

2022-11-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of homes delivered under various schemes (details supplied) for each of the years 2020 to 2021 and to date in 2022. [54498/22]

2022-11-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of applications for the shared equity local scheme; the number of approvals; if he will provide a breakdown of approvals by loan-to-value at 90%, 85%, 80%, 75%, 70%; if he will provide a breakdown of draw-downs by loan-to-value at 90%, 85%, 80%, 75%, 70%; the average house price for all approved applications; and the average house price for all draw-downs in tabular form. [54606/22]

2022-11-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of stage 1 approvals for social housing projects by local authorities that have been refused in each of the years 2020 and 2021 and to date in 2022; the number of such refusals in each local authority; and if he will provide a summary of the grounds on which these stage 1 approvals were refused. [54679/22]

2022-11-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 86 of 26 October 2022, if he will confirm that the Department has requested local authorities to exclude any category of household currently recorded on the PASS system from the date sent to his Department for the monthly homeless report; if so, the category of household, who they are excluded and the number of such households that were on the PASS system on any single date in September 2022. [54735/22]

2022-11-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason that the planning fee for use of land as a burial ground is more than three times higher than the planning fee for the provision of a house. [55282/22]

2022-11-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason that ceiling track hoists are not provided for under the Housing (Adaptation Grants for Older People and People with a Disability) Regulations 2007; if he will provide an update on his engagement with the Department of Health as to a suitable resolution regarding the funding of hoists; and when ceiling track hoists will be made available to persons who require them but cannot currently access them. [55312/22]

2022-11-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he intends to introduce any flexibility on the 12-month income rule for determining social housing support eligibility in cases where persons have lost their jobs but whose previous income still places them over the threshold. [55440/22]

2022-11-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the next electoral boundary review will be established and concluded. [55640/22]

2022-11-08

PQ

Asked Education

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Education if her Department will undertake a review of the assessment for DEIS to take into account demographic changes, particularly changes in areas where housing was traditionally owner-occupied but is increasingly rented with State support. [54420/22]

2022-11-08

PQ

Asked Health

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on funding for ceiling track hoists following the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage advising that this adaptation should not be included in housing adaptation grants in late 2020; and when a resolution to this funding issue can be expected to ensure that persons can access a service required to meet their health, safety and personal needs. [55313/22]

2022-10-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if there has been further correspondence or reasoned opinion issued by the European Commission on the Electoral Reform Act 2022; if so, the date that the correspondence was received; and the Commission's views expressed on the matters addressed in the correspondence. [53676/22]

2022-10-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his Department's monthly homeless report includes all households in family-hub accommodation and all households in own-door transitional accommodation as recorded in the PASS system; and if not, the breakdown of the total number of households, with a further breakdown by household size, in family-hub accommodation and own-door transitional accommodation for the most recent date that were not included in the relevant monthly homeless report. [53677/22]

2022-10-26

VOTE

Social and Affordable Housing Supply · 2 divisions

✗ voted against the motion the motion motion passed · 79–55
✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion passed · 80–54

2022-10-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of affordable homes that have been delivered to date via the serviced sites fund, affordable housing fund, cost-rental equity loan, project tosaigh, IDA new builds and Croí Cónaithe cities, broken down by location and average cost of rent or buy in tabular form. [52805/22]

2022-10-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of authorised officers under Article 11 of the European Union (Construction Products) Regulations 2013 (S.I. No. 225 of 2013) who have been appointed since 2013; and the number who are currently employed in each Markey surveillance expressed as full-time equivalents in tabular form. [52814/22]

2022-10-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of authorised officers under section 11 of the Building Control Act 1990 who are currently employed, by local authority, confirming the number expressed as full-time equivalents in tabular form. [52815/22]

2022-10-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an annual breakdown of the private rented and private ownership homes target for each year with respect to the housing targets set out in page 32 of Housing for All. [51452/22]

2022-10-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the current upper limits per unit for the affordable housing fund and the cost-rental equity loan. [51510/22]

2022-10-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update on his Department's engagement with the European Commission on the implications of State aid rules for financing and development by the Land Development Agency. [51572/22]

2022-10-12

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he intends to introduce a green certificate for homes where there is evidence of Pyrite but not yet of physical damage, and where the home is not currently eligible for redress under the Pyrite Resolution Board. [50465/22]

2022-10-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if there is a policy regarding the appropriate use of domestic flights in his Department and bodies under the aegis of the Department. [50120/22]

2022-10-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the current incremental tenant purchase scheme permits council tenants in homes classed as a maisonette to avail of purchase; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49527/22]

2022-10-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No 288 of 4 October 2020, if he will provide a breakdown of the 2,800 homes to be delivered for affordable purchase and cost rental, through both LDA investment and with funding of €90 million via the affordable housing fund stating the number of cost rental and affordable purchases to be delivered by the LDA and the number of cost rental and affordable purchases to be delivered by local authorities. [50137/22]

2022-10-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of external consultants that have been hired by his Department in each of the years since 2016 to date in tabular form; the purpose of the consultant contracted; and the cost per contract. [50163/22]

2022-10-06

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the breakdown of the new build social housing delivered in Q1 and Q2 of 2022 by delivery stream including the Social Housing Investment Programme construction, the Social Housing Investment Programme turnkey, Capital Advance Leasing Facility construction, Capital Advance Leasing Facility turnkey, capital assistance scheme construction, capital assistance scheme turnkey and Part V in tabular form. [49306/22]

2022-10-06

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the breakdown of the social housing delivered in Q1 and Q2, 2022 funded through the Social Housing Current Expenditure Programme; the breakdown by delivery stream including long-term leasing, short-term leasing, Part V leasing, mortgage to rent, repair and lease and public private partnership; and the average lease cost power year for each delivery stream in tabular form. [49307/22]

2022-10-06

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the income of a person is not reassessed to determine social housing eligibility in cases in which a social housing support tenant in transferring from one HAP tenancy to another HAP tenancy or from a HAP tenancy to a local authority or approved housing body tenancy. [49308/22]

2022-10-06

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of social housing acquisitions in Q1 and Q2, 2022 that had tenants in situ; and the number that were vacant. [49309/22]

2022-10-06

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total allocation for local authority home loan in each of the years from 2016 to 2022 and the total drawdown in each year including to date in 2022, in tabular form. [49338/22]

2022-10-06

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the youth homeless strategy. [49339/22]

2022-10-06

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will review the local authority home loan and in particular the income eligibility limits, the means test criteria, the maximum loan amounts and the administrative process for accessing and deciding on the loans. [49340/22]

2022-10-04

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of domestic flights for work purposes taken by him, Ministers of State in his Department and department staff for each of the years 2019 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form. [47917/22]

2022-10-04

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his Department has conducted any specific analysis of the impact of the tax and social welfare changes on households currently on social housing waiting lists who may as a result of their changed income circumstances, lose their entitlement to social housing supports. [48291/22]

2022-10-04

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total expected capital underspend in his Department budget for 2022; the line items where this under spend is expected to occur; the total capital carryover into Budget 2023; and the areas that this specific money has been allocated to in 2023. [48292/22]

2022-10-04

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide a breakdown of the 5,550 affordable homes referred to in page 122 of the Budget 2023 Budget Book by type including Affordable Housing Fund, Cost Rental Equity Loan, LDA, Shared Equity Loan and any other delivery stream. [48293/22]

2022-10-04

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide a breakdown of the 2,530 new social homes to be delivered through various leasing schemes referred to in page 122 of the 2023 Budget Book by leasing scheme long-term leasing, Part V leasing, repair and lease, mortgage to rent, and any other; and the way that this leasing target related to the 6,500 social homes to be delivered via the Social Housing Current Expenditure Programme as detailed in page 124 of the Budget 2023 Budget Book. [48294/22]

2022-10-04

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of homes that he expects to be purchased in 2022 and 2023 using the first home shared equity scheme. [48295/22]

2022-10-04

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of affordable homes that he expects the Land Development Agency to deliver in 2022 and 2023; and if he will provide a breakdown by affordable cost rental and affordable purchase. [48298/22]

2022-10-04

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of affordable purchase homes that he expects will be delivered with the €90 million allocation to the Affordable Housing Fund in 2023. [48299/22]

2022-10-04

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total expenditure from the €20 million allocation for pyrite remediation and the €60 million for defective block in Mayo and Galway to date in 2022; the estimated underspend from these two schemes at the end of 2022; and the amount of that underspend is included in the capital carryover into 2023’s vote. [48300/22]

2022-10-04

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of social housing retrofits delivered in 2022 with the €85 million allocation; the amount of this funding that he expects to go unspent in 2022; and the amount of the unspent funding that will be in the capital carryover for 2023. [48301/22]

2022-10-04

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide a breakdown of the €30 million allocation for croí cónaithe funding for 2023, by the cities and towns fund. [48302/22]

2022-10-04

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason that the €544 million HAP allocation in Budget 2023 will fund an additional 8,800 HAP tenancies when the allocation represents a €40 million reduction in the 2022 allocation, which would suggest a net decline in HAP tenancies supported by the Government in 2023. [48303/22]

2022-10-04

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the areas that he expects the €20 million in additional current expenditure for homeless services will be spent on. [48304/22]

2022-10-04

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update on the CALF review currently underway within his Department. [48493/22]

2022-10-04

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the changes that he recently made to the cost rental equity loan. [48494/22]

2022-10-04

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update on the interim short-term letting regulations, the legislation for which was passed in July 2022. [48495/22]

2022-10-04

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 171 of 27 September 2022, if it is correct that only one prosecution was initiated against a State body by the National Parks and Wildlife Services in the past five years; the number of prosecutions recommended by the National Parks and Wildlife Services against State bodies that were subsequently not initiated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48545/22]

2022-09-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans for a redress scheme for homeowners impacted by Celtic tiger-era fire safety, water ingress and other structural defects. [47294/22]

2022-09-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason that he has not raised all of the social housing eligibility income thresholds; and if he plans to do so. [47295/22]

2022-09-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on the recent increase in homeless presentations and the numbers in emergency accommodation. [47284/22]

2022-09-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update on the mid-term review of the Traveller accommodation programmes and wider implementation of the recommendations of the expert group report on Traveller accommodation. [47282/22]

2022-09-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update on the delivery of affordable homes in the Poolbeg strategic development zone, SDZ. [47296/22]

2022-09-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will urgently review the 12-month income assessment rule given that it is resulting in applicants being refused social housing support who are clearly in need of such support. [47281/22]

2022-09-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update on the review of IS 464 and the drafting of the regulations to underpin the new defective block redress scheme. [47283/22]

2022-09-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide a breakdown of the total drawdown from the defective block remediation fund, with a further breakdown by drawdown in counties Mayo and Donegal. [47351/22]

2022-09-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of cost-rental homes completed to date in 2022, broken down by location, number of units per scheme and average monthly rent per scheme, in tabular form. [47373/22]

2022-09-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total amount of general Government capital expenditure on social and affordable housing by local authorities, approved housing bodies and the Land Development Agency, LDA, in each of the years 2016 to 2021 and to date in 2022, by funding via voted Government capital expenditure, approved housing body borrowing for capital developments and LDA capital expenditure in each of those years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46611/22]

2022-09-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of prosecutions that have been taken by the National Parks and Wildlife Service against other State bodies; and if he will provide a breakdown of the number of successful prosecutions, in tabular form. [46911/22]

2022-09-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he has signed the Ministerial Order to enact the announced changes to the incremental tenant purchase scheme; and if not, when he intends to do so. [47199/22]

2022-09-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of applications for the defective block grant scheme in counties Donegal and Mayo; the number of applications pending; the average length of applications pending in each county; the number of applications approved; the average grant amount approved; the number of grants drawn down to date; and the average amount drawn down, by county, in tabular form. [45406/22]

2022-09-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the review of the social housing eligibility thresholds. [45407/22]

2022-09-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the Department's financial support for the Traveller led approved housing body Cena including the possibility of funding provided by way of a service level agreement via the housing agency to assist in the development of culturally appropriate Traveller specific accommodation. [45881/22]

2022-09-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if circulars relating to the Land Development Agency and land acquisition state agencies and other public bodies have been circulated; if so, when; to whom; and if a copy will be published. [45971/22]

2022-09-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on the mid-term review of the Traveller Accommodation Programmes. [45972/22]

2022-09-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of affordable homes delivered to date in 2022 via the Affordable Housing Fund, the Cost Rental Equity Loan and Project Tosaigh in tabular form. [45973/22]

2022-09-14

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount of capital funding that is owed to each local authority; the quantity of funding owed for 6 months or less, more than 6 months and less than 12 months, more than 12 months, less than 18 months, more than 18 months and less than 24 months and more than 24 months in tabular form. [44471/22]

2022-09-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will confirm whether his Department consulted the European Commission on all amendments to the Electoral Reform Bill 2022, including the last amendments introduced in Seanad Éireann in July 2022, including the new Part V of the Bill on disinformation. [41935/22]

2022-09-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the details of all section 28 Ministerial guidelines issued in the past decade with a brief summary of the guidelines in tabular form. [42584/22]

2022-09-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide a breakdown of his affordable housing targets as set out in figure 3 on page 32 of Housing For All for each year by scheme (details supplied). [43632/22]

2022-09-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide the social housing output figures for Q2 2022 with a full breakdown by delivery stream including SHIP, CALF and CAS turnkey and construction streams. [43633/22]

2022-09-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide the number of shared-equity loan applications to date, the value of those applications, the number of approvals, the value of those approvals and the number of drawdowns; and the value of those drawdowns to date in tabular form. [43635/22]

2022-09-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update on the regulations for the defective block remediation scheme including a list of all regulations currently being drafted; and the estimated date for the completion of those regulations. [43636/22]

2022-09-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he intends to publish the Mulcahy Report into certain planning matters in County Donegal; and the actions that he intends to take on foot of the contents of the report. [43637/22]

2022-09-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on the report of the working group on defective buildings; the steps that he intends to take to provide redress for homeowners affected by the defects dealt with in this report. [43638/22]

2022-07-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his Department has been notified by local authorities of potential defective blocks identified in advance of contracts being signed on social housing construction or turnkey projects; if so, the local authorities involved; the number of occasions on which such possible defective blocks were identified; and the action that was taken by his Department with respect to the potential defective blocks such as notification of the National Building Control and Market Surveillance Office or related inspection and enforcement action. [39749/22]

2022-07-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his Department received a report from Donegal County Council on foot of its inspection of 187 quarries in the County; if he will provide a summary of the information and recommendation contained in the report; and the action that his Department is taking in respect of same. [39750/22]

2022-07-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is considering requesting National Standards Authority of Ireland to conduct reviews of the masonry block industry standard and the aggregate industry standard. [39751/22]

2022-07-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of social housing acquisition requests received to date from each local authority in tabular form, broken down by acquisition requests with a social housing support tenant in situ and acquisition requests whereby the property is vacant. [40173/22]

2022-07-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will commission specific guidelines for local authorities setting out the current thinking on the issue of defective blocks as an interim measure while the National Standards Authority of Ireland is undertaking its review of IS 464 (details supplied). [40174/22]

2022-07-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of affordable housing fund affordable houses delivered in each local authority to date in 2022; the purchase price of each size of home in each development; the full cost of each size home when the local authority equity stake is taken into account; and the household income eligibility for each size house in each scheme in tabular form. [40175/22]

2022-07-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he has had any engagement with the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage and-or the National Asset Management Agency on NAMA’s interest in a development (details supplied) with respect to the way that NAMA’s interest could be leveraged to secure genuinely affordable homes as required under the terms of the development; and if not, if he will initiate such engagements to ensure that there is no delay to the delivery of the affordable homes at this location. [40176/22]

2022-07-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his engagement with the National Asset Management Agency and the Minister for Finance on the issue of affordable home delivery at a site (details supplied). [40177/22]

2022-07-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he has received the report from the Working Group on Building Defects; if so, when he intends to publish it; and if he has not yet received it, when he expects to receive same [40234/22]

2022-07-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will report on the funding allocated to the National Housing Strategy for Disabled People 2022-2027 in budget 2022. [40338/22]

2022-07-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the water abstraction legislation; when it will be introduced in the Houses of the Oireachtas; and when he expects it to be operational [41225/22]

2022-07-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the procedure in place for group water schemes to apply to become part of the public water network; the amount of funding that has been made available to this scheme in each of the past five years; the number of schemes that have been brought into the public system in each of the past five years; and the total number of homes involved in each scheme for each year by local authority. [41226/22]

2022-07-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the Government's position with respect to the detailed opinion from the European Commission on the Electoral Reform Bill 2022 as set out in notification 2022/0184/IRL; the reason that he failed to inform the Houses of the Oireachtas of this detailed opinion during the passage of the legislation; if any of the last-minute amendments introduced in Seanad Éireann were a response to the Commission's opinion. [41620/22]

2022-07-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if amending legislation to the Electoral Reform Bill 2022 will now be required in response to the European Commission's detailed opinion on the Bill as set out in Notification 2022/0184/IRL. [41621/22]

2022-07-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage understanding of the timeline for the review by National Standards Authority of Ireland of IS 465 in terms of commencement and completion of the review; the public consultation that will be involved in the process; and when he expects his Department to be in a position to consider amendments to the regulations underpinning the defective concrete block remediation scheme on foot of the review. [41622/22]

2022-07-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of European Commission enforcement against the State for breaches of the Urban Wastewater Directive; the number of agglomerations still in breach of the directive; the number of households affected in each agglomerations; and the timeline for bringing the wastewater treatment plans in each of these area into compliance. [41623/22]

2022-07-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the 90 vacant buildings intended for multi-family emergency accommodation for Ukrainian refugees; the timeline for bringing each of these properties into active use as emergency accommodation; and the counties in which these buildings are located [41624/22]

2022-07-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he intends to review the housing need and demand assessment targets set for local authority development plans and the Government's Housing Plan given the new data on population contained in Census 2022; and if so, the timeline for this review and its impacts on development plans the Housing Plan targets [41626/22]

2022-07-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of council mortgage applications, approvals and drawdowns to date in 2022, broken down by local authority and with an average amount for the applications, approvals and drawdowns; and if he will provide the same information for 2021, in tabular form. [41627/22]

2022-07-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the social housing output across all delivery streams in 2022 up to Q2 [41628/22]

2022-07-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of new staff approved for each local authority housing department since the announcement of up to 200 new posts at the end of 2021. [41629/22]

2022-07-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the legislation on the directly elected mayor for Limerick city; and the timeline for its introduction [41630/22]

2022-07-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the local authorities that now have vacant homes officers in place; if they are full-time vacant homes officers; and if not, if this work constitutes part of their overall responsibilities in tabular form. [41631/22]

2022-07-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the review of the social housing income eligibility thresholds. [41632/22]

2022-07-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will set out all legislation currently pending within his Department; the current status of the legislation and the timelines for the introduction of each piece of legislation in tabular form [41633/22]

2022-07-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will set out all the reviews currently underway or concluded but not yet enacted or published within his Department; and the timeline for the completion and publication of each review in tabular form [41634/22]

2022-07-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide a list of all detailed opinions issued by the European Commission to his Department in 2021 and to date in 2022 with respect to legislation or policy initiated by his Department; and if the opinion highlighted conflicts or compliance with relevant European Union law in tabular form. [41635/22]

2022-07-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will set out all of the live infringement actions that are being taken against his Department by the European Commission; the status of these infringement actions; and the cost to date for each action from the time that the action was taken in tabular form [41636/22]

2022-07-14

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the measures that have been put in place to assist local authorities and approved housing bodies to deal with construction sector inflation for contracts signed pre-2022, since 1 January 2022 and for contracts not yet signed but under consideration whether for construction or turnkey under the social housing investment programme, the capital assistance scheme, the capital advance leasing facility and the cost-rental equity loan programme. [38870/22]

2022-07-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his Department has undertaken any analysis into the reasons for overturned planning decisions, specifically decisions in relation to large windfarms. [38178/22]

2022-07-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if any analysis has been undertaken, including investigation of potential environmental damage or if any corrective actions have taken place in relation to windfarm sites at Derrybrein, Keeper Hill or Meenbog. [38179/22]

2022-07-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his Department has a forum through which concerned citizens and non-Governmental organisations can be briefed and raise concerns or make submissions directly to his Department in relation to potential environmental damage as a consequence of planning and development decisions. [38180/22]

2022-07-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will set out his social and affordable housing targets for each year from 2022 to 2026, in tabular form; the breakdown for each year by social housing new build, social housing acquisition, cost rental equity loan, Affordable Housing Fund purchase, Land Development Agency cost rental and Land Development Agency affordable purchase. [38322/22]

2022-07-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if local authorities make a percentage contribution to all social housing delivery streams including SHIP construction, turnkey construction and acquisitions; and if so, the percentage amount for each delivery stream. [38323/22]

2022-07-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of new build social homes and acquisitions delivered in Q1 2022 broken down by local authority in tabular form; and if he will provide a separate table with the information broken down by delivery stream including SHIP construction, SHIP turnkey, SHIP Part V, CAS construction, CAS turnkey, CAS Part V, CALF construction, CALF turnkey, CALF Part V, Regeneration and PPP; if he will clarify whether any of the Part Vs are long terms leases or if such leases are counted separately; and if so, the number of such leases that were delivered in Q1 2022. [38324/22]

2022-07-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of long-term leases delivered in Q1 2022 broken down by local authority area and providing an average annual lease cost per local authority in tabular form. [38325/22]

2022-07-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the action that he and his Department have taken in the past two years to address the issue of quarries producing defective material or block manufacturers producing defective blocks; the engagements he or his Department have had with the National Building Control Office and local building control authorities; the level of inspections, enforcements and prosecutions he is aware of in each local authority area; and the number of block manufacturers and quarries that have been shut down in the past two years arising from such enforcement action and or prosecution. [38326/22]

2022-07-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total Government expenditure allocated for the first home shared equity scheme for 2022; the number of home purchases that the Government expects this total funding to facilitate in 2022; and the funding that has been approved for the scheme from the Government in 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. [38447/22]

2022-07-12

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if it is possible to purchase properties under the incremental tenant purchase scheme with cash lump sums rather than with mortgage finance. [36977/22]

2022-07-06

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the other supports, if any, that are available to assist with rental payments in order for a family to avoid homelessness in the instance that the family is removed from the social housing waiting list as a result of the income threshold being met and that the family is in receipt of only a payment from the Department of Social Protection. [36504/22]

2022-07-05

PQ

Asked Finance

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Finance the current rate of VAT on construction for Government-funded social and affordable housing schemes; and if there are any legal impediments to reducing or zero-rating VAT on such schemes. [35787/22]

2022-07-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the establishment of the maritime area regulatory authority; and when he hopes it will be established. [35424/22]

2022-07-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if local authorities have received any advice or guidance from his Department in recent years on the length of time a person should be living in a local authority area to meet the eligibility conditions for social housing support; the details of this advice; and the basis of the five-year rule in many allocation schemes. [35476/22]

2022-06-30

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of affordable purchase homes that have been delivered to date; the local authority areas in which they have been delivered; the sales price of the properties and the income limit for eligible purchasers for each size and type of home in tabular form. [35135/22]

2022-06-30

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of affordable cost rental homes that have been delivered to date; the local authority areas in which they have been delivered; and the rents being charged by each size and type of home in tabular form. [35136/22]

2022-06-23

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the additional measures he is taking to address the alarming increase in homelessness in recent months. [33472/22]

2022-06-23

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update on the delivery of affordable housing in areas (details supplied). [33473/22]

2022-06-23

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason for the delay in the sale of affordable housing in Cork city and south County Dublin. [33474/22]

2022-06-23

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update on the review of the social housing income thresholds; and if he will indicate whether he intends to raise the thresholds. [33082/22]

2022-06-23

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans with respect to funding and support for the four Limerick regeneration areas post the end of the current projects in 2024. [33085/22]

2022-06-23

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the details the work of his Department with respect to the refurbishment of large vacant buildings to provide emergency accommodation of Ukrainian refugees. [33084/22]

2022-06-23

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans with respect to the Mulcahy Report into planning matters in County Donegal; if he intends to take action on the matter; and if he intends to publish the report. [33083/22]

2022-06-23

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will detail his engagement with the banks on the issue of mortgage provision for households purchasing local authority affordable homes; and if his attention has been drawn to pillar banks refusing mortgages to potential buyers on the grounds that the property is funded via the Affordable Housing Fund. [33086/22]

2022-06-23

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the proposed scheme that will support first-time buyers to repair derelict properties; and if he will provide a timeframe for the opening of the scheme. [33378/22]

2022-06-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the delivery of affordable cost rental at a location (details supplied); the level of affordable housing fund allocated; and the estimated cost of the cost rental homes. [32018/22]

2022-06-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the delivery of affordable homes on the glass bottle factory site in the Poolbeg SDZ; if he will provide a list of meetings held by him in the past six months with stakeholders; the name of the stakeholders; and the details of progress on the delivery of affordable purchase or affordable cost rental homes on the site. [32019/22]

2022-06-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of social housing delivery to date; the number of schemes and units that have been delivered as part of the new build and acquisitions by each local authority and including approved housing body activity to the most recent date for which data is available. [32020/22]

2022-06-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the income limits under the Affordable Housing Fund scheme for homes with a market value of €200,000, €250,000, €280,000, €300,000, €320,000, €350,000, €380,000, €400,000, €420,000 and €440,000, in tabular form. [31138/22]

2022-06-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of new build social housing units delivered in 2021 and if he can provide a reason for the different figures presented in the Q4 social housing pipeline report and subsequent parliamentary questions answered by his Department. [31139/22]

2022-06-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the changes to the incremental tenant purchase scheme announced earlier this year have taken effect; if applicants can now apply under the new rules; if the revisions to the scheme are not yet in place, when they will be in place and the instrument that is required for the new rules to apply such as circular, ministerial order and so on. [31140/22]

2022-06-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update on Project Tosaigh; the procedures in place to ensure that any project availing of the scheme will be additional to supplies already in train and that adequate safeguards will be in place to prevent the Land Development Agency from using the projects funding to bid for and purchase apartment developments already underway and subject to forward purchase agreement from approved housing bodies, local authorities or other entities. [31141/22]

2022-06-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide a breakdown of funding provided by his Department to each local authority to date in 2022 under the Traveller Accommodation Programme and to provide a further breakdown by local authority of the funding that is to be used for new Traveller accommodation, refurbishment of existing accommodation, caravan loans, site improvement and so on. [31144/22]

2022-06-14

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing; Local Government and Heritage the average unit cost for social homes delivered through turnkey developments in the past 12 months. [28972/22]

2022-06-14

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing; Local Government and Heritage the average unit cost for social homes delivered through the acquisitions programme in the past 12 months. [28973/22]

2022-06-14

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing; Local Government and Heritage the average unit cost for affordable homes delivered through the Cost Rental Equity Loan programme in the past 12 months. [28974/22]

2022-06-14

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing; Local Government and Heritage the average unit cost for affordable homes delivered through the Affordable Housing Fund in the past 12 months. [28975/22]

2022-06-14

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average unit cost for Traveller accommodation delivered through the Traveller Accommodation Programme. [28976/22]

2022-06-14

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total expenditure to date on the pyrite remediation scheme and the defective block remediation scheme; and the expenditure expected by the end of 2022. [28977/22]

2022-06-14

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total expenditure to date on social housing flat complex regeneration; and the expenditure expected by the end of 2022. [28978/22]

2022-06-14

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total expenditure to date on local authority housing maintenance; and the expenditure expected by the end of 2022. [28979/22]

2022-06-14

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total expenditure to date on the social housing retrofit programme; and the expenditure expected by the end of 2022 [28980/22]

2022-06-14

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the date on which the new housing assistance payment rate for single persons will take effect; and if the change requires legislation, regulations or a Ministerial order. [30592/22]

2022-05-31

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his Department engaged with the European Commission on whether the Croí Cónaithe Cities scheme was compliant with European Union-state aid rules; and the conditions, if any, that the European Commission imposed on the scheme to ensure compliance. [27292/22]

2022-05-31

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the actions he intends to take given the findings of the Mulcahy Report into allegations of planning irregularities in County Donegal. [27293/22]

2022-05-31

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of local authorities that record domestic violence as distinct from relationship breakdown as a category of eligibility for emergency accommodation by county; and the number of recorded applications for each county in each of the years 2019, 2020 and 2021, in tabular form. [27326/22]

2022-05-31

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the details of the plan by the Dublin Region Homeless Executive to add domestic violence as a distinct category to its Pathway Accommodation and Support System; and the undertaking that he can give in relation to its adoption by other local authorities and housing bodies. [27327/22]

2022-05-31

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average cost of retrofitting local authority social homes to a building energy rating B2 or cost optimal equivalent in each of the years 2019 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form. [27436/22]

2022-05-31

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of local authority social homes that have been retrofitted to a building energy rating B2 or cost optimal equivalent by local authority in each of the years 2019 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form. [27437/22]

2022-05-31

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of local authority social homes that have been retrofitted with an air source heat pump by local authority in each of the years 2019 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form. [27438/22]

2022-05-31

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average cost of retrofitting local authority social homes with an air source heat pump, by local authority in each of the years 2019 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form. [27439/22]

2022-05-31

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the breakdown of the building energy ratings achieved by homes retrofitted through the Midlands Retrofit Programme in 2021 and 2022; and the reason for the underspend in addition to the Covid-19 pandemic. [27440/22]

2022-05-31

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of local authority social homes that have been retrofitted to a building energy rating B2 or cost optimal equivalent through the Midlands Retrofit Programme, by local authority in tabular form. [27441/22]

2022-05-31

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of homes, broken down by BER rating, prior to their retrofitting under the Midlands Retrofit Programme in 2021 and 2022, by local authority; the number of homes, broken down by BER rating, after their retrofitting under the Midlands Retrofit Programme in 2021 and 2022, by local authority in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27442/22]

2022-05-31

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 684 of 26 April 2022, the definition of deep retrofit and shallow retrofit as referenced in the document linked in the response; the average works completed under both shallow and deep retrofits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27443/22]

2022-05-31

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated carbon emissions savings from the Energy Efficiency Retrofit Programme, annually from 2013 to date in tabular form. [27444/22]

2022-05-31

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated revenue yield from an increase in the derelict site levy to 20 percent in a full year. [27984/22]

2022-05-31

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average cost to the Exchequer of a social home delivered through the buy-and-renew-scheme in the past 12 months. [28105/22]

2022-05-31

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average cost to the Exchequer of a social home delivered through the acquisitions programme in the past 12 months and in 2019 and 2020. [28106/22]

2022-05-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will ensure that all allegations of conflicts of interest, allegations of inappropriate decisions and behaviour and allegations of inappropriate relationships with planning or potential planning applicants by members of An Bord Pleanála are included in a report by a person (details supplied) commissioned on these matters by him. [26868/22]

2022-05-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide the details of funded housing programmes including social housing, affordable purchase housing, cost rental housing, private sector activation schemes broken down by scheme, funding allocation, funding drawdown, delivery targets and actually delivery in each of the years 2016 to 2021, in tabular form. [26869/22]

2022-05-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will publish the expression of interest document that his Department and the Housing Agency are circulating to developers related to the croí cónaithe cities scheme. [26270/22]

2022-05-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide a list of all the developers, building contractors, professional organisations and others that his Department and the Housing Agency consulted in developing the croí cónaithe cities scheme. [26271/22]

2022-05-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if a standard developer's margin will be permitted in the market price charged for apartments benefiting from the croí cónaithe cities scheme.. [26272/22]

2022-05-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if build to rent apartments with the build to rent design standards will not be eligible to apply for funding via the croí cónaithe cities scheme.. [26273/22]

2022-05-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the details of the public service benchmarking exercise used in bundles 1 and 2 of the social housing public private partnerships. [25492/22]

2022-05-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the review of IS 465 is expected to be complete; and if the enhanced defective block remediation scheme can be open to applications prior to the completion of the NSAI review of IS 465. [25493/22]

2022-05-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he requested that front line homeless services staff funded through his Department would be included in the Department of Health’s special Covid-19 payment; and if not, if he will raise the matter with the Minister for Health. [24158/22]

2022-05-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason that no housing options for an aging population policy statement implementation reports have been published in 2020 and 2021; and when the next implementation report will be published. [24578/22]

2022-05-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the details of all persons and organisations consulted by his Department in determining the viability challenge and other details of the Croí Cónaithe cities scheme; if he will commit to publish the data underpinning the viability challenge and the data underpinning the subsidy level of up to €120,000 in Dublin and potentially 20% higher elsewhere. [24579/22]

2022-05-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the breakdown of all affordable housing developments funded by his Department via AHF, CREL, the LDA or delivered via Part V by local authority area in tabular form; and the number of affordable homes in each scheme. [24580/22]

2022-05-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of and which of the 101 recommendations from the 2016 review of an Bord Pleanála that have now been fully implemented; the status of the remainder; and the timescale for the full implementation of the recommendations. [24591/22]

2022-05-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if build to rent planning permissions and developments will not be eligible for the Croí Cónaithe cities subsidy in cases in which they do not meet the Governments design standards for build to purchase apartments. [24619/22]

2022-05-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of extant planning permissions for apartments in all of the cities eligible for the Croí Cónaithe Cities programme with a breakdown by those permissions using the build to rent design standards and those using the build to buy standards by number of apartment schemes; and the number of units in each scheme in tabular form. [24620/22]

2022-05-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if there is any provision in the HAP legislation to allow a single HAP claim to be split and paid to two separate bank accounts in cases in which the rented property is owned by two separate individuals. [24621/22]

2022-05-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the term market value in 2.(1) of the eligibility criteria with respect to S.I. No. 183 of 2022, means the full price of the home including the purchase price and the affordable housing fund subsidy. [24711/22]

2022-05-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update on the interim guidelines for the installation of rooftop solar panels. [23603/22]

2022-05-11

VOTE

Affordable Housing · 2 divisions

✗ voted against the motion the motion motion passed · 79–57
✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion passed · 78–57

2022-05-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he intends to publish the report into allegations of planning corruption in County Donegal; and the actions that he intends to take on foot of the contents of the Mulcahy Report. [22768/22]

2022-05-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of rapid build homes funded by his Department in each of the years since 2016, broken down by the number in each local authority; the average cost per unit in each county; and the average delivery time from conception, planning, commencement and completion again in each local authority in tabular form. [22777/22]

2022-05-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if there has been a change in policy with respect to tenants in arrears with their HAP payments to local authorities entering into repayment agreement; and if so, the policy change; and when it was introduced. [23245/22]

2022-05-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the difference between the Quality Standards Framework that applies to voluntary sector homeless emergency accommodation and the Quality Standards Framework as it applied to private providers of emergency homeless accommodation in tabular form. [23246/22]

2022-05-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of cost rental homes he expects to be delivered via the cost rental equity loan in 2022; and the number of affordable purchase homes he expects to be delivered via the Affordable Housing Fund in 2022. [23357/22]

2022-05-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the social housing acquisition limits and or targets for each local authority for 2022. [23405/22]

2022-05-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on the March 2022 homelessness report of his Department. [22549/22]

2022-05-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the terms of reference for his senior-counsel-led report on alleged conflicts of interest at An Bord Pleanála cover all three sets of issues now in the public domain; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22550/22]

2022-05-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will confirm if the terms of reference for his review of the allegations of conflict of interest related to a member of An Bord Pleanála relate to all three sets of allegations now in the public domain; and if he will share the terms of reference for this review with the opposition spokespersons on housing. [22397/22]

2022-05-04

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the new criteria for local authority acquisitions; if a circular has been issued in relation to same; and if so, if he will publish the circular. [22032/22]

2022-04-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the nature of approved housing body and rental accommodation scheme leases; the average cost of such leases; the length of such leases; the person or body that owns the properties at the end of the leases; and the number of such leases that are managed by the approved housing body the lease versus those in which the approved housing body will own at the end of the lease. [19462/22]

2022-04-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of council mortgages drawn down in 2021 in each council administrative area; the average amount of the loan drawn down; the percentage which these drawdowns represent of loans approved in 2021; and the percentage which these drawdowns represent of loans applied for in 2021, in tabular form. [19463/22]

2022-04-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of active housing assistance payment tenancies in each local authority at the end of each year from 2014 to 2021, in tabular form. [19464/22]

2022-04-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the way that the approval process by his Department for approved housing body, capital advance leasing facility, Housing Finance Agency-funded social housing projects differs from the approved housing body and capital assistance scheme funded social housing projects and local authority Social Housing Investment Programme funded social housing new build projects. [19466/22]

2022-04-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the difference between his Department's approval process for local authority Social Housing Investment Programme construction social homes and local authority Social Housing Investment Programme turnkey social housing developments. [19467/22]

2022-04-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of social housing retrofits by local authority per year from 2016 to 2021; the average cost of the retrofit per home in each county for each year in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19473/22]

2022-04-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will include an identifier for medical priority need and a separate identifier for wheelchair liveability need in the forthcoming annual housing needs assessment review undertaken by each local authority and subsequently published as the summary of housing need by the Housing Agency (details supplied). [19516/22]

2022-04-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans to amend part M of the technical guidance documents of the building regulations to include wheelchair liveability guidance and guidance for universal design plus and universal design plus. [19517/22]

2022-04-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the guidance he intends to issue to local authorities for the forthcoming mid-term review of the Traveller Accommodation Programme; if he plans to request the local authorities to consider the content and recommendations of the Irish Equality and Human Rights Commissions Equality review of the Traveller Accommodation Programmes in the context of the guidance he intends to issue to local authorities for the forthcoming mid-term review of the programmes; and if he will include specific reference in councils mid-term reviews to the issues highlighted by the Commission. [19649/22]

2022-04-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if a review of his housing plan is currently under way; when the review was agreed; the terms of office; the person or body involved in the review; and when the review will be concluded and its outcome published. [19718/22]

2022-04-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of meetings of the Housing For All secretary delivery group that have taken place since September 2021; the persons in attendance at those meetings; and if he will publish the minutes of these meetings on his Department’s website. [20410/22]

2022-04-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing; Local Government and Heritage if he has any concerns in relation to the conduct of members of An Bord Pleanála particularly with respect to conflicts of interest or potential conflicts of interest between their decisions with respect to strategic housing development applications and their private business interests. [20748/22]

2022-04-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he intends to bring forward amendments to the legislation that underpins the appointment of members to An Bord Pleanála to ensure that all future appointments to the board are made via the public appointments process. [20749/22]

2022-04-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the breakdown, by local authority, of the affordable housing targets funded by the affordable housing fund from 2022 to 2026. [20842/22]

2022-04-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the breakdown, by local authority, of the affordable cost rental housing targets funded by the cost rental equity loan from 2022 to 2026. [20843/22]

2022-04-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of local authority homes that received an energy retrofit in 2021 by local authority; the average cost per unit in each local authority for the retrofit; and the average contribution from his Department per unit in each local authority for the retrofit in tabular form. [20869/22]

2022-04-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average cost to the Exchequer in 2021 per unit of accommodation for (details supplied), in tabular form. [20870/22]

2022-04-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the current members of An Board Pleanála, the Minister who appointed each and the current remuneration of each, in tabular form. [20920/22]

2022-04-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is revising the macro housing delivery targets in the housing plan from an average 33,000 per year in view of the Ukrainian refugee crisis; and if so, the new targets and additional funding that is being provided. [18950/22]

2022-04-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide a breakdown of the social housing new build delivery for 2021 by social housing capital investment programme construction, social housing capital investment programme turnkey, capital advance leasing facility construction, capital advance leasing facility turnkey, capital assistance scheme construction, capital assistance scheme turnkey, part V acquisition and private public partnership. [18951/22]

2022-04-05

PQ

Asked Taoiseach

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Taoiseach the estimated impact of voted expenditure for Vote 34, subhead A32 Affordable Housing Fund which amounts to €60,000,000 for 2022 in respect of the General Government Balance. [18144/22]

2022-04-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he expects to publish the general scheme of the legislation for the enhanced defective block remediation scheme for counties Donegal and Mayo; and if other counties including County Clare will be included in this scheme. [17729/22]

2022-04-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of local authority social homes that were subject to retrofitting energy upgrades for each year from 2016 to date, in tabular form; the amount of funding provided each year for these schemes; if there was an underspend in a particular year; if so, the reason for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17978/22]

2022-04-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of social housing developments that have availed of the one stage approval process; the total number of social housing units delivered via this process to date; and the total number in the pipeline as yet not completed. [18002/22]

2022-04-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of new staff funded by his Department who have taken up their posts in local authority housing departments in recent months by local authority and the position held in tabular form. [18003/22]

2022-04-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the resolution of the unsold affordable homes held by the Dublin local authorities; if as part of the use of the unsold affordable units post 2010, some of these units were included in a rent to buy scheme in Dublin city; and if so, the status of these rent-to-buy units. [18029/22]

2022-04-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the proportion of funding allocated to Vote 34, subhead A15, estate regeneration and refurbishment, which will be used to achieve the output target for 2022 of 100 units; and the average cost of delivering each unit. [18140/22]

2022-04-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the proportion of funding allocated to Vote 34, subhead A17, repair and leasing, which will be used to achieve the output target for 2022 of 120 units; and the average cost of delivering each unit. [18141/22]

2022-04-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated impact of voted expenditure for Vote 34, subhead A8, capital advance leasing facility, which amounts to €293,905,000 for 2022 in respect of the general government balance. [18142/22]

2022-04-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated impact of voted expenditure for Vote 34, subhead A28, cost rental equity loan, which amounts to €70,000,000 for 2022 including additional approved housing body borrowing in respect of the general government balance. [18143/22]

2022-04-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the funding provided to the Land Development Agency in respect of its non-commercial activities, as included in schedule 12 of the Land Development Agency Act 2021, for the years 2021 and 2022. [18145/22]

2022-04-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated impact of voted expenditure for Vote 34, subhead A33, Croí Cónaithe, which amounts to €50,000,000 for 2022 in respect of the general government balance. [18146/22]

2022-04-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the additional funding required to increase the Vote 34 subhead A7, capital assistance scheme outputs target to 1,000 units. [18147/22]

2022-04-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide a breakdown of Vote 34, subhead A3, local authority housing, in terms of delivery models and funding streams employed, including corresponding output targets to achieve an overall total of 5,030 units as per the Revised Estimates for Public Services 2022. [18148/22]

2022-04-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average subsidy per unit envisaged through the first home scheme as included in Vote 34, subhead A31. [18149/22]

2022-04-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the breakdown of the 1,000 units to be delivered by the Land Development Agency in 2022 in terms of affordable purchase and affordable rental homes. [18150/22]

2022-04-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of active HAP tenancies in place at the end of each year from 2016 to 2021. [18180/22]

2022-04-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of active RAS tenancies in place at the end of each year from 2016 to 2021. [18181/22]

2022-04-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of active long-term leases of privately owned properties for social housing including those leased by local authorities, associated housing bodies and enhanced leases at the end of each year from 2016 to 2021. [18182/22]

2022-03-30

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will confirm the voted expenditure for the Capital Assistance Scheme for 2022; the number of units of accommodation to be delivered with this fund in that year; the reason the number of units has been reduced from 600 to 400 in the revised estimates and if he will provide details for the significant increased cost per unit arising from this change. [16823/22]

2022-03-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason that Ireland is yet to ratify the Nagoya Protocol, a supplementary agreement to the Convention on Biodiversity, which 133 parties have ratified including many EU members. [16320/22]

2022-03-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on the implementation of the recommendations of the Interim Report on Mortality in Single Homeless Population 2020 including on the proposals for adult safeguarding reviews and trauma informed care. [16444/22]

2022-03-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of housing commencements broken down by apartments, houses and duplexes in each of the years from 2016 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form. [16307/22]

2022-03-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of housing completions broken down by apartments, houses and duplexes in each of the years from 2016 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form. [16308/22]

2022-03-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average capital and current expenditure costs for one, two and three bed social housing houses and apartments delivered by approved housing bodies through the capital assistance and the payment and availability schemes in the past 12 months. [16309/22]

2022-03-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total cost of the payment and availability agreements currently in place for approved housing bodies funded alongside the Capital Advanced Loan Facility; and the total number of such units that receiving funding. [16310/22]

2022-03-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the 2021 social housing output report will be published. [16312/22]

2022-03-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will outline the future plans for the medically supervised shielding units created as part of the HSE and Dublin Region Housing Executive Covid-19 response in Dublin and if his Department intends to continue funding these units as permanent facilities post Covid. [16447/22]

2022-03-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of inspections carried out by the Dublin Region Housing Executive in 2021 as part of the National Quality Standards Framework; if private emergency accommodation providers have been brought under the Standards Framework and if they have been included in any inspections to date. [16448/22]

2022-03-29

PQ

Asked Health

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Health if he will outline the future plans for the medically supervised shielding units created as part of the HSE and Dublin Region Housing Executive Covid-19 response in Dublin and if his Department intends to continue funding these units as permanent facilities post Covid. [16446/22]

2022-03-22

PQ

Asked Finance

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Finance the status of his Department's engagement with an organisation (details supplied) with regard to the status of bank debt versus State debt in the affordable housing scheme; and the implications for the taxpayer if the banks demand that their debt takes priority over the State equity share in cases of default by the home buyer. [14364/22]

2022-03-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if there is legislation in relation to the prohibiting the practice of landlords requesting and then withholding a refund of holding deposits in the private rented sector; and if not, if he will consider introducing legislation to ban this practice. [13814/22]

2022-03-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the review by the National Parks and Wildlife Service will be published. and if he will report on his work on this matter. [13951/22]

2022-03-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans to amend the Building Regulations Part B (Fire Safety) to allow for cross-laminated buildings to go higher than 10 metres in order to deliver high quality mid-rise high-density zero carbon apartment developments. [14343/22]

2022-03-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if Ukrainian nationals fleeing the war into Ireland will be able to apply for social housing support and to access HAP during their stay in Ireland. [14352/22]

2022-03-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of social housing leased properties held by the National Asset Residential Property Services ; the breakdown of the location of the units by local authority area; the amount paid to date from for these long-term leases; the length of time remaining and the expected cost remaining on these leases; the date upon which these properties will be transferred to the LDA; the reason the LDA has been chosen to manage these units; and any other update on NARPS that may be available. [14357/22]

2022-03-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the mid-term review of the Traveller accommodation programmes is to commence; the guidance that has been issued to local authorities with respect to this review; and if he will publish all documentation received by his Department regarding this review to ensure full transparency with respect to the implementation of the Traveller accommodation programmes. [14362/22]

2022-03-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of his Department's engagement with an organisation (details supplied) with regard to the status of bank debt versus State debt in the affordable housing fund and the shared equity loan; and the implications for the taxpayer if the banks demand that their debt takes priority over the State equity share in cases of default by the home buyer. [14363/22]

2022-03-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if cash purchases or lump sum purchases above a 10% deposit are permissible under the local authority tenant purchase scheme. [14367/22]

2022-03-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he plans to review the house price limits for local authority mortgages in view of the rising cost of new homes. [15109/22]

2022-03-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the capital cost ceilings for each local authority for the Social Housing Investment Programme, part V, turnkey and acquisitions in tabular form; and if these ceilings have been reviewed recently or are in the process of being reviewed. [13678/22]

2022-03-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of social housing developments and units currently delayed due to the cost being above the capital cost ceilings in tabular form. [13679/22]

2022-03-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of social housing developments and units currently delayed due to issues arising from the application of the availability agreement formulae; if the formulae are being reviewed; and if so, when the review will be concluded. [13680/22]

2022-03-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of approved housing body, capital advance leasing facility and capital assistance scheme units delivered in 2021 in each local authority; the average capital advance leasing facility and capital assistance scheme payment in each local authority per unit; the average all-in cost of the social housing units per county for each schemes; and if all figures will be provided with a breakdown between capital advance leasing construction and capital advance leasing facility turnkey in tabular form. [13681/22]

2022-03-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will release the National Parks and Wildlife Service report into the works carried out in the basement of Emo Court in 2019 and 2020 following an inspection by a person (details supplied) in December 2020; and if a commitment will be given to full publication of recommendations made in the report [12726/22]

2022-03-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount spent on Traveller accommodation in 2021 by each local authority. [12928/22]

2022-03-03

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his response to the rising levels of homelessness and, in particular, the rising levels of family homelessness caused by an increase in vacant possession notices to quit and the collapse of homeless exits in the past 12 months. [12315/22]

2022-03-03

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the way that the cost rental equity loan will deliver affordable cost rental homes in Dublin city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12316/22]

2022-03-03

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on the purchase of 300 new homes, including houses and duplexes by a company (details supplied). [12317/22]

2022-03-03

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on the ongoing delays in the development of social and affordable homes at a location (details supplied). [12046/22]

2022-03-03

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his Department’s response to a report by an organisation (details supplied). [12050/22]

2022-03-03

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the concerns expressed to his Department by the European Commission on the general scheme of the Housing and Planning and Development Bill 2019. [12047/22]

2022-03-03

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the review of the eligibility thresholds for social housing. [12048/22]

2022-03-03

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of developer provided infrastructure that has not yet been taken in charge by Irish Water [12049/22]

2022-03-01

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the changes that he made to the tenant incremental purchase scheme include allowing cash purchases, treating State pensions as income for the purposes of an income assessment 50% from earned income rule; and if the revised scheme has rules with respect to occupation [11009/22]

2022-03-01

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the public authority, Minister or Minister of State, who was the responsible competent authority for the conduct of determination in accordance with obligations under article 6(3) of the EU Habitats Directive, and the national regulations thereon, in respect of the proposed military exercises by the Russian Federation, which were originally proposed to be conducted in Ireland's exclusive economic zone given his Department's responsibility for the European Communities (Birds and Natural Habitats) Regulations SI. 477 of 2011, as amended; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11183/22]

2022-03-01

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he and-or the relevant Minister of State and his Department were each first notified of the proposed military exercises by the Russian Federation, which were originally proposed to be conducted in Ireland's exclusive economic zone; the Minister or Minister of State who was responsible for the screening determination under the European Union Habitats Directive (details supplied); if a screening determination was carried out to determine if a full appropriate assessment was required; if not, the reason; if so, the result of the screening determination; if a copy of the screening determination will be made available; if the information on which the determination was based will be made available to both Houses of the Oireachtas; if such European Union law requirements were communicated to the relevant authorities of the Russian Federation; if so, the date; if not, the reason; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11184/22]

2022-03-01

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the times when he or his predecessors have used their power under the Planning and Development Act 2000 to direct An Bord Pleanála to prioritise classes of applications for determination in which he or his predecessors have identified them as being of special strategic, economic or social importance to the State; the criteria used to determine whether any class of applications so prioritised met that standard; if he has given consideration to the use of these powers to direct the Board to prioritise for determination applications that would support the delivery of the Climate Action Plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11312/22]

2022-03-01

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on whether the staffing levels proposed by An Bord Pleanála for its new marine and climate unit within the strategic infrastructure development structure will be sufficient to deal with the number of planning applications expected from offshore renewable energy projects in the coming years; if he will consider working with industry, the environmental sector and other key stakeholders to identify the likely resources demands that An Bord Pleanála will face in successfully and robustly processing these applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11313/22]

2022-02-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of his Department's review of the HAP limits; his plans with respect to these limits; and if he plans to publish his Department's review. [10565/22]

2022-02-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the review by the Housing Agency of the social housing income eligibility thresholds; his plans with respect to these limits; and if he plans to publish the review. [10566/22]

2022-02-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total social housing output for 2021 broken down by new build, acquisition, leasing, Part V and leasing, by local authority and by funding stream including construction, turnkey, Part V and public private partnership. [10567/22]

2022-02-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the new rules pertaining to the local authority home loan scheme for those seeking to access the loan that previously owned and lost a family home due to insolvency or bankruptcy; the length of time after insolvency and bankruptcy before they can apply; and if he will provide any other criteria which may apply in such cases. [9251/22]

2022-02-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will report on Project Tosaigh; and if the closing of the judicial review window of challenge is still expected by 31 March 2022. [9269/22]

2022-02-16

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason for the unnecessary delay in admitting homeowners with pyrite defective block in County Clare into the defective block remediation scheme; and when these homeowners will be admitted into the scheme. [8490/22]

2022-02-16

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the general scheme of the enhanced defective block remediation scheme will be published; and if the enhanced scheme will be open to applications in 2022. [8491/22]

2022-02-16

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will list the outstanding affordable housing regulations; and when they will be published. [8492/22]

2022-02-16

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of staff employed in each local authority housing department, by employment type, including architects, engineers, clerical staff, maintenance staff and so on, in tabular form. [8704/22]

2022-02-16

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of unfilled vacancies in local authority housing departments, by employment type, in each local authority. [8705/22]

2022-02-16

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the requests from all local authorities for additional housing department staff on foot of the announced new positions, by employment type and local authority, in tabular form. [8706/22]

2022-02-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the European Commission has indicated at any time concerns or comments in relation to the general scheme of the Housing and Planning and Development Bill 2019 and on developments on access to justice in Ireland since the publication of the scheme in 2019; if so, the detail of such concerns; if he will provide a copy of such correspondence from the European Commission and the responses furnished by the Irish authorities on this matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7699/22]

2022-02-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide a list of all functions which fall within the responsibility of his Department and a list of all of functions delegated to the two Ministers of State within his Department. [7707/22]

2022-02-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of social housing projects currently in his Department’s four stage approval process; and the average length of time these projects have been in that process by local authority. [7247/22]

2022-02-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average all-in development cost of Social Housing Investment Programme social homes delivered in 2021; the average all-in cost of turnkey social homes delivered in 2021; and the average all-in cost of Part V social homes delivered in 2021; and the average all-in cost of acquired social homes delivered in 2021, by local authority in tabular form. [7248/22]

2022-02-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will revise circular 02-2022 on social housing acquisitions to allow local authorities to purchase second-hand properties in which such properties have HAP and RAS tenants in situ and the landlord is selling the property and has issued a vacant possession notice to quit thus placing the tenant at risk of homelessness. [7250/22]

2022-02-08

PQ

Asked Taoiseach

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Taoiseach the status of the tender issued for the provision of data strategy services for the Government's housing plan; the number of applications that were received; the names of the organisations that applied; and when he expects the contract to be awarded. [6336/22]

2022-02-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will review the antisocial provisions of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014 with a view to ensuring that local authorities have sufficient powers to deal with cases of extreme antisocial behaviour. [6335/22]

2022-02-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update on the feasibility study currently being undertaken on the future use of Cathal Brugha Barracks, Dublin; when this study will be published; and the engagement his Department has had with the Land Development Agency and the Department of Defence on this issue. [6428/22]

2022-02-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if pension tax relief is disregarded for the purposes of calculating differential rent for social housing tenants. [6475/22]

2022-02-08

PQ

Asked Defence

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Defence if he will provide an update on his Department’s input to the feasibility study currently being undertaken on the future use of Cathal Brugha Barracks, Dublin; when this study will be published; and the engagement his Department has had with the Land Development Agency and the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage on this issue. [6429/22]

2022-02-02

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated amount spent by his Department on the design, marketing and promotion of materials in relation to the current housing plan and its associated programmes and measures and any other aspect of his Department’s activities. [5186/22]

2022-02-02

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the organisations that were paid fees for the design, marketing and promotion of materials in relation to the current housing plan and its associated programmes and measures and any other aspect of his Department’s activities; and the amount that each of the organisations were paid in tabular form. [5187/22]

2022-02-02

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 308 of 25 January 2022, the total expenditure on homeless Housing Assistance Payments in 2021; and if the expenditure is accounted for in the total Housing Assistance Payment expenditure detailed in the response. [5207/22]

2022-02-02

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when social housing tenants currently living in previously unsold affordable homes will be allowed to purchase those homes under the tenant purchase scheme given that they were promised in writing at the time of taking up their tenancies. [5210/22]

2022-02-02

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason that his Department’s monthly homeless report no longer provides data on single parent family homelessness; and if he will ensure that all future monthly homeless reports include a breakdown of family homelessness by single and two parent families. [5301/22]

2022-02-01

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he plans to publish the review of social housing income thresholds which was completed at the end of 2021; if he plans to raise the thresholds; and if so, when and the amount. [4404/22]

2022-02-01

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the timeline for the revised defective block redress scheme; when the legislation will be published; and when the new scheme will be open to applications. [4405/22]

2022-02-01

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total allocation of funding to Dublin City Council for the affordable purchase and affordable cost rental homes at O’Devaney Gardens; the allocation of the affordable housing fund per unit of affordable purchase accommodation; and the allocation of cost rental equity loan or other related funding for the purchase of the affordable cost rental accommodation on this development. [4501/22]

2022-02-01

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average number of weeks that the four stage approval process is currently taking for social housing new builds that were completed in the past 12 months. [4802/22]

2022-02-01

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the new State architecture policy will be published. [4803/22]

2022-01-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the action he plans to take to slow down the disorderly exit of accidental and semi-professional landlords from the private rented sector and its impact on rising levels of homelessness. [3576/22]

2022-01-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on whether the increased reliance on turnkeys by local authorities, approved housing bodies, the Land Development Agency and the Housing Agency for the delivery of social and affordable housing as outlined in the Government’s new housing plan will inflate the cost of social and affordable housing and will put those public agencies in direct competition with private purchasers for the limited supply of private homes. [3577/22]

2022-01-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if, given his role in overseeing the vacant homes strategy, his attention has been drawn to the discrepancy between derelict units recorded in the GeoDirectory residential buildings report and those on the derelict sites register nationally; if his attention has been further drawn to the lack of implementation and collection of the derelict sites levy; and the action being taken to combat same. [3578/22]

2022-01-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the delivery of genuinely affordable homes to rent and to buy on an estate (details supplied) and Poolbeg, Dublin city. [3324/22]

2022-01-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will report on the social housing output as of the end of Q4 of 2021. [3323/22]

2022-01-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide further details on the way that a person who has been through the insolvency process can access the local authority mortgage scheme. [3326/22]

2022-01-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the ongoing negotiations between the various parties on the creation of a single water utility. [3327/22]

2022-01-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on the findings of the report A Hidden Crisis: Traveller homelessness in the South West published 18 January 2022; and the response by his Department to the report. [3325/22]

2022-01-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the full year expenditure for housing assistance payment, rental accommodation scheme and leasing for 2021 will be available. [3518/22]

2022-01-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of Travellers in Cork city and in counties Cork and Kerry experiencing homelessness and in emergency accommodation, respectively; and the number of the Traveller families accommodated in those areas by accommodation type from 2017 to date in tabular form. [63561/21]

2022-01-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if funding has been made available for research into the issue of defective blocks by his Department or by the Housing Agency; if so, the amount; the persons or bodies this funding has been awarded to; the nature of the research; when it will be published; and if it will be available to the public. [63611/21]

2022-01-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total allocation for the shared equity loan fund for 2022; the amount he expects the pillar banks to add to the fund; the agency that is planned to administer the fund; if the staff of this agency will be seconded from the pillar banks; and when the loan facility will be open to applications. [63630/21]

2022-01-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the actions his Department plans to take to ensure the practice of landlords offering accommodation for sex is not permitted within the rental system in view of newspaper reports of landlords offering accommodation for sex. [63631/21]

2022-01-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide details of the proposed CPO and sale of derelict and vacant properties by the Housing Agency; the amount of funding that has been made available for 2023; the targets for 2022; if this is part of a Croí Connaithe or in addition to it; and if these properties will be in cities, towns or both. [1078/22]

2022-01-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is reviewing the advice to local authorities with regard to the purchase of second-hand homes for social housing; and if he will consider allowing local authorities to purchase property that has a sitting tenant in receipt of housing assistant payment, HAP, rental accommodation scheme, RAS, or rent supplement in circumstances in which the tenant has received a notice to quit. [1211/22]

2022-01-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the Commission on Housing including the membership of same; the number of applicants; the names of the unsuccessful applicants; the terms of reference; the work programme; and the timeline for the modules being considered. [1875/22]

2022-01-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of HAP, RAS and privately owned long-term leases at the end of 2021; and the cost to the Exchequer of each scheme in 2021, in tabular form. [1876/22]

2022-01-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of social housing leases in place at the end of 2021, by lease type, that is, approved housing body lease to own, mortgage to rent, National Asset Residential Property Services, private sector lease and so on; and the cost to the Exchequer of each of these categories of leases; and the cost as of the end of 2021, in tabular form. [1878/22]

2022-01-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of new Traveller specific units of accommodation provided in 2021, by local authority in tabular form. [1879/22]

2022-01-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the social housing targets for each local authority in each year from 2022 to 2025, in tabular form. [1880/22]

2022-01-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the regulations governing the affordable rental and purchase schemes will be published; and if he will provide a summary of such regulations published to date. [1920/22]

2022-01-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the review of income eligibility thresholds for social housing that according to Housing for All was to be completed in Q4 of 2021. [1987/22]

2022-01-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the National Homeless Action Committee; the membership of same; the terms of reference; the number of meetings to date; and if the invites of the group will be published on the website of his Department. [1988/22]

2022-01-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the targets and the delivery data of Housing First tenancies from 2018 to 2021 as per the first Housing First action plan in tabular form. [1989/22]

2022-01-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he intends to enact the deposit retention scheme passed into law in 2015. [1990/22]

2022-01-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if a progress report on the target for 25% of private rental tenancies to be inspected annually under the commitment outlined in Housing for All will be provided; the percentage of private rental properties that were inspected in 2021; and the expectation for 2022. [1992/22]

2022-01-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of new social housing units, that is, new builds and acquisitions, delivered from 2016 to 2021 by housing size, that is, one bed, two bed, three bed and so on in tabular form. [1993/22]

2022-01-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the Housing for All commitment to develop a new youth homeless strategy. [1994/22]

2022-01-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans for the increased use of public private partnerships in the period from 2022 to 2025. [1995/22]

2022-01-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of his proposed reforms of the mortgage to rent scheme. [1996/22]

2022-01-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total drawdown of Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund funding in 2021, by project and amount. [1997/22]

2022-01-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of requests from local authorities to acquire new land in 2021, by local authority in tabular form; the location of the land; and the amount of funding requested. [1998/22]

2022-01-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the work of the Dublin Housing Delivery Group; the membership of same; the terms of reference; the number of meetings to date; and if a commitment will be provided that its minutes will be published on the website of his Department. [1999/22]

2022-01-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the Housing for All commitment to introduce legislation for default conciliation at the Residential Tenancies Board; the nature and detail of such conciliation; and when the legislation will be introduced. [2000/22]

2022-01-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the final social, affordable purchase and affordable cost rental output for 2021, in tabular form. [2032/22]

2021-12-14

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the development of the site of St. Kevin’s Hospital, Cork; the number of units of housing that will be delivered on the site; the number of these that will be social; the number that will be cost rental; the number that will be affordable purchase; if the average purchase cost and rental price for the affordable rental and affordable purchase can also be outlined; and the timeline for delivery. [61224/21]

2021-12-14

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the Electoral Reform Bill 2020 will be enacted in time to carry out the functions currently assigned to a constituency commission under the Electoral Act 1997 following the completion of the Census in 2022. [61566/21]

2021-12-14

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the Electoral Reform Bill 2020 will be enacted in time to carry out the functions currently assigned to local electoral boundary committees under the Local Government Act 1991 following the completion of the Census in 2022. [61567/21]

2021-12-14

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he plans to conduct a review of local electoral areas in advance of the next local government elections expected in 2024. [61568/21]

2021-12-14

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the new electoral Commission will have the remit to carry out reviews of Dáil Éireann and European Parliament boundaries in addition to local electoral boundaries alongside each other following the conclusion of the 2022 census; and if not, if the processes that would be conducted separately. [61569/21]

2021-12-14

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if there have been discussions in relation to or the likely terms of reference for a local government boundary review to be conducted prior to the expected local elections in 2024. [61570/21]

2021-12-14

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the new regulations for the affordable housing schemes will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61893/21]

2021-12-14

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the new rural planning guidelines will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61894/21]

2021-12-14

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the new guidelines for local authorities on residential densities will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61895/21]

2021-12-14

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of social housing units completed to date in 2021; and the breakdown by social housing investment programme, SHIP construction, SHIP turnkey, the capital advance leasing facility, CALF, construction, CALF turnkey, capital assistance scheme, CAS, construction, CAS turnkey, Part V purchase, Part V lease, PPP and other. [61896/21]

2021-12-14

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of social housing tenancies created to date in 2021 under the long-term leasing scheme, the housing assistance payment, HAP, and the rental accommodation scheme, RAS. [61897/21]

2021-12-14

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of new mortgage to rent tenancies funded by his Department from the start of 2021 to date. [61898/21]

2021-12-14

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of affordable homes delivered to date in 2021 under the affordable housing fund and the cost rental equity loan providing the locations and prices of the homes to rent and buy. [61899/21]

2021-12-14

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of persons working on the review by his Department of the planning system; the number of these who are external to his Department; and the cost to his Department of the work of these persons on the planning system review. [61921/21]

2021-12-14

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on the growing number of judicial reviews of residential developments being lost by An Board Pleanála and the rising cost to the State of these court decisions finding against the Board; if concerns have been raised in this regard; and the action he plans to take to ensure an improvement in the legal basis of the decisions by the Board and improved cost controls to reduce the growing cost of lost judicial reviews by the Board. [61922/21]

2021-12-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of the 200 new staff posts for council housing departments announced on 3 December 2021 that are to fill existing vacancies following retirements or illness; and the number that are additional posts above the current level of staffing in the relevant housing departments. [60996/21]

2021-12-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the action his Department can take in cases in which local authorities fail to protect the health of residents living adjacent to large construction sites in which such sites are clearly in breach of planning conditions leading to unacceptable levels of noise, vibration and dust. [60014/21]

2021-12-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the construction defects working group; when he expects to receive the report of the group; and when he expects to put in place a redress scheme for homeowners with fire safety and other structural defects. [60292/21]

2021-11-30

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the way in which the housing needs demands assessment is being used to determine the level of need for affordable housing in each local authority area in tabular form; and the affordability challenge for each local authority area as determined by the HNDA tool. [58423/21]

2021-11-30

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total staff number in his Department in each year from 2016 to 2020 and to date in 2021, by housing, local government and heritage in tabular form; and if he will provide a further breakdown of the housing functions by team. [58424/21]

2021-11-30

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of staff employed by the Housing Agency in each of the years 2016 to 2020 and to date in 2021; and the breakdown of staff in terms of function in tabular form. [58425/21]

2021-11-30

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of pending staff requests for housing departments in each local authority in tabular form; and the details of the grades of the pending staff requests and the length of time each request is pending. [58426/21]

2021-11-30

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of efforts to see credit union lending for social and affordable housing. [58427/21]

2021-11-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide the new housing and assistance payments and rental accommodation scheme targets in each of the years 2022 to 2026. [58143/21]

2021-11-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the implementation of each of the 101 recommendations of the 2016 Report Organisational Review of An Bord Pleanála in tabular form. [57726/21]

2021-11-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is currently reviewing the build-to-rent guidelines; if so, the stage this review is at; the person or body conducting the review; and the terms of reference of same. [57805/21]

2021-11-23

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 396 of 2 November 2021, if the working group in his Department that is currently examining the provision for a changing places toilet in certain buildings will also examine the Building Regulations (Part M Amendment) Regulations 2010 in terms of dwellings with a view to ensuring the provision of not just wheelchair accessible but wheelchair liveable dwellings. [57187/21]

2021-11-23

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans to improve the fire safety standards in apartments as part of the Programme for Government commitment to improve building control standards; and the plans he has to ensure that apartments built under earlier fire safety standards from the 1980s and 1990s will be brought into full compliance with more recent standards. [57240/21]

2021-11-23

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if arising from the Governments new Housing for All plan there will be a significant increase in demand for turnkey developments to deliver social and affordable housing that in addition to local authorities and approved housing bodies seeking to acquire turnkey developments from the private sector to meet social housing needs there will also be demand for turnkey developments from approved housing bodies via the Cost Rental Equity Loan, from the Land Development Agency via Project Tosaigh and via the Housing Agency via Croi Connaithe; his views on whether this increased demand for turnkey developments will drive up costs; and the number of turnkey units he expects to be purchased from private developers across each of these schemes in 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. [57244/21]

2021-11-23

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan applications, approvals and drawdowns in each month from January 2020 to October 2021;and the total value of the applications, approvals and drawdowns by local authority area and with an average approval and drawdown figure for each local authority in tabular form. [57245/21]

2021-11-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of long-term leases approved to date in 2021 by local authority area including an average cost per unit for each local authority area; the number of leased properties in each local authority area that have a single owner; and the number of leased properties that are in multi-unit developments owned by a single individual or corporate entity or portfolios of properties owned by a single owner or corporate entity in tabular form. [56659/21]

2021-11-16

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide a list of all licences granted by the NPWS to the OPW to carry out works on Emo Court and the dates the licences were granted. [55706/21]

2021-11-16

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide details of the facilities and funding that is currently in place for the treatment and-or rehabilitation of injured wildlife. [55707/21]

2021-11-16

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 320 and 321 of 9 November 2021, if the homeless HAP numbers in the third table in the question are active HAP tenancies or set-up HAP tenancies. [56074/21]

2021-11-16

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide a list of all reports commissioned by his Department or reviewed by his Department on defective buildings in the past five years including the authors of the report and if the reports have been or are due to be published. [56080/21]

2021-11-16

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide a list of local authorities that do and do not have biodiversity officers; the local authorities that have funding requests pending for such officers; and the efforts he is making to ensure that all local authorities have such officers as soon as possible. [56148/21]

2021-11-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he plans to attend the proposed investor roadshows to attract large institutional investors into the Irish residential market; the number of these roadshows that are planned; the location and when they will take place; and the sort of investors he plans to meet if new incentives are being offered to these funds. [55415/21]

2021-11-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his Department will initiate a review of An Bord Pleanála in view of the recent High Court decisions against An Bord Pleanála with respect to the docklands strategic development zone to ensure its future decisions are consistent with the principles of good policymaking and democratic planning. [55416/21]

2021-11-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the support his Department is providing to local authorities in the collection of derelict site levies in view of the fact that less than 3% of possible revenue was collected in 2020 nationally. [55417/21]

2021-11-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the additional support and finance that will be put in place for Irish Water to remedy the ongoing issues with the waste treatment systems in 34 towns and villages as outlined in the EPA report on Urban Waste Water Treatment in 2020. [55103/21]

2021-11-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the work of the Independent Working Group to examine defective housing. [55107/21]

2021-11-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason for reducing estate regeneration and refurbishment funding in Budget 2022 to €50 million from the €73 million that had been allocated for 2021. [55106/21]

2021-11-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the action he plans to take to address the alarming increase in homelessness as reported by his Department’s monthly reports. [55105/21]

2021-11-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of his work with Dublin City Council to deliver affordable homes on the Poolbeg Strategic Development Zone site. [55104/21]

2021-11-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total expenditure to date on homeless HAP. [54018/21]

2021-11-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of homeless HAP tenancies in Dublin at the end of each quarter from Q1 2016 to Q1 2021, in tabular form. [54019/21]

2021-11-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will undertake a fundamental review of An Bord Pleanála to ensure that its decisions are made with good quality place making and democratic decision making in planning in view of the latest High Court decision against An Bord Pleanála with respect to the Dublin City Council material amendments to the Docklands SDZ. [54101/21]

2021-11-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the establishment of a deposit retention scheme given the legislation passed on this matter by the Houses of the Oireachtas in 2015 and in view of the loss of deposits by tenants of a company (details supplied) when the company went into liquidation. [54114/21]

2021-11-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the final date for strategic housing development pre-planning applications to An Bord Pleanála; and the expected final deadline for full strategic housing development applications to An Bord Pleanála in view of the delay in the introduction and passing of the planning and development (amendment) (LSRD) Bill. [54144/21]

2021-11-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will implement the recommendations in the July 2013 report titled Report on the Title of the Architect; and if he will support the call from an organisation (details supplied) to include a standard grandfather clause in Part 3 of the Building Control Act 2007. [54512/21]

2021-11-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the report into alleged planning irregularities in County Donegal will be published; and the action he plans to take arising from the contents of the report. [54549/21]

2021-11-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his attention has been drawn to works carried out in the basement of Emo Court in January 2019 prior to the granting of a derogation licence; and his views on and if he will address same. [54610/21]

2021-11-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his attention has been drawn to a recommendation of prosecution from the NPWS regarding works carried out at Emo Court that involved the disturbance of a bat roost. [54611/21]

2021-11-04

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the improvement works in lieu of local authority housing schemes can be accessed for works on a private property in which the applicant is a council tenant and surrenders their tenancy to move into the funded works in a private property owned by an extended family member. [53874/21]

2021-11-02

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the deadline for pre-application strategic housing development submissions has been extended beyond October 2021; the reason for this extension; the date of the new deadline; and if the new deadline for formal strategic housing development applications to An Board Pleanála will be prior to the discontinuation of the controversial strategic housing development fast-track planning process. [52221/21]

2021-11-02

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his attention has been drawn to the destruction of a bat roost at Emo Court House; if the necessary authorisation was sought; and if he will seek a prosecution under the Wildlife Acts if the destruction of the roost without authorisation is confirmed. [52303/21]

2021-11-02

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of social housing acquisitions agreed for each local authority for each year from 2021 to 2025 as part of their overall social housing targets in tabular form. [53154/21]

2021-10-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update on the recently announced comprehensive review of planning legislation; the details on those that are involved in the group conducting the review; the terms of reference; the timeline for completion of the review; and if there will be an opportunity for third party and Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage involvement in the review before it makes any recommendations to Government. [51459/21]

2021-10-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he has secured Government approval to introduce a new rent pressure zone cap on rents in the private rental sector; if so, when the legislation will be introduced; and the expected value of the new cap. [50504/21]

2021-10-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide a breakdown of the €246 million capital carryover from 2021 to 2022 as detailed in footnote 15 on page 116 of the Budget Expenditure Book, by area of expenditure including the amount unspent in that budget line in 2021 and the consequent impact on delivery compared to targets (details supplied). [51202/21]

2021-10-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total allocation in Budget 2022 for the National Parks and Wildlife Service; and the value of the increase in the allocation from the 2021 funding. [51203/21]

2021-10-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update on the participation of the pillar banks in the first home shared equity loan scheme including the amount of money the banks will invest in the scheme; the role their staff will have in administering the scheme; when the scheme will be open to applicants; and when he expects the Central Bank to give its view on the participation of the banks in the scheme. [51204/21]

2021-10-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if statistical and other information (details supplied) will be provided. [51210/21]

2021-10-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount of the €468 million of expenditure on social housing delivery detailed in page 123 of the Budget 2022 expenditure report that is carryover from the underspend in 2021; and the amount that is new expenditure from €644 million additional capital allocation as detailed in page 44 of the revised National Development Plan. [51211/21]

2021-10-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if an explanation will be provided of the relationship between the 6,248 SHCEP figure detailed on page 118 of the Budget 2022 expenditure report and the 5,750 SHCEP figure detailed on page 123 of the same report. [51212/21]

2021-10-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is considering exempting peat extraction from the planning system for new developments and the substitute consent process for unauthorised developments; if so, the reason for considering such a move; the timeframe for a decision on this matter; and if such a move would be compliant with EU environmental law. [51326/21]

2021-10-12

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 297 of 21 September 2021 and responses to recommendations 1 and 2 in the table, the dates on which the actions and decisions taken on the way the Government has as per recommendation 2, prioritized the introduction of separate and complementary legislation to complete the designation, regulation and management of marine protected areas and subsequently that marine protected areas are included in the National Marine Planning Framework and Marine Spatial Plan in tabular form; the status of the drafting of the heads of legislation for marine protected areas; when they will be published; and when pre-legislative scrutiny will be requested. [50037/21]

2021-10-12

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 297 of 21 September 2021, the dates on which the actions and decisions taken on the way the Government has as per recommendation 2, prioritised the introduction of separate and complementary legislation to complete the designation, regulation and management of marine protected areas and subsequently that marine protected areas are included in the National Marine Planning Framework and Marine Spatial Plan in tabular form; the status of the drafting of the heads of the maritime area planning Bill; when they will be published; when pre-legislative scrutiny is envisaged; the legislation that is considered to be a priority by the Government for scrutiny and to be enacted by the Houses of the Oireachtas over the legislation for marine protected areas; when the Bill will come before the Houses of the Oireachtas; and the way in which Government has prioritised same. [49245/21]

2021-10-12

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of affordable rental homes that will be completed by the end of 2021 via the cost rental equity loan. [49818/21]

2021-10-12

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of affordable rental homes that will be completed by the end of 2021 via the serviced sites fund and the affordable housing funding scheme. [49819/21]

2021-10-12

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of affordable purchase homes that will be completed by the end of 2021 via the serviced sites fund and the affordable housing funding scheme. [49820/21]

2021-10-12

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the completion and publication of the updated guidelines for rural planning that were due to be published in Q1 of 2021. [49821/21]

2021-10-12

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the 2021 housing needs assessment report will be published by the Housing Agency. [49822/21]

2021-10-06

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he has met with representatives from a group (details supplied), Dublin City Council, NAMA and others to ensure that the requirement for up to 600 affordable homes in the Poolbeg SDZ will be achieved; if he will provide details of when the meeting and or meetings occurred; and the outcome of the meeting and or meetings. [48473/21]

2021-10-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the public sector benchmarking exercise used to evaluate and award the first bundle of social housing public private partnership homes will be published. [47511/21]

2021-10-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide the recently agreed social housing targets for each local authority with a sub breakdown of social housing new build, acquisition and long-term lease for each local authority in tabular form. [48155/21]

2021-10-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the breakdown, by local authority, of affordable purchase and affordable rental targets for each year from 2022 to 2025, in tabular form. [48156/21]

2021-10-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage , further to Parliamentary Question No. 280 of 21 September, the number of CREL funded cost-rental homes that will be purchased and made available for tenants in the first quarter of 2022; and the details of the location, unit size and costs of same. [48194/21]

2021-09-30

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he plans to meet a group (details supplied). [47353/21]

2021-09-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the changes he plans to make to the rent pressure zones if the harmonised index of consumer prices hits and breaches 4%. [46715/21]

2021-09-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is committed to introducing some form of redress mechanism for homeowners with defective homes in Budget 2022 arising out of the ongoing work of the independent working group examining the issue of defective housing. [46716/21]

2021-09-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason his Department is using the public spending code as an excuse for not directly funding Dublin City Council to develop the site at Oscar Traynor Road as a fully public housing development in the most cost-effective and affordable manner. [46717/21]

2021-09-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason local authorities are not permitted to purchase homes for tenants by social housing support recipients that are put up for sale but are permitted to enter into long-term lease arrangements for these same properties after the social housing support recipient has been evicted on grounds of a vacant possession notice to quit. [46407/21]

2021-09-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason for the long delay in the publication of the State architecture policy. [46408/21]

2021-09-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will address the excessive processing time in many local authorities for housing applications and HAP applications and the impact of these delays on the ability of persons to access social housing support; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46405/21]

2021-09-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason for the early suspension of the Workplace Relations Commission single water utility led talks over the summer; and the reason the next round of talks have been further delayed until October 2021. [46409/21]

2021-09-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he plans to bring forward legislation to give effect to the key recommendations of the Expert Group on Traveller Accommodation with respect to Part 8 and section 183 votes in councils. [46406/21]

2021-09-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if it is possible for new, incomplete estates to be added to the list of unfinished estates exempted from local property tax; and if so what is the application process. [46108/21]

2021-09-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the Land Development Agency will be able to apply for either the cost rental equity loan or the affordable housing fund for the provision of affordable housing. [46679/21]

2021-09-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the criteria that will be used to assess whether an organisation can be designated a cost rental provider under the Affordable Housing Act 2021 and related secondary legislation. [46680/21]

2021-09-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the categories of organisations that will be eligible to apply for the cost rental equity loan and the affordable housing fund (details supplied). [46681/21]

2021-09-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of active rental accommodation scheme tenancies currently in place. [44643/21]

2021-09-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if there is a general prohibition on local authorities purchasing vacant second hand homes and second hand homes occupied by tenants in receipt of social housing support, other than derelict homes purchased under the derelict sites act CPO process and other than one bed and four bed vacant units under the Call for Housing initiative launched in August 2020; when this general prohibition was introduced; and if he will review this policy to allow greater flexibility for local authorities to purchase second hand properties, either tenanted or vacant, as needs arise. [44767/21]

2021-09-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the final proposed shared equity local scheme proposal will be submitted by his Department to the Central Bank; and the precise matter on which his Department is seeking approval from the Central Bank with respect to this scheme. [44768/21]

2021-09-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide a list of all persons and organisation who lobbied him, his predecessors or his officials seeking an exemption from the 20% Part V provision of social and affordable homes for landowners who purchased their land between 2015 and 2021. [44769/21]

2021-09-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of cost rental equity loan, CREL, funded cost rental homes that will be purchased and made available for tenanting in 2021; and the details of the location, unit size and costs of same. [44770/21]

2021-09-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of serviced sites fund, SSF, and affordable housing funding, AHF, affordable purchase homes that will be completed and offered for sale in 2021; and the details of their location, unit size and sale price. [44771/21]

2021-09-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide an update on the social housing programme output to date in 2021; the number of units completed under each category to date; and the publication date for the second and third quarter social housing output report. [44772/21]

2021-09-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the parts of and the way in which the 29 recommendations of the Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government pre-legislative scrutiny report on the general scheme of the Marine Planning and Development Bill are dealt with in the initiated Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021, in tabular form. [44957/21]

2021-09-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the regulations detailing the eligibility and terms and conditions for the affordable purchase and affordable cost rental scheme will be published; and the interim eligibility criteria that are currently in place for affordable rental and purchase homes that will come on stream in advance of the publication of the final regulations. [44958/21]

2021-09-09

PQ

Asked Environment

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the steps his Department is taking to ensure that social housing funded under section 38 of the Health Act 2004 can access energy efficient retrofitting schemes in the future. [41608/21]

2021-09-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his attention has been drawn to the geo-mapping work of vacant homes currently underway in local authorities; if his Department is collating this information centrally; and if not, if he will consider doing so. [41964/21]

2021-09-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 326 of 13 July 2021, in relation to HAP eligibility and maintenance payments the reason policy does not provide for the deduction of regular outgoings such as maintenance; and if his attention has been drawn to the fact that in some cases maintenance payments are being assessed as income for both the payer and the payee in cases in which both are in receipt of HAP. [42011/21]

2021-09-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when a person (details supplied) will receive a payment under the turf cutting compensation scheme for 2021. [42240/21]

2021-07-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason for the long delay in the publication of the Review Into Certain Planning Matters in Respect of Donegal County Council by a person (details supplied); and the date for the publication of the report. [39137/21]

2021-07-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if there is consideration of home extensions which significantly increase the value of the property in calculating the clawback in cases in which a person who purchased their home via the current incremental purchase scheme opts to sell the property before the 20 year clawback period. [39185/21]

2021-07-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the date on which sections 6 and 19 of the Residential Tenancies (No 2) Act 2021 was commenced; and if this is the date from which rent reviews within rent pressure zone are linked to the harmonised indices of consumer prices. [39219/21]

2021-07-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated full year pay cost of employing four senior building surveyors, six executive building surveyors and four assistant building surveyors in tabular form. [39282/21]

2021-07-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the Traveller accommodation spend for 2021 to date, by local authority in tabular form. [39519/21]

2021-07-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount of funding that has been allocated and spent to date for 2021 on the refurbishment of local authority flat complexes; the flat complexes and local authorities they are in; and the work which was undertaken or has commenced in each complex. [39520/21]

2021-07-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the Call for Housing; the number of properties that have been offered; and the number of properties that have been acquired. [39521/21]

2021-07-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of homes brought into use to date in 2021 via the repair and lease scheme. [39522/21]

2021-07-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of homes brought into use to date in 2021 via the buy and renew scheme. [39523/21]

2021-07-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of homes acquired via the Housing Agency to date in 2021; and the average cost of each unit. [39524/21]

2021-07-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the implementation of each of the 32 recommendations of the Report of the Expert Group on Traveller Accommodation. [39525/21]

2021-07-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of cost rental projects approved by cost rental equity loan; and the number of these homes that will be tenanted in 2021, by local authority and approved housing body. [39526/21]

2021-07-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the serviced sites fund pipeline for 2021 and 2022. [39527/21]

2021-07-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount which has been drawn down from the Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund to date in 2021, by local authority in tabular form. [39528/21]

2021-07-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of Housing First tenancies that have been created in 2021 to date; and the target for the remainder of the year. [39530/21]

2021-07-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of Rebuilding Ireland home loans applied for, approved and drawn down each month to date in 2021, by local authority; and the average amount of each approval and each drawdown. [39540/21]

2021-07-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the European Court of Justice action against the State for breach of the urban wastewater treatment directive. [39546/21]

2021-07-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount of funding allocated each year via grant aid for lead pipe replacement for domestic use since grant funding was introduced; the number of households that have accessed grant aid each year; and the amount of funding drawn down each year in tabular form. [39548/21]

2021-07-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the time limited review of the defective block remediation scheme; and the progress to date on issues including covering costs of accommodation, engineering fees and non-construction items in addition to the broader issues of further access to the scheme in circumstances in which more defects arise and the issue of 100% redress. [40767/21]

2021-07-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the forthcoming State architecture policy; the reason for its delay; and if he will consult the Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage before the final policy is published. [40768/21]

2021-07-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the review of the National Parks and Wildlife Service. [40769/21]

2021-07-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the work of the working group on defective homes; the reason for the delay in the group meeting the Programme for Government target of reporting within a year of Government formation; if he will address criticisms from members of the group that the working group's independence is being interfered with by Departmental officials; when he expects the work of this group to be concluded; and if some form of redress scheme will be included in Budget 2022 for home owners affected by Celtic tiger building defects. [40770/21]

2021-07-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average all-in development cost to the Exchequer for one-, two-, three- and four-bedroom social houses and one-, two- and three-bedroom social apartments delivered through the social housing investment programme in the past 12 months. [38827/21]

2021-07-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average cost to the Exchequer of a social home delivered through the buy and renew scheme in the past 12 months. [38828/21]

2021-07-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average cost to the Exchequer of a social home delivered through the housing agency’s rolling €70 million vacant homes acquisition fund in the past 12 months. [38829/21]

2021-07-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average cost to the Exchequer of a new traveller specific accommodation unit delivered from the Travellers accommodation budget in the past 24 months.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38830/21]

2021-07-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total approved borrowing by AHBs for the delivery of social housing in 2020 and 2021; the number of social homes delivered with that borrowing in 2020; and the target number to be delivered in 2022. [38831/21]

2021-07-14

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of land purchases by local authorities that have been approved by his Department in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021; if he will provide a list of these purchases including location and hectarage; and the financing provided to each local authority for each land purchase. [38401/21]

2021-07-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if court ordered maintenance payments are included in the income assessment for social housing and HAP eligibility. [37242/21]

2021-07-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of long-term lease and Part V lease approvals granted to date in 2021; the number of units in each approval; the local authority in which each approval was granted; the average annual cost of the lease in each development; and the average length of the lease in each development. [37991/21]

2021-07-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the four Dublin local authorities have had the inspections of private rental properties disrupted by Covid-19 restrictions; if so, the details of the extent of this disruption; and if his Department has provided guidance or support with respect to inspection of private rental properties. [37023/21]

2021-07-08

VOTE

Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages · 2 divisions

✓ voted for the motion motion passed · 101–8
✓ voted to add an amendment to the bill motion failed · 40–70

2021-07-06

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the requirements his Department has placed on local authorities (details supplied) with respect to the advancement of the listed developments. [36380/21]

2021-06-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the expenditure in 2020 on payment and availability agreement payments to approved housing bodies; the number of tenancies covered by these agreements; the current expenditure allocation for 2021 on payment and availability agreements to approved housing bodies; the expected number of tenancies this expenditure will cover; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34388/21]

2021-06-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the costs approved for the delivery of social housing through both bundle 1 and bundle 2 of the public private partnership projects; the monthly and annual payments to each consortia involved in bundle 1 and bundle 2; the number of years over which these payments will be made; the breakdown of these payments by construction, maintenance and other costs; and the details of the public sector benchmarking exercise that was used to evaluate applications for both bundles in tabular form. [34389/21]

2021-06-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the systems in place to ensure that building products such as blocks are manufactured to appropriate standards; the systems in place to ensure that materials from quarries used in building products such as blocks are appropriate for such purposes and are being secured from licensed quarries; the level of inspections by building control authorities in both matters; if such inspections are proactive to identify problems before they become apparent or reactive in response to complaints; the details of the relevant legislation, statutory instruments, circulars and EU directives; and if he will provide links or copies of same. [34390/21]

2021-06-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the financial contribution scheme for older persons is in operation in the four local authority areas in Dublin; and the qualifying criteria for the scheme. [34391/21]

2021-06-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of social homes completed and the number of social homes in the pipeline availing of the one-stage approval process; and the number of those delivered to date and in the pipeline to date that have availed of the one-stage process since the threshold was increased. [34465/21]

2021-06-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of properties offered, purchased and tenanted under the Minister's call for housing in August 2020. [34466/21]

2021-06-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the Q1 and Q2 social housing pipeline reports will be published. [34467/21]

2021-06-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will report on staff shortages in the fire service; the number of hours that fire engines were out of service due to staff shortages in the fire service in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34736/21]

2021-06-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on the latest data from the Residential Tenancies Board that indicated almost 4,000 rent warning letters and 1,100 notices to quit have been issued to tenants since the introduction of the Residential Tenancies and Valuation Act 2020. [34152/21]

2021-06-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his target of 33,000 new home completions a year will not be met until 2025. [34153/21]

2021-06-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the schedule of stock condition surveys of local authority properties detailing which developments in which local authorities will be surveyed in 2021 and 2022. [33762/21]

2021-06-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the proposal to transfer local authority water services staff to Irish Water and the creation of a single water utility for the State. [33761/21]

2021-06-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on the interim report on mortality in the single homeless population 2020 published in June 2021. [33760/21]

2021-06-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will commit to review Part M of the building regulations to ensure that all new social housing is fully accessible for wheelchair users to live as distinct from visit the homes. [33764/21]

2021-06-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the work of the independent working group to examine defective housing including its terms of reference; the programme of work; and if he expects the group to meet the Programme for Government commitment to publish a report within a year of the Government being formed. [33763/21]

2021-06-23

PQ

Asked Finance

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Finance the way in which the borrowing and spending by approved housing bodies for the delivery of social housing assisted through the CALF scheme and affordable cost rental housing assisted through the CREL scheme are treated in the Government accounts with particular respect to the impact on the spending and borrowing limits set out under the terms of the EU fiscal rules and periodic economic statements. [33773/21]

2021-06-23

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of new social homes to be delivered from the €1,078,559 of capital expenditure allocated to local authorities in Vote 34 of budget 2021. [33765/21]

2021-06-23

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the expected contribution by local authorities from their own resources in 2021 for the delivery of the new social homes funded from the €1,078,559 of capital expenditure allocated to local authorities in Vote 34 of budget 2021. [33766/21]

2021-06-23

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of new social homes to be delivered from the €96,000,000 of capital expenditure allocated to the capital assistance scheme in Vote 34 budget 2021. [33767/21]

2021-06-23

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of homes to be transferred to social housing from the €23,000 of capital expenditure allocated to the mortgage-to-rent scheme allocated in Vote 34 in budget 2021. [33768/21]

2021-06-23

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of new social homes to be delivered from the €220,350 of capital expenditure allocated to the capital advance leasing facility in Vote 34 budget 2021. [33769/21]

2021-06-23

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of new Traveller specific homes to be delivered from the €15,500 of capital expenditure allocated to the Traveller accommodation budget line in Vote 34 budget 2021. [33770/21]

2021-06-23

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of new social homes to be delivered from the €11,000 of capital expenditure allocated to the repair and leasing scheme in Vote 34 budget 2021. [33771/21]

2021-06-23

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of affordable purchase homes to be delivered from the €110,000 capital expenditure allocated to the affordable purchase scheme in Vote 34 in budget 2021. [33772/21]

2021-06-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the expenditure on HAP for 2020 and to date in 2021; and the projected increase in funding for 2022 and 2023. [32888/21]

2021-06-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the expenditure on the social housing current expenditure programme for 2020 and to date in 2021; and the projected increase in funding for 2022 and 2023. [32889/21]

2021-06-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the expenditure on RAS for 2020 and to date in 2021; and the projected increase in funding for 2022 and 2023. [32890/21]

2021-06-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the allocation and drawdown of housing adaptation grants in 2020 and to date in 2021; and the projected increase in funding for 2022 and 2023. [32891/21]

2021-06-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the administrative costs of the National Parks and Wildlife Service head office in 2020. [32892/21]

2021-06-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of active rental accommodation scheme tenancies currently in place. [32893/21]

2021-06-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount allocated to each local authority for rental property inspections to date in 2021; and the projected increase in funding for this purpose for 2022 and 2023. [32894/21]

2021-06-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the current and capital costs involved with each action item in the Interim Climate Action Plan under his Department’s responsibility. [32699/21]

2021-06-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the current and capital funding allocated to the National Biodiversity Data Centre. [32706/21]

2021-06-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the local authority decarbonisation zones; and the list of zones selected. [30814/21]

2021-06-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of unsold affordable homes being used for social housing by local authority; the annual cost of servicing the loans on these properties by each local authority; the cost to date of servicing these loans by local authority; the estimated cost to the Exchequer of these properties; and his plans to assist local authorities meet these debt obligations in tabular form. [30950/21]

2021-06-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the working group on rural planning guidelines in his Department; and when revised guidance on the issue of rural planning will be provided to local authorities that are currently revising their development plans. [31961/21]

2021-05-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the May 2021 Regulation of Commercial Institutional Investment in Housing guidelines for Planning Authorities only apply to houses and duplexes in low density developments; if so, the level at which the density is set; if houses and duplexes in high density densities will be covered by these guidelines; and the way units of accommodation will be treated in cases in which houses, duplexes and apartments are all part of the one physical structure. [28441/21]

2021-05-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the supports his Department is providing to Dublin City Council and South Dublin County Council in its master planning of the Ballymount industrial estate site between the Red Cow and Bluebell. [27731/21]

2021-05-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide statistical information (details supplied) in tabular form. [27732/21]

2021-05-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if statistical information in relation to the allocation of funding will be provided (details supplied). [27734/21]

2021-05-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 705 of 21 April 2021, the estimated cost of upgrading all developer provided water infrastructure in the 566 residential developments. [27735/21]

2021-05-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will review the MICA and pyrite remediation schemes for counties Donegal and Mayo given the difficulty applicants to those schemes are experiencing. [27942/21]

2021-05-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will review the issues in relation to local authorities acquiring construction materials from companies that previously provided materials with MICA. [27943/21]

2021-05-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of properties that have been acquired that were once listed on a website (details supplied) and other short-term letting websites since July 2020 as reported in an article. [28355/21]

2021-05-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the work of the Departmental senior officials' group that was set up to examine further regulation for short-term letting platforms as reported in an article (details supplied). [28356/21]

2021-05-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the housing need and demand assessment; and the household and new home completion targets for each local authority for the new county development plan process in tabular form. [26863/21]

2021-05-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the price offered by NAMA to Dublin City Council and his Department for the purchase of land in the Poolbeg SDZ for the delivery of affordable homes; the discount on market price offered by NAMA in relation to same; and the reason his Department refused to provide funding to Dublin City Council to purchase the land. [26864/21]

2021-05-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of live long-term leases for the most recent date available by lease type that is, mortgage to rent, repair and lease, standard long-term lease, enhanced long-term lease, Part V lease and so on; and the total estimated cost of these leases in 2021 for each category of lease, in tabular form. [25357/21]

2021-05-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total number of long-term leases active in each year since long-term leasing was introduced in 2009 to 2020, by lease type and location, and by local authority area; and the annual cost of each lease type for each year, in tabular form. [25358/21]

2021-05-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the property price caps for the shared equity loan scheme; and the details of the methodology and data used in setting these price caps. [25359/21]

2021-05-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the affordable cost rental units funded under the cost rental equity loan scheme in 2021; and the location, approved housing body provider, purchase cost, cost rental equity loan contribution and expected entry level rent for each scheme, in tabular form. [25360/21]

2021-05-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of orders issued under section 10 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1992 during each of the past five years by specific local authority, public authority and type of order issued, respectively. [24421/21]

2021-05-06

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is increasing the serviced sites funds allocation for a site (details supplied) to €100,000 per unit; and if his Department has had discussions with Dublin City Council, the European Investment Bank and the Housing Finance Agency to lengthen the maturity of the loans to ensure the entry level rents are below €900 for the cost rental apartments. [23321/21]

2021-05-06

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if discussion is taking place or has taken place involving his Department on the acquisition of a site by the Land Development Agency (details supplied). [23322/21]

2021-05-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on whether costs of between €18,000 and €28,000 per unit per year for 25-year long-term leases represent value for money for the taxpayer in view of the rising cost of long-term leasing and Part V long-term leasing and given that building or buying social homes by local authorities and approved housing bodies is cheaper and provides tenants with lifetime security of tenure. [23276/21]

2021-05-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the steps he plans to take to bring down the all-in cost of residential development in order to make homes more affordable for working persons in view of the 2020 and 2021 reports by an organisation (details supplied) on the real cost of house and apartment delivery. [22934/21]

2021-05-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if a commitment will be made not to extend the strategic housing development planning process and to allow for a return to a two stage planning process with the local authorities as the primary planning authority and An Bord Pleanála providing for an appropriate appeals mechanism. [22937/21]

2021-05-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans to reverse the sharp increase in single person homelessness evidenced in recent months. [22935/21]

2021-05-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans to ensure that all 566 outstanding developer-provided water infrastructure projects in residential developments across the State are brought in charge; the estimated cost of funding these works to bring them up to taking in charge standard; and the timeframe within which his Department will provide this funding. [22938/21]

2021-05-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the implementation of the recommendations of the expert group on Traveller accommodation and in particular its proposals regarding changes to the Part 8 planning and section 183 land transfer processes in local authorities. [22936/21]

2021-05-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on the recent report by the European Committee of Social Rights published in April 2021 (details supplied); and the steps he plans to take to resolve the issues at the heart of the collective complaint. [22939/21]

2021-04-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the report into the deaths of persons experiencing homelessness. [21321/21]

2021-04-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the spend to date by local authorities of the Traveller accommodation budget; and the breakdown of this spend on Covid-19 related work, refurbishment of existing work and new Traveller specific accommodation. [21322/21]

2021-04-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the funding details approved by his Department for a social housing lease agreement between an organisation (details supplied) for 40 units of accommodation at a location; the length of time of the lease agreement; the average annual cost of the lease at this location; and if he will provide all other available information. [21539/21]

2021-04-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of Rebuilding Ireland home loan applications submitted in the first quarter of 2021; the number of applications accepted; the number approved; the number of mortgage drawdowns; the value of the applications in each category in the first quarter of 2021; the breakdown for each local authority area; and the breakdown as a total for the State under each heading. [21555/21]

2021-04-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of long-term lease and Part V lease approvals granted to date in 2021; the number of units in each approval; the local authority in which each approval was granted; the average annual cost of the lease in each development; and the average length of the lease in each development. [21556/21]

2021-04-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of homelessness task force and housing delivery task force meetings that have taken place in the past six months; and if the minutes from these meetings will be released. [21557/21]

2021-04-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if a list of all organisations and persons he has consulted in preparation of his Housing for All plan will be provided; when these consultations took place; the length of time the consultation meetings were held for; and if the minutes or notes from these meetings will be published. [21558/21]

2021-04-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the draft national architecture policy; when the next phase of the consultation will take place; when he will engage with the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage on the matter; and when the plan will be finalised and published. [21559/21]

2021-04-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number and value of Rebuilding Ireland home loans that were applied for, approved and drawn down in the first quarter of 2021. [21570/21]

2021-04-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average Rebuilding Ireland home loan amount that was drawn down in Dublin and outside of Dublin in the first quarter of 2021. [21571/21]

2021-04-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of homes brought into use in quarter 1 of 2021 via the repair and lease scheme. [21575/21]

2021-04-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of homes brought into use in quarter 1 of 2021 via the buy and renew scheme. [21576/21]

2021-04-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of homes acquired via the Housing Agency in quarter 1 of 2021; and the average cost of each unit. [21577/21]

2021-04-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund funding that has been drawn down by local authority to date in 2021, in tabular form. [21579/21]

2021-04-27

VOTE

General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) · 4 divisions

✓ voted to add an amendment to the bill motion failed · 5–8
✓ voted to add an amendment to the bill motion failed · 5–8
✓ voted to add an amendment to the bill motion failed · 5–8
✓ voted to add an amendment to the bill motion failed · 5–8

2021-04-21

PQ

Asked Finance

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Finance if it is possible to reduce VAT or zero rate VAT on new build apartments, on new build apartments within certain price ranges and and on new build apartments sold to certain categories of purchasers, that is, first-time buyers, local authorities or approved housing bodies. [19127/21]

2021-04-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will commission the Housing Agency to conduct a study into the housing needs of persons who have experienced a relationship breakdown and subsequently lost their family home but due to income and prior home ownership are not eligible for social housing or for any of the affordable or private purchase first-time buyer supports. [18537/21]

2021-04-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of developer provided infrastructure projects nationwide that fall outside the scope of circular PL5/14 of November 2014 and the agreed memoranda of understanding in terms of the transfer of water services infrastructure assets within the estates to Irish Water by local authority area in tabular form. [18777/21]

2021-04-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount that has been allocated to date under the first round of Multi-annual Developer Provided Water Services Infrastructure Resolution Programme by local authority area in tabular form. [18778/21]

2021-04-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount that has been drawn down to date under the first round of Multi-annual Developer Provided Water Services Infrastructure Resolution Programme by local authority area in tabular form. [18779/21]

2021-04-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the housing supply targets for all local authorities; the context of the current review of the county development plans and the National Planning Framework in tabular form. [18939/21]

2021-04-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the funding mechanism that was provided by his Department to deliver social housing at an address (details supplied) in County Kildare; the amount of funding that was provided; if the funding provided was 100% of the cost of delivering the units; if not, if it was additional financing provided from another source that is, the Housing Finance Agency, a private bank, and so on; to whom this funding was provided; the repayment terms of the funding; when is it due to be paid; and the restrictions on the sale of these properties to the tenants were included as part of the conditions of the funding. [20684/21]

2021-04-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the progress made on strengthening the enforcement of the vacant site levy; if he has considered or is considering the introduction of a site value tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20717/21]

2021-04-01

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on the report issued by the European Committee on Social Rights in March 2021 which stated that the Government is still in breach of article 16 of the European Convention of Human Rights with respect to local authority tenants and Traveller accommodation; the additional actions he plans to take to address this breach of the international human rights obligations of the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17669/21]

2021-03-31

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on the failure of Irish Water to honour a WRC agreement on the use of private contractors for the find and first-fix scheme; his plans for same; and the impact the breach of a WRC agreement will have on his July 2021 deadline for the single utility negotiations. [16420/21]

2021-03-31

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total allocation of funding for 2021 to address mica block and pyrite in counties Donegal, Mayo and Limerick; the number of homes expected to be remediated from the funding in each county; if the funding will be used to address pyrite in other counties; and the way in which it is planned to fund the remediation of over 1,000 council properties affected by mica block in County Donegal. [16426/21]

2021-03-31

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the Land Development Agency development on the Devoy Barracks site, Naas, County Kildare; the number of units proposed; the tenure mix; the development partners; and the timeline for planning, commencement and completion. [17051/21]

2021-03-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the dedicated email addresses for Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas to contact his Department and bodies under its aegis as outlined in circular 25/2016. [16008/21]

2021-03-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average all-in cost of turnkey social housing units approved in 2019 and 2020 by local authority in tabular form. [16158/21]

2021-03-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average all-in cost of SHIP social housing units approved in 2019 and 2020 by local authority in tabular form. [16159/21]

2021-03-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average all-in cost of Part V social housing units approved in 2019 and 2020 by local authority in tabular form. [16160/21]

2021-03-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the criteria and methodology used to determine the seven proposed price caps for the shared equity loan scheme. [14042/21]

2021-03-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the research used by his officials in the design of the shared equity loan scheme; and if he will publish the research. [14043/21]

2021-03-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his Department conducted an impact analysis of the proposed shared equity loan scheme on house and apartment prices; and if he will publish such research. [14044/21]

2021-03-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of affordable homes to purchase funded via the serviced sites fund that he expects to be completed in each of the years 2021 to 2025; and the indicative prices for these properties exclusive of the service sites fund contribution. [14045/21]

2021-03-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the breakdown of the 5,073 new build social houses delivered in 2020 by category (details supplied). [14202/21]

2021-03-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the Land Development Agency has considered introducing co-living accommodation into any of its proposed developments; and if this consideration has been abandoned in view of the partial ban on co-living introduced in December 2020. [14355/21]

2021-03-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the Land Development Agency development on the Meath Hospital site, Dublin 8; the number of units proposed; the tenure mix; the development partners; and the timeline for planning, commencement and completion. [14356/21]

2021-03-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the Land Development Agency discussed the establishment of a high level structure bringing together land owners engaging with the Agency such as the HSE and councils to address delays in advancing residential development on specified sites; and if discussion in June 2019 by the board of the Agency in relation to establishing such a structure to be chaired by the Taoiseach, was advanced and proposed to the Department of the Taoiseach. [14357/21]

2021-03-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the discussions taking place between his Department and the Land Development Agency on the delivery of affordable purchase homes on non-local authority sites; if the serviced sites fund will be extended to non-local Government sites; and if another form of equity stake including a Land Development Agency equity stake is being considered in order to provide homes at a discount of full development costs. [14358/21]

2021-03-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if there is a technical working group within his Department assessing the methodology for transfer of State lands to the Land Development Agency; if so, when the working group was established; the persons on the group; the number of meetings it has held; and the date of each meeting. [14373/21]

2021-03-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the working group on latent defects; the membership of the group; the terms of reference of same; the number of meetings held to date; if he expects the group to conclude its work by June 2021; and if he expects its recommendations to inform measures to support homeowners living with latent defects in budget 2022. [15668/21]

2021-03-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the implementation of the recommendations of the Expert Group on Traveller Accommodation providing a specific update on each recommendation; and if he plans to bring forward legislation to address the issues of Part 8 planning applications and section 183 land disposals as recommended by the group. [15669/21]

2021-03-11

VOTE

Housing Shared Equity Loan Scheme · 2 divisions

✗ voted against the motion the motion motion passed · 82–56
✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion passed · 83–52

2021-03-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the working group on rural planning guidelines in his Department; and when revised guidance on the issue of rural planning will be provided to local authorities that are revising their development plans. [12475/21]

2021-03-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he plans to publish the report by his Department into allegations of planning irregularities in County Donegal. [12476/21]

2021-03-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 310 of 24 February 2021, the reason the response did not include an update on the involvement of the Land Development Agency in the Colbert Lands, Limerick and Strand Road, Galway; if the involvement of the Agency in these sites will be clarified; the way in which it differs to its involvement in the nine sites list in the response; and if the Agency plans to seek SDZ designation for either or both of these sites subsequent to the passing of the Land Development Agency Bill 2021. [12606/21]

2021-03-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the tenure breakdown for each of the nine sites the Land Development Agency, LDA, is currently working on; and the percentage of proposed homes to be social rental, affordable cost rental, affordable purchase and open market sale in tabular form. [13313/21]

2021-03-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the breakdown by local authority of long term leasing and long term leased Part V approvals for 2018, 2019 and 2020; the annual cost of each lease; the lease review period in each case; the length of each lease; and if the property remains in private ownership at the end of the lease term or ownership transfers to the local authority or AHB, in tabular form. [13314/21]

2021-03-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the financing model for the cost rental scheme currently being piloted by his Department includes 60% loan finance from the Housing Finance Agency or private banks, 30% equity contributed by the State through the cost rental equity loan scheme and 10% contribution from the approved housing body provider; and if this 10% contribution from the provider or approved housing body will take the form of cash or equity. [13338/21]

2021-03-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the way in which the 30% cost rental equity loan will be calculated in future years when the approved housing body reaches the point of having to repay the equity; if it will be passed on the open market value of the property or some other calculation; if there will be an interest charge on the equity loan; if so, the interest; and if it will change over time. [13339/21]

2021-03-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the register for architectural technicians. [13462/21]

2021-03-04

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the Land Development Agency has yet to acquire any sites on which it is currently working or if all the projects are currently partnerships between the Agency and the relevant landowner. [12322/21]

2021-03-03

PQ

Asked Environment

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of community retrofit grant, formerly better energy communities recipients, who installed photovoltaic solar panels by type of recipient that is business, community group, energy poor, non-energy poor and local authority housing in each of the years 2018 to 2020. [11577/21]

2021-03-03

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount of money requested by each local authority under the voids programme in 2020; the number of units proposed to be refurbished in each local authority; the amount allocated to each local authority from this fund in 2020; and the number of units to be refurbished in each local authority in tabular form. [11161/21]

2021-02-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of social houses delivered through the buy and renew scheme, the repair and leasing scheme and the Housing Agency €70 million rolling fund since these schemes were introduced to the most recent date for which data is available; the breakdown by year and by local authority; and the cost of each scheme to date and in each year these schemes were in operation. [10792/21]

2021-02-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if information (details supplied) will be provided in relation to the Land Development Agency. [9421/21]

2021-02-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the Land Development Agency; the number of development sites in which the Land Development Agency has involvement; the locations, size, partners and number of residential units projected for each site; the projected cost of each development; the projected level of agency financing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9821/21]

2021-02-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total value of the capital loan subsidy scheme, CLSS, the capital advance leasing facility, CALF, and other loans currently issued to each approved housing body; the dates on which these loans start to fall due; and his plans with respect to these loans, that is if he plans to have the loans repaid, waived or turned into equity in the respective properties in tabular form. [10348/21]

2021-02-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the details of the 390 cost rental units announced on 8 February 2021; the location of the units; the typologies of the units; the rent to be charged on the units; if these units are in turnkey developments that were already in the respective approved housing bodies social housing pipeline; and if not, if they are additional units to that pipeline. [7954/21]

2021-02-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the timeline for the completion of the various phases of the development with respect to the Land Development Agency and Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council development in Shanganagh, Shankill, County Dublin; the commencement date for the development; the expected sales price of the affordable purchase units; the total cost of the development; the types of finance being accessed by the LDA to undertake the development; and if further information which he deems relevant will be provided. [7964/21]

2021-02-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the Land Development Agency has completed an assessment of the suitability of the State-owned site at Thornton Hall, Kilsallaghan, County Dublin for housing; if so, if it will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8469/21]

2021-02-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide details of his Department's review of siting and size conditions for rooftop solar panels on homes and its review of exemptions for educational and community buildings as part of the current development of interim planning regulations; the details on the stated need to consider environmental assessment reporting before finalisation; when the interim planning regulations will be submitted to the Houses of the Oireachtas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7684/21]

2021-02-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he plans to legislate to encourage the uptake of life cycle assessment and-or to promote such assessments through green public procurement in future public housing developments. [7689/21]

2021-02-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will commission the Housing Agency or another appropriate body to undertake a comparative study of housing and apartment construction and professional fee costs in the public and private sector to determine the reason for the recent significant increase in costs in a number of social housing tenders in Dublin City Council. [6510/21]

2021-02-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on the policy of Dublin City Council and the Dublin Regional Homeless Executive of removing tents being used by persons sleeping rough in Dublin City and when removing these tents to remove and destroy the person belongings of the persons sleeping rough; and if he will request Dublin City Council to discontinue this practice. [6511/21]

2021-02-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on the recent significant rise in tender prices for social housing developments in Dublin City Council; and if he will examine the use of multi-annual framework agreements and breaking up larger development sites into tenders for enabling works and sub-lots of social housing within the social housing developments to increase competition and ensure value for money for the taxpayer in the delivery of social housing. [6512/21]

2021-02-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the creation of the single utility for water services and the drafting of a White Paper on the future of the utilities' SLA with local authorities including the Government's intentions on whether Irish Water will become a non-commercial semi-State company and whether the Government plans to hold a referendum on the public ownership of water services. [6541/21]

2021-02-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason for the delay in issuing the updated county development plan guidance and the methodology for the housing demand needs assessment to local authorities; his views on whether this delay will have a negative impact on those local authorities that are at an advanced stage in their development plan review; and when both the plan guidelines and the housing demand needs assessment methodology will be complete and issued to local authorities. [6942/21]

2021-02-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount spent by his Department in responding to the collective complaint brought to the European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg regarding conditions in local authority properties; and the breakdown of those costs by type including legal fees, communications, research and any other category that may be relevant. [7133/21]

2021-02-04

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he plans to extend the strategic housing development planning process deadline beyond its current expiry date of February 2022; and the preparations he has put in place to restore or reform the planning process post-February 2022. [6303/21]

2021-02-04

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of social housing leases funded through his Department to investors availing of the international investment programme; and the annual cost of these leases for each year since such leases commenced. [6304/21]

2021-02-04

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the implementation of the nZEB regulations for residential developments in social and private housing; and the engagement he has had with the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to ensure full compliance with these important regulations. [6305/21]

2021-02-03

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the functions of the built environment advisory unit within his Department; the number of staff; the role of each; the work the unit undertakes with regard to the promotion of building standards including informing the building industry and building control authorities of the current building regulations and the updating of those regulations; if the unit has functions or powers to inspect construction sites; and if so, the basis and purpose. [5433/21]

2021-02-03

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on the failure of successive Governments to place the construction industry register on a statutory footing; his further views on whether this failure affects the strength of the 2014 building control reforms; and if a commitment will be given to introducing the Bill at second stage in 2021. [5434/21]

2021-02-03

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the budget allocation to each local authority for their building control functions in each of the years 2013 to 2020 and to date in 2021; the number of staff employed in each local authority funded through this budget allocation; and the mechanisms in place within his Department to ensure that building control authorities are adequately resourced, trained and conducting onsite inspections to fulfil both the spirit and the letter of the 2014 building control reforms in tabular form. [5435/21]

2021-02-03

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the move towards the creation of a single water utility; and if legislation will be forthcoming from his Department in 2021 on this matter. [5681/21]

2021-02-03

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the last national conditions survey of local authority social housing stock took place; the findings of the survey; the action taken since to address the findings of the survey; and when the next survey is due. [5684/21]

2021-02-03

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans to facilitate greater tenant participation in community development, empowerment and estate management within local authority housing estates. [5686/21]

2021-01-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the steps he is taking to address the issues of embedded carbon construction through revisions to building regulations, planning laws and in social and affordable housing developments funded by his Department; and if he has engaged with an organisation (details supplied) on the issue of embedded carbon in construction. [4724/21]

2021-01-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the 35 social housing projects that have used the one stage approval process; the location of these projects; the number of units in each project; and the cost of each project, in tabular form. [4800/21]

2021-01-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of social housing projects that have accessed the one stage approval process since the cap was increased to €6 million that would otherwise have accessed that process; and the number of units of accommodation in these projects. [4801/21]

2021-01-27

PQ

Asked Finance

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Finance the status of the work of Home Building Finance Ireland; the number of loans offered; the size of the loans; the recipients of the loans; the number of housing units to be delivered by each loan; the number of units commenced to date; the number of units completed to date; and the projected commencement and completion dates for all housing units funded by Home Building Finance Ireland. [3576/21]

2021-01-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average construction and all-in development cost of social housing tender approvals for local authorities (details supplied) in each of the years 2017 to 2020; and the items included in the construction costs and the non-construction costs in tabular form. [3569/21]

2021-01-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the new serviced sites fund limit per unit of accommodation as agreed in December 2020. [3570/21]

2021-01-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the delivery of social and affordable housing in Poolbeg strategic development zone, SDZ; his views on whether the failure of his Department to purchase land within the SDZ will make the delivery of these homes more difficult or more expensive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3571/21]

2021-01-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the programme for Government commitment to establish a commission on housing; the proposed members of the commission; the terms of reference of the commission; the duration of same; the engagement of the commission with Dáil Éireann; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3572/21]

2021-01-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the report he commissioned into the deaths of persons experiencing homelessness; when the report will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3573/21]

2021-01-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his attention has been drawn to the problem of private sector mortgage-to-rent providers outbidding not-for-profit mortgage-to-rent providers in the acquisition of homes from mortgage holders in mortgage distress with the consequence of increasing the cost to the State of these properties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3574/21]

2021-01-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the serviced sites fund allocation for a social and affordable housing project (details supplied) in Dublin 8; and the restructuring of the EIB loan finance being discussed or that has been agreed by his Department with Dublin City Council. [3575/21]

2021-01-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if Dublin City Council issues loans under the shared ownership scheme of 2003 to 2010 greater than the amounts permitted both in terms of the overall lending caps and the loan to income limits; if this matter was ever examined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3628/21]

2021-01-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason the Dublin Docklands Development Authority, DDDA, offered affordable homes, under the 2003 to 2010 shared ownership scheme, at a more advantageous price and interest rate than Dublin City Council. [3629/21]

2021-01-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason the shared ownership scheme from 2003 to 2010 had an increasing interest charge on the shared equity rent repayment that left the purchaser with a larger level of monthly mortgage repayment compared with a standard mortgage. [3630/21]

2021-01-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if it will be ensured that a report on all inspections of homeless emergency accommodation, funded by his Department, are published and that his Department will publish its own annual report on such inspections. [3693/21]

2021-01-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of housing first tenancies delivered in 2020; and the target number of housing first tenancies for 2021. [3993/21]

2021-01-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he has engaged with the Minister for Health to determine a scheme to encourage families with vacant properties tied into the fair deal scheme to rent those properties into the private rental or social rental sector; and if not, if he will give a commitment to do so in view of the thousands of vacant fair deal homes across the State. [4410/21]

2021-01-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will extend the mortgage offer period in the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme from six to 12 months in light of the difficulties many buyers are having in pursuing a home purchase in light of the ongoing Covid-19 restrictions. [4412/21]

2021-01-27

PQ

Asked Health

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Health if he has engaged with the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to determine a scheme to encourage families with vacant properties tied into the fair deal scheme to rent those properties into the private rental or social rental sector; and if not, if he will give a commitment to do so in view of the thousands of vacant fair deal homes across the State. [4411/21]

2021-01-21

PQ

Asked Finance

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Finance if the banking section of his Department is currently engaging with the Department of Housing, Heritage and Local Government and the banking sector on the issue of the proposed €75 million shared equity loan scheme; if so, the nature, frequency and content of these engagements; if additional funding for the scheme from private banks is being sought; if so, the rates of interest being discussed; and the involvement the banks will have in the administration of the shared equity loan scheme. [3362/21]

2021-01-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average construction and all-in development costs for one-, two-, three- and four-bedroom social houses and one-, two- and three-bedroom social housing apartments delivered under the social housing capital investment programme, SHIP, in the past 12 months as distinct from the departmental expenditure ceilings for such units which was provided in an earlier reply, in tabular form. [2978/21]

2021-01-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average construction and all-in development costs for one-, two-, three- and four-bedroom social houses and one-, two- and three-bedroom social housing apartments approved under the SHIP in the past 12 months as distinct from the Departmental expenditure ceilings for such units which was provided in an earlier reply, in tabular form. [2979/21]

2021-01-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing; Local Government and Heritage if exceptional needs social welfare payments are not taken into account when determining social housing eligibility when the social housing need assessment threshold is carried out; if this means that the pandemic unemployment payment from March to August 2020 is also not taken into account for the same purposes as during that time PUP was deemed to be an exceptional needs payment. [3113/21]

2021-01-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his Department is currently engaging with the Department of Finance, the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the banking sector on the issue of the proposed €75 million shared equity loan scheme; the nature, frequency and content of these engagements; if additional funding for the scheme from private banks is being sought; if so, the rates of interest being discussed; and the involvement the banks will have in the administration of the shared equity loan scheme. [3364/21]

2021-01-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his position in respect of the opposition of the planning regulator to an out-of-town shopping centre in County Cork as set out in a letter to Cork County Council in December 2020; and if the letter will be published on the website of his Department. [2299/21]

2021-01-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the functions of the National Building Control Office; the number of staff assigned to same; the division of responsibilities for staff; and if any other relevant information will be provided. [2715/21]

2021-01-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of building control officers in each local authority; the number of same represented as full-time equivalents; the number of inspections of residential homes under construction in numbers and as a percentage of the overall number of residential units in that administrative area; and the cost of the building control function in each local authority area in each of the years 2014 to 2020 and to date 2021, in tabular form. [2716/21]

2021-01-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the construction industry register; the status of legislation to place the register on a statutory footing; the time frame for the introduction of the legislation at second stage in Dáil Éireann; if a report on the voluntary register will be provided including the number of persons and organisations registered; the number of complaints received annually since the register was established; and the number of complaints in which the finding was against the construction professional or organisation in each year. [2717/21]

2021-01-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if a report will be provided on the Traveller accommodation budget spend by each local authority in 2020, by new accommodation, refurbishment of existing accommodation and site improvements to meet Covid-19 public health advice; and if any of the funding was spent on mainstream or general needs housing for Travellers. [2718/21]

2021-01-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of Call for Housing 2020; the number of properties offered for sale; the number purchased; and the number occupied by house size and local authority area. [2719/21]

2021-01-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the figures for the quarter 4 social housing output; and if he will provide a report on the total social housing output for 2020, by categories (details supplied). [2721/21]

2021-01-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the detail of the working group established to examine the issue of latent defects including the membership of the group; the terms of reference of the group; the number of times the group has met; and if the group will be making a call for submissions from interested parties and members of the public. [2722/21]

2021-01-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of each of the recommendations of the Expert Review Group on Traveller Accommodation; and the status of the implementation of each of the recommendations by the group in tabular form. [2723/21]

2021-01-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of social housing developments currently in the new one stage approval process; and the number of units of accommodation in these schemes. [2724/21]

2021-01-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the breakdown of the costs for each year since 2016 for the design, hosting, branding and other media and communication-related costs arising from the Rebuilding Ireland plan, including the website, social media account (details supplied), events, publications and other related matters. [2725/21]

2021-01-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will publish the public sector benchmarking exercise used in the first bundle of the social housing PPPs. [2726/21]

2021-01-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of times the homeless working group established by the Minister has met; the dates on which it has met; the outcomes of those meetings in terms of specific actions; if he will publish all minutes and other related documents from these meetings since it was established; and if he will publicise all future minutes and related documents for future meetings as they occur on his Department’s website. [2727/21]

2021-01-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the review of the national architecture policy. [2739/21]

2021-01-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the review of the National Parks and Wildlife Service. [2740/21]

2021-01-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of times the housing delivery group has met; the dates on which it has met; the members of the group; the specific outcomes of the group in terms of actions; if he will publish all minutes and documents arising from this group on the Department's website for meetings that have happened to date and any future meetings. [2742/21]

2021-01-14

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the annual expenditure and the number of properties remediated annually under the pyrite resolution scheme in each of the years 2014 to 2020; and the budget allocation and anticipated number of properties to be remediated in 2021, in tabular form. [1944/21]

2021-01-14

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the cost to the State arising from the issue of defects and remediation at a location (details supplied); the breakdown of the cost of remediation of the apartments; the number of apartments remediated; the cost of emergency accommodation; the cost of legal fees incurred by Government and Dublin City Council; the other area of costs not included in this list; and the amount recouped by the State from the sale of the remediated apartments at the location. [1949/21]

2021-01-14

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the action taken with respect to the 20 local authority housing estates that were the subject of the IFHS collective complaint against the Irish State to the European Committee of Social Rights in from 2014; and his plans to address the Committee of Ministers' findings that the Irish State was in breach of Article 16 of the European Social Charter with respect to the substandard quality of accommodation for a substantial number of local authority tenants and the failure of the State to address these standards in a timely manner. [2058/21]

2020-12-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the requirements or communication his Department has made in respect of the use of sonar in Irish waters in view of the impact of sonar on certain cetaceans in particular and the protection Ireland is obliged to provide for such species under EU directives binding on Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44139/20]

2020-12-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the steps taken and considerations made in respect of limiting the impact on cetaceans in Irish waters from NATO exercises such as operation dynamic mongoose in the past three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44140/20]

2020-12-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 632 of 3 November 2020 and 297 of 1 December 2020, the difference between the average social housing capital investment figures for Dublin city in 2019 and the SHCIP projects on which both sets of figures are based in tabular form. [42732/20]

2020-12-08

PQ

Asked Finance

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Finance the status of and position regarding the operations of National Asset Residential Property Services, NARPS, including the number of residential properties currently held by the vehicle; the number of same leased to social housing providers; the length of the lease terms; the annual cost of these leases to the State; and the future plans for NARPS including if his Department or NAMA are looking at either selling NARPS or expanding the activities of same to further develop social or affordable housing into the future. [41524/20]

2020-12-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his attention has been drawn to the fact that private mortgage to rent providers are outbidding not for profit mortgage to rent providers on mortgage to rent deals and in doing so introducing a level of risk to the stability of the mortgage to rent tenancy; and his plans in this regard. [41523/20]

2020-12-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount of capital funding owed by his Department to each local authority by capital funding type, that is, social housing, retrofitting, maintenance, adaptation grants and so on, in tabular form. [42035/20]

2020-12-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of applications for mortgage-to-rent since the scheme was introduced; the number of applicants who have been improved; and the number of mortgage-to-rent sales closed by year since the scheme was introduced. [42040/20]

2020-12-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the action he proposes to take to tackle advertised rental properties which consist of less than the 29 square metres per person as recommended in the report furnished to him by his Department’s planning division on co-living shared accommodation. [42080/20]

2020-12-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the action he will take to ensure that priority is given to residential developments that are within 15 minutes' walk or 15 minutes morning peak hour public transport accessibility of a high density employment cluster, defined as 500 workers per hectare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42081/20]

2020-12-02

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if advice has been given by his Department to the Housing Agency or local authorities regarding establishing whether successful applicants for the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme are being required to provide proof that they are not in receipt of the employment wage subsidy scheme before being able to draw down their mortgages. [40551/20]

2020-12-01

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the funding plans in place to assist Dublin Zoo and Fota Wildlife Park, which have suffered an income loss due Covid-19 restrictions. [40030/20]

2020-12-01

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the technical update of the Sustainable Urban Housing: Design Standards for New Apartments, Guidelines for Planning Authorities 2018 document in relation to co-living will be issued as Ministerial guidance under section 28 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 (as amended). [40661/20]

2020-12-01

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he will sign and publish the updated guidance document that includes a specific planning policy requirement on co-living; if this will effect an outright ban on co-living; and if planning authorities will have to have regard to this guidance when deciding on a co-living application submitted prior to the issuing of the guidance. [39752/20]

2020-12-01

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the report by a person (details supplied) in relation to marine protected areas as part of the broader development of a marine planning framework will be published. [39831/20]

2020-12-01

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will publish the circular issued to local authorities and An Bord Pleanála on the issue of co-living following his announcement of a ban on such developments. [40033/20]

2020-11-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average turnaround for refurbishing vacant houses owned by local authorities in counties Cavan, Monaghan, Meath, Louth, Longford and Westmeath on an annual basis since January 2018 to October 2020; the annual budget available from January 2018 to October 2020 made available to these counties for restoring council-owned vacant properties; and the percentage of that budget spent during that same period on making council-owned properties habitable in tabular form. [39326/20]

2020-11-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount requested from counties Cavan, Monaghan, Meath, Louth, Longford and Westmeath from the repair and lease scheme and buy and renew scheme since January 2018 to date in 2020; and the number of private properties that have been bought by local authorities to rehouse persons in these counties through the repair and lease and the buy and renew schemes in tabular form. [39327/20]

2020-11-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the annual budget allocated to counties Cavan, Monaghan, Meath, Louth, Longford and Westmeath in each of the years 2018 to 2020 to provide for Traveller housing accommodation; the percentage of that funding spent annually in each of these counties on the provision of accommodation for members of the Traveller community; and the amount of unspent funding returned during that same period in tabular form. [39328/20]

2020-11-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he plans to publish the report of his Department into alleged planning irregularities in County Donegal; and the action he plans to take on foot of its findings. [39452/20]

2020-11-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the names and biographies of the two recent appointees to the board of the National Oversight and Audit Commission. [39078/20]

2020-11-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the social housing quarter 3 output report for 2020 will be published; and the status of the quarter 3 output. [38310/20]

2020-11-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if residential development delivered by the Land Development Agency, LDA, will be delivered through designated activity company subsidiaries of the agency; if LDA developments may include unaffordable open market priced homes on public land; and if the compulsory purchase powers of the agency will be limited to ransom strips. [38722/20]

2020-11-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will work with Dublin City Council to secure European Investment Bank finance and a serviced sites fund allocation to ensure the delivery of social and affordable homes on the Oscar Traynor Road site in Coolock, Dublin 17. [38723/20]

2020-11-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the action he is taking to deal with the rise in the number of deaths of persons who were accessing homeless services or sleeping rough. [38309/20]

2020-11-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of Rebuilding Ireland home loan drawdowns to date in 2020 in each local authority; and the average amount drawn down in each local authority in tabular form. [38311/20]

2020-11-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he has raised concerns with Irish Water on the issue of connection fees for water and sewerage for residential new builds and the taking in charge of developer built wastewater infrastructure in newly built estates. [38312/20]

2020-11-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the implementation of the report of the expert group on Traveller accommodation. [38308/20]

2020-11-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if a list of the 35 individual projects that have been allocated serviced site funding to date of €127 million will be provided; the amount allocated to each project; the total project cost; the local authority responsible and the location of the project; and the total number of affordable units to be delivered on each site. [38163/20]

2020-11-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the programme for Government commitment to introduce a social housing passport to allow certain categories of persons to move from one council list to another without losing their time on list. [37648/20]

2020-11-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the policy with respect to the provision of mortgage protection for Rebuilding Ireland home loan applicants; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that some successful loan applicants cannot secure mortgage protection due to illness or disability issues; and the mechanism there is for applicants to appeal a decision on the designated mortgage protection policy in which they believe the medical or disability grounds for that refusal are not valid. [37218/20]

2020-11-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the review on co-living; and when he plans to publish the review. [36245/20]

2020-11-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of local authority houses accessed annually for accessibility for disabled persons. [36932/20]

2020-11-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount of the local authority housing stock currently available that is accessible for disabled persons. [36933/20]

2020-11-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the mechanisms in place for assessing the effectiveness of the National Housing Strategy for Persons with a Disability 2011; and the impact it has had on disabled persons’ lives. [36934/20]

2020-11-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the housing supports available for disabled persons that do not qualify for social housing supports. [36935/20]

2020-11-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the ongoing EU Commission and European Court of Justice legal action against the State for breaches of the urban waste-water treatment directive. [37016/20]

2020-11-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if private emergency accommodation providers are to be included in the quality standards framework and inspection regime developed by the Dublin Region Homeless Executive; and the level of inspection of voluntary sector emergency accommodation that has taken place since the framework was introduced. [37097/20]

2020-11-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he plans to launch his new affordable housing plan. [35579/20]

2020-11-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he plans to announce the detail of his shared equity loan scheme for approved housing bodies and private sector home purchases. [35580/20]

2020-11-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he plans to issue the methodology for the housing needs demand assessment to local authorities as part of the development plan review process. [35581/20]

2020-11-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he plans to publish his Department’s new rural housing planning guidelines. [35582/20]

2020-11-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he plans to circulate to local authorities the updated development plan guidelines. [35583/20]

2020-11-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the Departmental review into co-living has concluded; if a report has been presented to him; and when he plans to publish the outcome of the review. [35578/20]

2020-11-10

PQ

Asked Justice

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Justice if her Department has responsibility for the Multi-Unit Developments Act 2011; and if her Department has had contact with the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage in terms of a review of the Act. [35287/20]

2020-11-04

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if there are circumstances in which persons that have lost their home due to Celtic tiger era mortgage distress and that have exited a personal insolvency agreement could apply and secure a Rebuilding Ireland home loan. [33987/20]

2020-11-03

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his Department’s 2021 funding commitments, funding streams and targets for the retrofitting of local authority homes, approved housing body owned social housing units and section 38 and section 39 funded community residences which support persons with disabilities.. [32391/20]

2020-11-03

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the responsibilities he has with respect to addressing issues of costal erosion in Portrane and Fingal, County Dublin; the steps he has taken to assist residents at this location whose homes are under threat of collapsing into the sea due to costal erosion; and if he will meet with the residents to discuss their concerns. [32369/20]

2020-11-03

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if funding for the retrofitting of local authority housing will continue to be provided by his Department; and if not, if all social housing retrofitting funding will now come from the Department of Environment, Climate and Communications.. [32688/20]

2020-11-03

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of Rebuilding Ireland home loans that have been drawn down by applicants who went on the wage subsidy scheme after having received mortgage approval in principal by month in tabular form; and the number of applicants on the wage subsidy scheme who have received mortgage approval in principal on foot of an application submitted after they went onto the wage subsidy scheme. [32702/20]

2020-11-03

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the breakdown of the 9,500 new build social homes targeted for delivery in 2021 by SHIP new builds, SHIP turnkeys, AHB new builds, AHB turnkeys, CAS new builds, Part Vs and PPPs. [33328/20]

2020-11-03

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average cost of Part V units in each local authority for 2018 and 2019, in tabular form. [33329/20]

2020-11-03

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average cost of SHIP construction units in each local authority for 2018 and 2019, in tabular form. [33330/20]

2020-11-03

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average cost of SHIP turnkey units in each local authority for 2018 and 2019, in tabular form. [33331/20]

2020-10-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the breakdown of the funding allocation for his Department for 2021, by project. [31816/20]

2020-10-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the allocation of serviced sites fund by project for 2019 and 2020, in tabular form; the amount allocated and drawn down; the location of the development; the number and typology of homes per project; if the project has planning; if the project has commenced construction; and the estimated target date for completion. [31817/20]

2020-10-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if Dublin City Council has submitted an application for the serviced sites fund for St. Michael's Estate, Inchicore, Dublin 8; the amount requested; and when a decision will be made on the issue. [31818/20]

2020-10-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount, interest rate and maturity on the European Investment Bank loan provided for the cost rental apartments in St. Michael's Estate, Inchicore, Dublin 8. [31819/20]

2020-10-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he has sought the advice of the Central Bank on the shared equity loan for which €75 million of funding was provided in Budget 2021; and if so, if the advice will be published. [31820/20]

2020-10-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he has sought the advice of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform on the shared equity loan for which €75 million of funding provided in Budget 2021; and if so, if the advice will be published. [31821/20]

2020-10-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the breakdown of the 10,300 social homes targeted for delivery in 2021 by category (details supplied). [31822/20]

2020-10-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of homeless taskforce meetings he has held since taking office; the dates on which these meetings were held; and the attendees at these meetings. [31908/20]

2020-10-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of housing delivery taskforce meetings he has held since taking office; the dates on which these meetings were held; and the attendees at these meetings. [31909/20]

2020-10-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the Traveller accommodation funding drawn down by each local authority to date in 2020, in tabular form. [31918/20]

2020-10-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of Rebuilding Ireland home loan applications; and the number approved and drawn down in each quarter of 2020. [31919/20]

2020-10-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average Rebuilding Ireland home loan amount that was drawn down in Dublin and outside of Dublin, respectively in each quarter of 2020. [31920/20]

2020-10-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the detail of the organisations that made submissions to the public consultation on the general scheme of the water environment (abstractions) Bill in September and October 2018. [31930/20]

2020-10-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will publish a quarterly Traveller accommodation construction pipeline report similar to that currently produced for social housing to enable the Houses of the Oireachtas to track the progress in the delivery of Traveller accommodation under the new TAPs. [29869/20]

2020-10-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will publish a quarterly serviced sites fund accommodation construction pipeline report similar to that currently produced for social housing to enable the Houses of the Oireachtas to track the progress in the delivery of affordable accommodation to rent and buy under the fund. [29870/20]

2020-10-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he expects the delivery of the 20,000 homes including 8,000 discounted price homes assisted through the Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund which was to see the delivery of these homes by the end of 2019; the status of the spreadsheet of each LIHAF funded project including the number of discounted units delivered to date; and the price of the discounted units. [29871/20]

2020-10-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to outline his plans to publish new heads of a Bill for the Land Development Agency; and if he plans to consult with the Joint Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage before proceeding to finalisation of the legislation and publication of the final LDA Bill. [29872/20]

2020-10-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of housing first tenancies created in each of the years 2016 to 2019 and to date in 2020; and the breakdown for each local authority for each of the years and to date in 2020. [29873/20]

2020-10-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of efforts by his Department to deliver affordable housing on the Glass Bottle site, Ringsend, Dublin; and if the delivery of the homes has been affected by the inability of NAMA to reach a commercial agreement with Dublin City Council and his Department prior to the competitive process commencing for the site in July 2019. [29447/20]

2020-10-06

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the affordable housing plan. [28829/20]

2020-10-06

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his policy response to the increase in the number of deaths of persons accessing emergency homeless accommodation and-or sleeping rough. [28830/20]

2020-10-06

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if additional financial support will be made available to local authorities to make up for the shortfall in non-rates revenue and additional expenditure due to Covid-19. [28369/20]

2020-10-06

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the capital advance leasing facility rules will be amended to allow approved housing bodies to provide both social and affordable homes particularly when acquiring turnkeys from the private sector. [28371/20]

2020-10-06

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if provision will be made in budget 2021 for a latent defects redress scheme. [28368/20]

2020-10-06

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on the increasing length of time it is taking to process HAP applications; and his further views on the impact the delay may be having on tenants. [28367/20]

2020-10-06

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of his review on co-living. [28370/20]

2020-10-06

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of Rebuilding Ireland home loans approved in principle and drawn down in each local authority area in the first two quarters of 2020, in tabular form. [28160/20]

2020-10-06

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if businesses that are accessing the commercial rates waiver can continue to do so if they are also on the vacant sites register. [28631/20]

2020-10-06

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason he has extended the pyrite mediation scheme to County Limerick while refusing to do the same for homeowners affected by pyrite in County Clare. [28751/20]

2020-10-06

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of properties that have been secured to purchase arising from his call for housing; a breakdown of the number of houses secured by local authority type and number of bedrooms. [28752/20]

2020-09-30

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of his consideration of the Planning Regulator's report and recommendation on overturning the planning permission for the east Cork retail park; and when a decision will be made on the report. [27448/20]

2020-09-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the quarter 2 2020 social housing pipeline report will be published. [26571/20]

2020-09-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the quarter 2 2020 social housing pipeline report will include the number of projects that will fall under the new one-stage approvals process; and the number of units that will be delivered by the fast-tracked projects. [26572/20]

2020-09-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the national architect policy; and if a draft of the policy will be brought to the housing committee before agreeing same. [26764/20]

2020-09-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the review into co-living; the person or body leading the review; the number of meetings that have taken place of the review group; the terms of reference of the review; and when it will conclude its work. [26868/20]

2020-09-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of active rental accommodation scheme tenancies. [26112/20]

2020-09-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total capital assistance scheme allocation in 2019; the number of bed spaces provided under the allocation; and the average capital cost per bed space. [24862/20]

2020-09-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total funding allocation under the capital assistance scheme for accommodation for victims of domestic violence in 2019; the number of bed spaces provided; and the average capital cost per bed space. [24863/20]

2020-09-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if changes will need to be made to environmental impact assessment legislation in view of the European Court of Judgement decision on the planning permission by a company (details supplied) in County Kerry. [25124/20]

2020-09-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his attention has been drawn to the significant delay in HAP processing times across local authorities and the impact this is having on households, many at risk of homelessness, accessing private rental accommodation; and if he will seek a report on the problem from the shared service provider for HAP applications in Limerick City and County Council to establish the extent of the problem and the steps that can be taken to remedy this situation. [25125/20]

2020-09-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if eligibility of the second time buyers will be considered in scenarios (details supplied) in order to apply for the Rebuilding Ireland home loan. [25136/20]

2020-09-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if persons that lost their first home due to the breakdown of a relationship and that are in negative equity will be considered eligible as potential second time buyers for the new affordable housing scheme. [25137/20]

2020-09-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the review of the tenant purchase scheme. [25138/20]

2020-09-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the review of the income limits for eligibility for social housing support. [25139/20]

2020-09-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the current legislative and policy position of his Department with respect to the issue of tenant purchase among the approved housing body sector. [24682/20]

2020-09-16

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will consider classifying 40 Herbert Park, the home of 1916 veteran Michael Joseph O'Rahilly known as The O'Rahilly, as a national monument. [24275/20]

2020-09-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will consider expanding the pyrite and mica defects scheme to counties other than Mayo and Donegal, such as County Clare, in cases in which home owners can demonstrate their homes are affected by the same defective building materials. [23259/20]

2020-09-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if responsibility for Traveller accommodation has been delegated to one of the Ministers of State within his Department; if so, the Minister of State; and the status of the implementation of the recommendations from the report of the Expert Group on Traveller Accommodation. [23376/20]

2020-09-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average cost of turnkey social housing units per unit by local authority in each of the years 2017 to 2019, in tabular form. [22819/20]

2020-09-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average cost of SHIP social housing units per unit by local authority in each of the years 2017 to 2019, in tabular form. [22820/20]

2020-09-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the establishment of an approved housing body SPV for the purposes of drawing down funding from bodies such as credit unions for the purposes of the delivery of social housing. [22821/20]

2020-09-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will discuss with the Minister for Finance and the Central Bank the matter of allowing credit unions to invest in the delivery of affordable housing. [22822/20]

2020-09-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of his plans to secure the reclassification of approved housing bodies as off-balance sheet. [22823/20]

2020-09-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of negotiations between Irish Water, a committee (details supplied) and his Department on the creation of a single water utility. [22824/20]

2020-09-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his response to the recent spike in deaths of persons accessing homeless services; and his plans to address the growing human tragedy. [22825/20]

2020-09-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the minutes of his weekly meetings with homeless service providers will be published. [22826/20]

2020-09-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the projected shortfall in rates and non-rates funding for local authorities by council for 2019; the estimated additional Covid-19-related funding required by each by local authority for 2019; and his plans to address the non-rates shortfall and Covid-19-related additional costs for 2020. [22827/20]

2020-09-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the functions transferred to his Department as part of the reconfiguration of the Department to include issues pertaining to heritage. [22828/20]

2020-09-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the timeline for the publication of the final general scheme of the marine planning and development Bill. [22835/20]

2020-09-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the timeline and draft terms of reference for the review of the National Parks and Wildlife Service; and if the Committee will be involved in the design, content and conclusion of the review. [22836/20]

2020-09-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average cost of Part V social housing units by local authority for 2017, 2018 and 2019. [22837/20]

2020-09-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the statutory basis on which the Land Development Agency is engaged in masterplanning exercises on lands in Limerick city and Cork city, respectively; the impact these plans will have on the current and future city and county development plans for these local authorities; and the form of approval and oversight his Department has over these masterplanning processes. [22900/20]

2020-09-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he has met lobbyists or representatives of residential developers or investment funds to discuss the introduction of a State-funded shared equity scheme for the purchase of private homes; if so, the details of the persons or bodies met, when they met and the contents of the discussions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23021/20]

2020-09-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans as part of the annual cold weather homeless initiative. [22829/20]

2020-07-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if a list of the 2,000 void social housing units being targeted in the July stimulus package by local authorities will be provided; if the €30 million allocation is in addition to the capital allocation for social housing agreed in budget 2020; and if not, if it is a reprofiling of existing capital funding from new build to void refurbishment in tabular form. [19379/20]

2020-07-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the shovel-ready projects being funded under the announced €30 million additional funding for Irish Water as part of the July stimulus package. [19380/20]

2020-07-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of active rental accommodation scheme tenancies in place. [18352/20]

2020-07-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government when the call for housing 2020 was established; the person heading up the initiative; the number of staff who will be working on the phone lines; and the estimated cost of establishing the initiative. [18379/20]

2020-07-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the circumstances in which a developer can receive an exemption to Part V requirements; his plans to review the availability of these exemptions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18413/20]

2020-07-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the funding allocated to local authorities to bring back voids into use in 2019 and to date in 2020; and the percentage of the funding spent on returning a void to use that can be recouped by local authorities from his Department. [18883/20]

2020-07-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if his Department has received a request from Dublin City Council to approve and fund the acquisition of units of accommodation from a development by a company (details supplied) for the purposes of providing affordable cost-rental accommodation; if so, the details of the funding request; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18914/20]

2020-07-23

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the measures he plans to put in place to address the rent arrears debt burden arising from tenants falling behind in their rent due to Covid-19 temporary lay-offs. [17908/20]

2020-07-23

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if shared equity will be considered in his approach to affordable housing; and if the purchase prices he has quoted recently in the media are inclusive or exclusive of the shared equity stake to be acquired by the State. [17909/20]

2020-07-23

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the estimated rates and non-rates funding shortfall for local authorities in 2020; and if he will fully meet this shortfall in order that local authorities do not have to cut staff or services due to the loss of income during the Covid-19 pandemic. [17910/20]

2020-07-23

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he will reverse the blanket ban on the drawdown of Rebuilding Ireland home loans for applicants with approval in principle who are on the temporary wage subsidy scheme; and if he will revert to the advice provided by his Department to local authorities on 21 May 2020 to provide for case-by-case assessments of all applications including those with approval in principal. [17633/20]

2020-07-23

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans to address the lack of effectiveness and the weight of delays with the local infrastructure housing activation fund. [17630/20]

2020-07-23

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans to use the planning powers as set out in the Planning and Development (Amendment) Act 2015 to ban co-living. [17632/20]

2020-07-23

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans to introduce a new planning offence and fine for short-term letting platforms and estate agents that advertise short-term lets which are not compliant with the planning permission requirements of the existing short-term letting regulations. [17631/20]

2020-07-23

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if €100 million in funding was cut from the capital budget of Irish Water in 2020; and the impact this cut has had on wastewater treatment plant upgrade deadlines and in turn on the EU Commission action against the State for breaches of the urban wastewater treatment directive. [17629/20]

2020-07-23

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the average cost of providing a Traveller-specific accommodation unit as funded by the local authority Traveller accommodation programme in 2019. [17714/20]

2020-07-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the reason for the delays in amending the planning regulations on solar panel installations on schools and community buildings in view of the fact that the Climate Action Plan 2019 committed to relax the strict requirement for planning permission by the end of quarter 4 of 2019. [17490/20]

2020-07-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the current wastewater treatment upgrade projects as required to be in compliance with the urban wastewater treatment directive; the amount of capital funding provided for each project in each of the years 2014 to 2024; and the completion date for each project in tabular form. [17528/20]

2020-07-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of the forthcoming river basin management plan; and if he will consult the relevant Oireachtas committee and stakeholders in advance of the publication of the draft plan due for completion in 2021. [17529/20]

2020-07-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of the offshore wind farm planning legislation. [17530/20]

2020-07-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of the marine protection plan. [17531/20]

2020-07-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of social housing units delivered in Q1 and Q2 of 2020. [16548/20]

2020-07-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of Rebuilding Ireland home loans approved in principle and drawn down in each local authority area in the first two quarters of 2020, in tabular form. [16549/20]

2020-07-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of homes brought into use in the first six months of 2020 via the repair and lease scheme. [16550/20]

2020-07-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of homes brought into use in the first six months of 2020 via the buy and renew scheme. [16551/20]

2020-07-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of homes acquired via the Housing Agency in Q1 and Q2 of 2020; and the average cost of each unit. [16552/20]

2020-07-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the Traveller accommodation allocations for each local authority for 2020; and the drawdown for Q1 and Q2 of 2020 by local authority in tabular form. [16553/20]

2020-07-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the amount of funding allocated each year via grant aid for lead pipe replacement for domestic use since grant funding was introduced; the number of households that have accessed grant aid each year; and the amount of funding drawn down each year, in tabular form. [16715/20]

2020-07-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he is examining the possibility of leasing privately-owned properties for up to 100 years for the purpose of social housing delivery; and the analysis being used in assessing such a scheme whether produced by his Department, the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, the Department of Finance or the National Development Finance Agency. [16717/20]

2020-07-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the affordable housing projects being funded with the serviced sites fund; the anticipated sale price of the properties in each scheme; the shared equity stake held by the State in the properties in each scheme; if the shared equity stake is in addition to the sale price of the home; and the repayment mechanisms available to the purchaser to repay the shared equity portion, in tabular form. [16718/20]

2020-07-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the details of the recently announced homelessness taskforce; the membership and terms of reference; the number of meetings that have taken place to date; and the frequency of meetings anticipated in July and August 2020. [16720/20]

2020-07-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the details of the recently announced housing commission; the membership and terms of reference; the number of meetings that have taken place to date; and the frequency of meetings anticipated in July and August 2020. [16721/20]

2020-07-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he or his officials have met with groups (details supplied) or other industry lobby groups to discuss the introduction of a State-backed shared equity scheme for private sector homes; if so, when the meetings took place; the persons and bodies that attended the meetings; the specific proposals discussed; and if his Department is considering such schemes. [16722/20]

2020-07-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans to introduce leases of indefinite duration for the private rented sector including the removal of section 34(b) of the Residential Tenancies Act 2004. [16996/20]

2020-07-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of his commitment to review the co-living planning regulations. [16997/20]

2020-07-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans to tackle the underspend and time lags for the delivery of residential units under the local infrastructure housing activation fund. [16998/20]

2020-07-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans to amend the housing assistance payment legislation in order that HAP is transformed into a short-term housing support as opposed to under the current legislation in which a recipient's social housing needs being deemed as met. [16999/20]

2020-07-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the way in which he plans to strengthen the short-term letting regulations [17000/20]

2020-07-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the timeline for the lifting of the spending cap on local authorities from €2 million; and his views on whether by implementing a one stage process that too much additional risk will be placed on local authorities. [17001/20]

2020-07-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the changes he is making to the mortgage to rent scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17002/20]

2020-07-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the changes he plans to make to modernise the planning system as stated in an interview (details supplied). [17003/20]

2020-07-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the terms of reference for the review of the housing density rule as stated in an interview (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17004/20]

2020-07-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the average construction and all-in development costs for one, two, three and four bedroom social houses and one, two and three bedroom social housing apartments delivered under the SHIP in the past 12 months as distinct from the Departmental expenditure ceilings for such units which was provided in an earlier reply, in tabular form. [17233/20]

2020-07-21

PQ

Asked Employment

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are discussions between her Department and the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government on the use of the Covid-19 rent supplement payment and or the SWA emergency payment scheme to address the issue of Covid-19 rent arrears debt for private renters who lost income due to Covid-19 restrictions. [16699/20]

2020-07-16

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of short-term let properties operating in rent pressure zones without the appropriate permissions identified by the local authorities and brought back to the long-term rental market since the relevant amendments to the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended, in 2019 by local authority, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16355/20]

2020-07-16

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of applications received by local authorities from landlords wishing to let their properties as short-term lets; the number of these approved since the relevant amendments to the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended, in 2019 by local authority, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16356/20]

2020-07-16

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of owner occupiers that have notified the local authority of their intention to engage in home sharing since the relevant amendments to the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended, in 2019 by local authority, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16357/20]

2020-07-16

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he is considering regulating the platforms advertising these short-term lets placing the responsibility on the platform to ensure the host has secured the relevant planning permissions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16358/20]

2020-07-14

PQ

Asked Culture

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of the draft national architecture strategy; and if she will consult the incoming joint Oireachtas committee on housing, local government and heritage at the earliest opportunity on the matter. [15223/20]

2020-07-14

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he will publish the report into alleged planning irregularities in County Donegal; and the action he plans to take on foot of the findings of the report. [14786/20]

2020-07-14

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his views on the latest EPA report detailing problems with 50 wastewater treatment plants nationwide; the reason completion dates for the upgrade of wastewater treatment plans in breach of the urban wastewater treatment directive have been moved from 2021 to 2024; the way in which this will affect the ongoing European Commission enforcement proceedings against Ireland for breaches of the directive; and the capital budget for wastewater treatment plant upgrades in each of the years 2014 to 2024, in tabular form. [15373/20]

2020-07-14

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the most recent average construction and all-in development costs for one-, two-, three- and four-bedroom social houses and one-, two- and three-bedroom social apartments delivered under the SHIP programme, in tabular form. [15735/20]

2020-07-14

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the average cost of acquiring one-, two-, three- and four-bedroom social houses and one-, two- and three-bedroom social apartments under Part V in 2019, in tabular form. [15736/20]

2020-07-14

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the average cost per unit of the 1,119 social housing turnkey units that were delivered in 2019. [15737/20]

2020-07-14

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the average cost of delivering a turnkey unit for social housing by approved housing bodies in 2019. [15738/20]

2020-07-14

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the average cost of acquiring a unit by local authorities for social housing in 2019. [15739/20]

2020-07-14

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the average cost of acquiring a unit for social housing use through the buy-and-renew scheme. [15740/20]

2020-07-14

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the estimated cost to the Exchequer due to revenue lost in rates and non-rates by local authorities due to Covid-19. [15741/20]

2020-07-14

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans for the implementation of the recommendations of the expert group on Traveller accommodation published in July 2019. [15742/20]

2020-07-14

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the amount allocated to each local authority for rental property inspections to date in 2020; and the projected increase in funding for this purpose for 2021 and 2022. [15743/20]

2020-07-14

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the expenditure on HAP in 2019 and to date in 2020. [15744/20]

2020-07-14

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the expenditure on SHCEP in 2019 and to date in 2020. [15745/20]

2020-07-14

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the expenditure on RAS in 2019 and to date in 2020. [15746/20]

2020-07-14

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the total allocation and drawdown of housing adaptation grants in 2019 and to date in 2020. [15747/20]

2020-07-14

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the average cost of retrofitting a social home in 2019. [15748/20]

2020-07-14

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government when the research being conducted by the ESRI on rental debt during the Covid-19 crisis will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15774/20]

2020-07-09

VOTE

Affordable Housing · 2 divisions

✗ voted against the motion the motion motion passed · 82–61
✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion passed · 80–60

2020-07-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the functions and agencies that fall within the remit of his Department; the functions or agencies that were previously under remit of his Department that are now not within the remit of his Department; and the functions and agencies covered by the heritage remit of his Department. [14087/20]

2020-07-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if the planning functions of the Department for Housing, Planning and Local Government have remained within his Department. [14089/20]

2020-07-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the average cost of Part V social housing units by local authority in 2018 and 2019, in tabular form. [14090/20]

2020-07-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the average cost of turnkey social housing units by local authority area in each of the years 2016 to 2019, in tabular form. [14091/20]

2020-07-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the average cost of Social Housing Capital Investment Programme units by local authority area in each of the years 2016 to 2019, in tabular form. [14092/20]

2020-07-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if the programme for Government commitment to hold a referendum on housing will be a referendum to enshrine the right to housing in the Constitution; and if so, the timeline for the publication of the legislation and the holding of the referendum. [14096/20]

2020-07-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of the efforts by his Department to create a single water utility; and his plans to bring forward legislation to provide for a referendum to enshrine public ownership of the public water system in the Constitution. [14097/20]

2020-07-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the details of the incremental purchase scheme; the local authorities operating the scheme; and the number and price of units delivered annually to date for each of the local authorities. [14104/20]

2020-07-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his views on the submission by the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission to the Council of Europe on the 17th National Report by Ireland on the Implementation of the European Social Charter published on 29 June 2020; and the actions he plans to take to address the housing problems raised in the submission. [14110/20]

2020-07-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if a circular has been drafted by his Department and is to be issued to local authorities imposing a blanket ban on the drawdown of Rebuilding Ireland home loans in circumstances in which the applicant with approval in principal is in receipt of the temporary wage subsidy scheme. [14260/20]

2020-07-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if the National Parks and Wildlife Service is under the remit of his Department. [14363/20]

2020-07-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if it is policy to deliver affordable housing at prices between €160,000 and €250,000; if the equity share of the State in the properties is included in these prices; if not, if it is additional to these prices; the equity share in same; and the all in development costs that will allow his Department to deliver affordable homes at these prices. [14388/20]

2020-06-30

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if a copy of the instruction or guidelines issued by his Department to local authorities will be provided with respect to section 10 funding in which it states the services that will be funded and not funded. [12770/20]

2020-06-23

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if the public spending code does not apply to residential developments by the Land Development Agency; if aspects of the spending code apply to such developments; if so, the parts that apply; and the way in which this application differs to capital projects led by Departments and local authorities. [12273/20]

2020-06-23

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans to review the planning regulations governing nursing homes in view of the Covid-19 pandemic and the high death rate among residents of such homes; and his further plans to include in this review nursing home developments that have planning permission but that have not commenced construction. [12270/20]

2020-06-23

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if the four-stage approval process applied to local authorities for social housing construction developments does not apply to developments left by the Land Development Agency. [12272/20]

2020-06-23

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he will provide an itemised breakdown of the capital expenditure by the Land Development Agency in 2018, 2019 and to date in 2020. [12274/20]

2020-06-23

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he will address a report (details supplied) about the impact of water consumption by data processing centres on water supply; his views on the impact of this consumption on water supply during periods when Irish Water is encouraging water conservation; and if he will publish or request Irish Water to publish the volume of water consumption by data processing centres by local authority area. [12275/20]

2020-06-23

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government when he will be deciding on the recommendation by the Office of the Planning Regulator to annul the recent variation to the Cork County Council development plan aimed at allowing the development of a retail village at Carrigtwohill. [12278/20]

2020-06-23

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government when he will publish the report from his officials into alleged planning irregularities in County Donegal; the content of the report; and his planned actions on foot of its findings. [12279/20]

2020-06-23

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he will provide an organisational chart of the management team of his Department, detailing the names and responsibilities of each official at principal officer grade and above. [12280/20]

2020-06-23

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of the implementation of the recommendations of the expert group on Traveller accommodation; the details of the lead official working on this area; and the number of times meetings have taken place to manage the implementation of the report since its publication. [12281/20]

2020-06-23

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of the legislation to put the construction industry register on a statutory footing. [12282/20]

2020-06-16

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the average approval offering by each local authority of the 1,550 Rebuilding Ireland home loan approvals made in 2018; the number of loans drawn down in each local authority; and the average amount of the drawn down loans in tabular form. [10592/20]

2020-06-16

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if the design standards for build to rent apartment developments as per the 2018 mandatory design guidelines are deemed acceptable by him for social housing delivery by local authorities, approved housing bodies, the Land Development Agency and Part V development; the difference in size, dual aspect and storage requirements; and the difference between the standard departmental social housing design template and those in the build to rent standards in tabular form. [10598/20]

2020-06-16

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the expenditure on HAP in 2019. [10752/20]

2020-06-16

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the expenditure on RAS in 2019. [10753/20]

2020-06-16

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of households which were recorded on the PASS system as in own door accommodation in each reference week in the first four months of 2020. [10754/20]

2020-06-16

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the annual expenditure on HAP for each year that the payment has been in operation; and the amount spent to date in 2020 on HAP in tabular form. [10827/20]

2020-06-16

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if the affordable housing regulations being drafted have been completed; if so, when he received them; when they will be published; if they have not been completed, the reason, in view of the fact he indicated in 2019 that they were imminent; and when they will be completed. [10828/20]

2020-06-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if capital expenditure by the Land Development Agency is not subject to the Public Spending Code, Cost Effectives Analyses or his Department’s four stage approval process; and if so, the reason all of these public spending control mechanisms apply to local authorities when developing social and affordable housing but not to the Land Development Agency. [9877/20]

2020-06-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the details of and measures to be undertaken of the capital allocation to the Land Development Agency of €16,500,000 in 2019 and €13,500,000; the controls in place to ensure that this expenditure conforms with value for money and spending code rules; and the details of the spending made in 2019 and to date in 2020 of the funding drawdown of €467,000 and €2,500,000, respectively. [9891/20]

2020-06-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the average length of time of the 733 Part V leases delivered in 2019; the average cost of the leases; the number of these leases in which the property will be owned by a local authority or approved housing body when the lease expires; and the number of these leases in which the ownership will remain in private hands when the lease expires. [9929/20]

2020-06-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the breakdown of the 6,074 social housing builds in 2019 by category (details supplied). [10000/20]

2020-06-03

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of the register for architectural technicians. [8303/20]

2020-06-03

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if contact had been made between his Department and the EU Director General for Competition on the issue of the Land Development Agency since the conclusion of pre-legislative scrutiny of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019 by the Houses of the Oireachtas committee on housing, planning and local government; if so, the details of the contact; and if correspondence arising from same will be published. [8557/20]

2020-06-03

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if Land Development Agency staff are designated as public officials under the Regulation of Lobbying Act 2015; if not, the reason; and if he will examine ways in which to ensure they are required to register as designated public officials. [8676/20]

2020-06-03

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the funding being provided for the social and affordable housing development at Shanganagh Castle, Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin. [8677/20]

2020-06-03

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the land that has been transferred to the Land Development Agency to date; and if no such land can or will be transferred to it prior to the agency being put on a statutory footing. [8678/20]

2020-06-03

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if the public relations consultancy acting for the Land Development Agency is a company (details supplied); if his attention was drawn to this appointment before it was made; and his views on whether there is a conflict of interest in this relationship in view of the fact the company has other residential developers on its books. [8679/20]

2020-06-03

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the planning application submitted by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council for social and affordable housing in Shanganagh includes proposals to apply the build to rent apartment standards to the social housing component of the development; and if this complies with the standards for social housing issued by his Department. [8715/20]

2020-06-03

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the reason his Department is providing a latent defects redress scheme for homeowners affected by pyrite and MICA in counties Mayo and Donegal but refusing to provide similar supports to homeowners with latent defects in other parts of the country; and his views on whether this selective approach to assisting only some homeowners with latent defects could be classed as discriminatory to those homeowners with latent defects that are receiving no support to address serious fire safety and structural issues with their homes. [8716/20]

2020-06-03

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if the 733 leased Part V units delivered in 2019 were in addition to or included in the 1,326 Part V units reported in the table included with the press release on the 2019 social housing output released on 22 May 2020 and published on his Departments website; if the same 733 leased Part V units are included in the 1,161 leased total detailed in the same table in the press release; and if so, if this means that the 733 leased Part V units have been double counted in the stock total figure of 10,007 figure in the same table in the same press release. [8717/20]

2020-06-03

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if the 733 leased Part V units delivered in 2019 are lease to buy or if the property reverts to the private owner at the end of the lease term. [8718/20]

2020-06-03

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the breakdown of the 11,498 site finish social housing units referenced in appendix 2 of the social housing construction projects status report Q4 2019 by funding programme (details supplied). [8783/20]

2020-06-03

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of capital assistance scheme and capital loan and subsidy scheme funded social housing units which have exited their original 20 or 30 mortgages; and his plans with respect to the future use of the units by approved housing bodies. [8989/20]

2020-06-03

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if the rent pressure zone cap of 4% applies to a property which is being transferred from a social rental tenancy with differential rent to a private rental tenancy for the first time within 12 months of the social housing tenancy ending. [8990/20]

2020-06-03

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if the rent pressure zone cap of 4% applies to a property which is being transferred from a RAS tenancy to a private rental tenancy for the first time within 12 months of the RAS tenancy ending. [8991/20]

2020-06-03

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if the rent pressure zone cap of 4% applies to a property which is being transferred from a HAP tenancy to a private rental tenancy for the first time within 12 months of the HAP tenancy ending. [8992/20]

2020-06-03

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the views of the European Commission on the delayed timetable for upgrading a number of the non-compliant plants as detailed in the media (details supplied) in view of the ongoing European Commission enforcement proceedings against Ireland with respect to the breaches of the urban wastewater directive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8993/20]

2020-06-03

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the average approval offering by each local authority of the 1,550 Rebuilding Ireland home loan approvals made in 2019; the number of loans drawn down in each local authority; and the average amount of the drawn down loans in tabular form. [9057/20]

2020-06-03

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the local authorities that have requested additional finding under the Traveller accommodation programme to address the needs of Traveller families that are homeless or at risk of homelessness but unable to access emergency accommodation and therefore not on the PASS system. [9267/20]

2020-06-03

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the measures put in place across the four Dublin local authorities and funded by his Department for homeless families and for those not registered on the PASS system in view of the lack of availability of self-accommodation during Covid-19. [9268/20]

2020-06-03

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the allocation sought by Cork City Council under the Traveller accommodation programme to fund projects (details supplied). [9269/20]

2020-06-03

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the measures put in place and funded by his Department for Traveller families in north County Cork and Fermoy who have still not been supplied with water or toilets since the Covid-19 outbreak. [9270/20]

2020-05-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the amount of funding approved for the LDA in 2018, 2019 and 2020; the amount drawn down by the LDA in each of these years; the amount of LDA borrowing approved by his Department in 2018, 2019 and 2020; and the amount of borrowing incurred by the LDA in each of these years. [7642/20]

2020-05-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if all staff appointments and all contracts for services by the Land Development Agency have been publicly advertised and fully comply with all relevant public sector recruitment and procurement rules and guidelines; if there have been exemptions granted from such rules and guidelines; if so, when; and the reason such exemptions were granted. [7177/20]

2020-05-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 1215 and 1249 of 13 May 2020, if the cost reduced or more affordable ten homes in Ratoath, County Meath were purchased by Meath County Council; if so, the price paid per unit by the local authority; and the price they were they sold to homeowners for by unit. [7298/20]

2020-05-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 1215 and 1249 of 13 May 2020, the reason no Part V or no Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund discounted homes have been delivered to date in Carrigaline, County Cork. [7299/20]

2020-05-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 1248 and 1256 of 13 May 2020, the reason less than the 10% required of Part V units were delivered in Oldtown and Mooretown, Fingal, County Dublin; and the average amount the 211 cost reduced and more affordable units sold for by unit. [7300/20]

2020-05-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 1248 and 1256 of 13 May 2020, the reason less than 10% required of Part V units were delivered in Naas, County Kildare; and the average amount the 150 cost reduced and more affordable units sold for by unit. [7301/20]

2020-05-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 1215 and 1249 of 13 May 2020, the average amount the 459 cost reduced and more affordable units in Adamstown SDZ, County Dublin sold for by unit. [7302/20]

2020-05-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 1248 and 1256 of 13 May 2020, the reason no Part V homes have been delivered to date in Glanmire, Cork city. [7303/20]

2020-05-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 1248 and 1256 of 13 May 2020, the reason no Part V homes have been delivered to date in Donabate, Fingal, County Dublin. [7304/20]

2020-05-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 1248 and 1256 of 13 May 2020, the reason no Part V homes have been delivered to date in Mungret, County Limerick. [7305/20]

2020-05-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of efforts to comply with the European Drinking Water Directive; and his plans to take appropriate action further to the issuing of the reasoned opinion by the European Commission on Ireland's alleged non-compliance with the directive since 2003. [7369/20]

2020-05-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the breakdown of the 1,161 long-term social housing leased units delivered in 2019 by type (details supplied); the average annual cost of each lease type; and the full net present cost of each lease type over the full duration of the agreed lease. [7399/20]

2020-05-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the breakdown of the 6,074 social housing builds in 2019 by category (details supplied); and the average price paid or approved by his Department for each category. [7400/20]

2020-05-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the breakdown of the 2,772 acquired social houses in 2019 by local authority; the average price paid or approved by his Department for each local authority area; and the breakdown of the properties in terms of those purchased with a tenant in situ and those purchased vacant. [7401/20]

2020-05-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of the 2,772 social housing acquisitions by local authorities in 2019 that resulted in the issuing of a notice to quit to a sitting tenant as a result of the purchase. [7402/20]

2020-05-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of the proposed use it or lose it planning permission that he indicated he planned to introduce to address the issue of developers in receipt of strategic housing developments planning permission using the permission for speculative gain rather than residential development. [7403/20]

2020-05-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government when the fourth quarter social housing pipeline report will be published. [5706/20]

2020-05-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of homes that have been delivered in total; the number of affordable housing units from statutory and administrative schemes delivered; the number of Part V units delivered; and the number of cost reduced housing units that have been delivered via the local infrastructure housing activation fund. [5708/20]

2020-05-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of the St. Michael’s Estate cost rental project in Inchicore, Dublin 8. [5709/20]

2020-05-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the breakdown of the 2019 social housing output by criteria (details supplied); and the categories by each local authority in tabular form. [5729/20]

2020-05-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of Part V units delivered in 2019 by kilocalories authority and average cost by local authority in tabular form. [5730/20]

2020-05-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of new social housing units delivered via SHCEP in 2019; the number of units by type of lease involved (details supplied); and the average cost of the lease by lease type in tabular form. [5731/20]

2020-05-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the allocation and drawdown by each local authority of their Traveller accommodation budget in tabular form. [5732/20]

2020-05-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of the publication of an independent research proposal on property vacancies by the Housing Agency as outlined in the National Vacant Housing Reuse Strategy 2018-2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5794/20]

2020-05-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of social houses acquired under the Housing Agency vacant housing fund in each year since the fund was introduced; and the average cost of these acquisitions in each year since the scheme has been in operation. [5847/20]

2020-05-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of social houses acquired under the repair and leasing scheme in each year since it was introduced; and the average cost of the leases in each year since the scheme has been in operation. [5848/20]

2020-05-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of social houses acquired under the buy and renew scheme in each year since the fund was introduced; and the average cost of these acquisitions in each year since the scheme has been in operation. [5849/20]

2020-05-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of social homes brought on-stream under the enhanced leasing scheme in each year since the scheme was introduced; and the average annual cost of these leases in each year. [5850/20]

2020-05-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of voids brought back into the housing stock in each of the years 2016 to 2019; and the number of these that were previously vacant for longer than six months in tabular form. [5851/20]

2020-05-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of applications, approvals and drawdowns and the average amount approved and drawn down from the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme by local authority in each year since the scheme was introduced in tabular form. [5853/20]

2020-05-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of the delivery of affordable homes to rent and buy in the Poolbeg and Clonburris strategic development zones, SDZs; the details of the financing of the schemes; and if the financing of the schemes will deliver affordable homes to purchase at less than €250,000 and affordable homes to rent at less than €900 per month. [5854/20]

2020-05-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if the public sector benchmark used for the first bundle of social housing public private partnerships, PPPs, will be published; and the status of each of the three bundles of the social housing PPP scheme by numbers of units, locations of units, names and members of the consortia delivering the bundles and the total cost of each bundle. [5863/20]

2020-05-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans to introduce a latent defects redress scheme in view of the meeting his Department had with a group (details supplied). [5950/20]

2020-05-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of the Land Development Agency; the number of staff employed by the agency; the grade of each; the annual cost of salaries; the number of consultants employed by the agency; the length of their contracts; the nature of the work; the cost of the contracts to date; the number of offices used by the agency; the location and annual lease cost of each; the number of development sites in which the agency has involvement including locations size, partners and numbers of residential units projected for each site; the projected cost of each development; the level of agency financing projected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6718/20]

2020-05-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of NARPS residential properties funded by his Department; the length of the leases on these properties; the annual cost for each year the leases have been in place to date; the estimated net present value of the leases over the duration of the current leases; the AHBs and local authorities managing the properties and tenancies at the leases; the annual cost to date of property and tenancy management; the estimated net present value of property and tenancy management over the lifetime of the lease; and the understanding of his Department as to the position with the properties at the end of the lease term. [6719/20]

2020-05-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of the local infrastructure housing activation fund, LIHAF; the amount of funding awarded to date; and the amount of funding awarded per project to date. [5707/20]

2020-05-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 1225 of 5 March 2020, the average amount of the Rebuilding Ireland home loan drawn down in each local authority in 2019 and to date in 2020, in tabular form. [4474/20]

2020-05-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the spend by each local authority of its Traveller accommodation budget in 2019. [4475/20]

2020-05-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the amount of social housing delivered via each delivery stream, such as, build, acquisition and leasing by each local authority in 2019, in tabular form. [4477/20]

2020-05-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the funding allocated and drawn down under the LIHAF to date; the number of recipients; the details of each; the number of units delivered; the number of discounted units delivered; and the price of each. [4478/20]

2020-05-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of the delivery of affordable homes on the Poolbeg strategic development zone, Dublin. [4479/20]

2020-05-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of the delivery of affordable cost-rental homes on St. Michael’s Estate, Inchicore, Dublin 8. [4480/20]

2020-05-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if local authorities and approved housing bodies will be permitted to access the 40-year financing and the serviced sites funding in order to ensure that the cost-rental rates are as affordable as possible, that is, between €700 and €900 per month. [4481/20]

2020-05-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the value of serviced site funding drawn down to date by each local authority; and the projects in this regard in tabular form. [4482/20]

2020-05-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government when affordable purchase guidelines will be issued to each local authority in terms of the affordable housing scheme. [4483/20]

2020-05-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of developments that have sought planning under the strategic housing development guidelines in 2019 and to date in 2020; the number of the sites that have commenced development; and the number and type of residential units, that is, build-to-rent, co-living, student accommodation, houses and so on, due to be delivered. [4484/20]

2020-05-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government when the social housing construction status report for quarter 4 of 2019 will be published. [4485/20]

2020-05-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he has had discussions with the Minister for Health regarding the reform of the fair deal scheme. [4496/20]

2020-03-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the average construction costs and all-in development costs for one, two, three and four bedroom social houses and one, two and three bedroom social apartments delivered under the SHIP programme in 2019, in tabular form. [3258/20]

2020-03-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of Part V social housing units delivered by each local authority in 2020, by local authority; and the average cost by local authority, in tabular form. [3259/20]

2020-03-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of new long-term leases delivered by each local authority in 2020; and the average cost per year for each local authority in tabular form. [3260/20]

2020-03-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the annual cost by local authority for all long-term leased social housing; the person or body that will own the units at the end of the lease term, that is, local authority, approved housing body, NARPS and private owner, in tabular form. [3261/20]

2020-03-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of social housing units leased from NARPS; the cost per year of the leases since the leases were signed; the length of the leases; and the ownership of the units when the lease term expires. [3262/20]

2020-03-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the total spend by each local authority of their traveller accommodation budget to date in 2020; and the total allocation of such funds for 2020, in tabular form. [3263/20]

2020-03-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of social housing retrofits carried out to date in 2020 by each local authority; the cost of the programme in each local authority; and the average BER rating achieved from the retrofit in each local authority. [3264/20]

2020-03-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of applications, approvals and drawdowns of the Rebuilding Ireland home loan mortgage by local authority to date in 2020; and the average amount approved and drawn down in each local authority in 2020, in tabular form. [3267/20]

2020-03-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number and value of CALF/CLSS loans held by each local authority; the number of social housing units related to the loans; the due date on the loans; the interest rate charged on the loans; and if he will provide other information regarding the loans which he is of the view is relevant in tabular form. [3458/20]

2020-03-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the amount allocated to each local authority to carry out inspections of private rented dwellings in 2019 and to date in 2020. [3484/20]

2020-03-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of the reform of water services including the creation of a single utility and a referendum to enshrine water in public ownership. [3485/20]

2020-03-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of implementing the result of the plebiscite supporting a directly elected mayor for Limerick. [3486/20]

2020-03-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of the report into planning irregularities in County Donegal. [3487/20]

2020-03-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of additional staff allocated to each local authority to bring vacant homes back into use. [3488/20]

2020-03-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of Housing First housing allocations made in 2019 and to date in 2020. [3489/20]

2020-03-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of the implementation of the NZEB regulations. [3490/20]

2020-03-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of the European Court of Justice action against the State for breach of the urban wastewater treatment directive. [3495/20]

2020-03-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the recent issues at a retirement home (details supplied); and his plans to ensure that the elderly and disabled residents in the complex are not evicted as a result of notices to quit issued. [3496/20]

2020-03-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of the work of the working group on rural planning guidelines; when he expects the work of the group to conclude; and when he expects to be in a position to engage with the Houses of the Oireachtas and local authorities on new guidelines for county development plans post the 2019 local government elections to provide guidance on the issue. [3668/20]

2019-12-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he will consider amending the criteria of the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme to make it available to persons that previously owned a home but had it repossessed, voluntarily surrendered it or have been through an insolvency process, but that otherwise meet all the criteria for the scheme. [53226/19]

2019-12-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the engagement he has had with the eight local authorities that have seen a combined loss of revenue of €20.9 million arising from the revaluation of commercial rates to Irish Water; and if additional funding will be provided from within his Department to mitigate the loss of the revenue to the councils. [52148/19]

2019-12-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of the delivery of affordable homes to rent and buy in the Poolbeg strategic development zone, SDZ, the Clonburris SDZ and St. Michael's Estate, Inchicore, Dublin 8; the details of the financing of the schemes; and if the financing by his Department of the schemes will deliver affordable homes to purchase at less than €250,000 and affordable homes to rent at less than €900 per month. [52149/19]

2019-12-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he will consider introducing a one stop shop for homeowners who discover latent defects that would provide information, advice, mediation and adjudication to ensure that, in the first instance, the developer responsible for the defects covers the remediation. [51758/19]

2019-12-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of the summary of the 2019 social housing needs assessment. [51755/19]

2019-12-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the most up-to-date figures on the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme; the number of loans applied for; the number of loans approved; the number drawn down; and the average loan amount in the three categories. [51757/19]

2019-12-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the way in which he plans to fund the affordable cost-rental project in St Michael’s Estate, Inchicore, Dublin 8; and if the rents can be brought below €900 per month. [51756/19]

2019-12-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if the public sector benchmark exercise for bundle 1 of the PPP social housing scheme will be published. [51137/19]

2019-12-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the average unit price paid for social housing new builds, turnkeys and acquisitions for each scheme funded by his Department in 2018, in tabular form. [51168/19]

2019-12-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the original targets for housing schemes (details supplied) from the €70 million rolling fund; and the number of units delivered under each scheme to date in tabular form. [51373/19]

2019-12-03

VOTE

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government

✓ voted for the motion motion failed · 53–56

2019-11-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he is satisfied that fire safety regulations are up to date, especially in terms of multi-occupancy buildings such as student accommodation; and if guidelines have been issued as regards cladding. [48585/19]

2019-11-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of the ongoing EU Commission and European Court of Justice legal action against the State for breaches of the urban wastewater treatment directive. [47936/19]

2019-11-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government when the Moorhead report will be published; and when he plans to address the issue of the remuneration of councillors. [47353/19]

2019-11-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the Traveller accommodation allocations for each local authority for 2019; and the drawdown to date by each local authority in tabular form. [47471/19]

2019-11-19

VOTE

Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Bill 2019

A bill to provide for the regulation of approved housing bodies for the purposes of protecting certain housing assets provided or managed by such bodies; to establish a body to be known in the Irish language as An tUdaras Riala.Ia na gComhlachtai Tithiochta Faomhaithe or, in the English language, as the Approved Housing Bodies Regulatory Authority and to confer functions on it; to provide for the registration of certain persons as approved housing bodies; to provide for the setting of standards for approved housing bodies relating to governance, financial management, property and asset management and tenancy management and compliance with those standards; to provide for the carrying out of standards assessments and the monitoring of the implementation of compliance plans; to provide for the carrying out of investigations; to make provision in relation to the protection of approved housing bodies; to provide for the application, with modification, of certain provisions of the Companies Act 2014 to approved housing bodies; to provide for the cancellation of registration of approved housing bodies; to provide for the establishment of an Appeals Panel to hear appeals from certain decisions of the Approved Housing Bodies Regulatory Authority; for those purposes to amend the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1992; and to provide for related matters.

✓ voted to add an amendment to the bill motion failed · 2–3

2019-11-12

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the meetings he or his officials have had with Dublin City Council management or councillors since 7 October 2019 regarding a development (details supplied); and the additional funding requested and-or granted beyond the initial €10 million allocation from the serviced sites fund to assist an approved housing body acquire 30% of the units from a company for cost rental accommodation. [46540/19]

2019-11-06

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of vacant properties in counties Cavan and Monaghan in tabular form; and the existing or planned initiatives he intends to implement to assist local authorities in the counties to make vacant homes habitable. [45630/19]

2019-11-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the information he received regarding the failure of Irish Water and Fingal County Council to fully implement the recommendations of the March 2019 drinking water audit report relating to the Leixlip water treatment plant prior to the alum dosing incident that resulted in the issuing of a boil water notice for 615,539 persons on 21 October 2019; and the action he will take in view of the findings of the October 2019 Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, drinking water audit report regarding the Leixlip plant, which indicated the October boil water notice. [45363/19]

2019-11-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if the cause of the recent boil water notice at the Leixlip water treatment plant was the same as that discovered by the Environmental Protection Agency in March 2019. [45234/19]

2019-11-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans for the implementation of the recommendations of the expert group on Traveller accommodation published in July 2019. [45235/19]

2019-11-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of adults and children registered as homeless in each of the years 2016 to 2018 and to date in 2019, by local authority area in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45233/19]

2019-11-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he will reconsider his opposition to placing an obligation on platforms and letting agents to ensure all properties are complaint with new planning regulations in view of the low level of compliance with short-term letting regulations. [45236/19]

2019-11-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his views on the concerns raised in two letters to him by a person (details supplied) regarding a lack of resources available to the Residential Tenancies Board to implement and enforce the new regulations which came into force in July 2019 and the concern that the late fines for landlords that failed to register with the board were not high enough to act as a deterrent. [45237/19]

2019-11-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if a caravan rental or rent-to-buy scheme that will provide residential standard mobile homes for Travellers will be developed. [44344/19]

2019-11-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of the general scheme of the building control (construction industry register Ireland) Bill; and when he plans to publish the Bill. [44684/19]

2019-11-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if applicants for the Rebuilding Ireland home loan who have been refused the authorised mortgage protection insurance can avail of private insurance; and if so, the criteria for approval of such own sourced insurance. [45251/19]

2019-11-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of adults and children who exited homelessness in each of the years 2016 to 2018 and to date in 2019, by local authority area in tabular form [45318/19]

2019-11-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the average cost of emergency accommodation per night per household by local authority area in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45319/19]

2019-10-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of the introduction of an architectural technologists register; the legislation which will deal with the register; when the legislation will be introduced; and the timeframe for the operation of the register. [43020/19]

2019-10-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if the €40 million allocated under the budget 2020 allocation to families with pyrite affected homes will now be available to families in Dublin, north Leinster, County Mayo and Limerick city and county in addition to families with mica affected homes in County Donegal; if these are demand-led funding schemes; and if the budget will be substantially increased if necessary. [43522/19]

2019-10-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the detail of requests from local authorities for additional resources and staff to deal with the enforcement of the new short-term letting regulations; the amount granted to each local authority; and the date from which those resources can be drawn down, in tabular form. [42817/19]

2019-10-16

PQ

Asked Finance

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Finance the impact of spending on social housing being classified as investment rather than expenditure as part of the EU fiscal rules; and the engagements he has had with the European Commission or EU Council of Ministers to make the case for such a reclassification to assist the State in dealing with the ongoing housing crisis. [42390/19]

2019-10-16

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the engagement he or his officials have had with the European Commission on the general scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019; the nature, frequency and substance of this engagement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42389/19]

2019-10-16

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the details of the €27 million reduction to local government as detailed in budget 2020. [42483/19]

2019-10-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the details of the budget 2020 allocation to each programme or scheme within his Department. [42082/19]

2019-10-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if the ongoing revaluation of rateable properties taking place across many local authorities is planned to be revenue neutral for each local authority; if so, if a mechanism will be applied to ensure such councils return to a revenue neutral status in view of the fact that many successful appeals to the Valuation Tribunal have seen an aggregate loss of income to a number of local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42122/19]

2019-10-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of approved housing bodies that have tier 1 certified body status; the number given tier 1 certified body status in the past year; and the number awarded certified body status in the past year (details supplied). [40555/19]

2019-10-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if his Department has Part V targets for 2019, 2020 and 2021; and if so, the details of the targets for each of the years referenced. [40704/19]

2019-10-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he will include an ethnic identifier in the pathway accommodation and support system to include Travellers. [40713/19]

2019-10-01

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if the report into alleged planning irregularities in County Donegal will be published; and the action he plans to take arising from the contents of the report. [39599/19]

2019-10-01

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans to introduce regulations for a tenancy deposit protection scheme; and if his Department has commenced work on the development of such a scheme. [39727/19]

2019-10-01

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of the quality standards framework inspection regime for emergency homeless accommodation; and when the framework will be in place. [39788/19]

2019-10-01

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of the roll-out of choice based letting across all local authorities as per page 5 of the guidance document issued in December 2016 (details supplied). [39798/19]

2019-09-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of Rebuilding Ireland home loan applications by local authority; the number of such loans approved by each local authority; and the number of loans drawn down by each local authority to date in 2019, in tabular form. [39158/19]

2019-09-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the amount allocated to each local authority for rental property inspections to date in 2019; and the projected increase in funding for this purpose for 2020 and 2021. [38336/19]

2019-09-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the allocation to each local authority for estate management functions in 2018 and 2019. [38340/19]

2019-09-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the estimated cost in a full financial year of increasing the representational allowance for local councillors to €30,000, €35,000 and €40,000, respectively, per year. [38356/19]

2019-09-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans to hold a referendum on reducing the voting age to 16 years of age prior to or on the same day as the next general election; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38417/19]

2019-09-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the amount of pre-committed expenditure for the serviced site fund in 2020, 2021 and 2022. [38491/19]

2019-09-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if the budget 2019 announcement of an additional €300 million in the serviced site fund over three years is pre-committed expenditure in each of the years concerned or if it will be announced separately as part of each budget. [38492/19]

2019-09-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he will reconsider supporting the recommendations made in the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government report Safe as Houses which recommends establishing a latent defects redress scheme (details supplied) in view of recent revelations in the media that homeowners in counties Dublin and Kildare are facing costs to remedy latent defects uncovered in their properties. [37658/19]

2019-09-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the new homeless policy initiatives he will introduce to prevent the rise in homelessness in and outside Dublin in view of the fact that outside Dublin the number of adults in private emergency accommodation has increased from 40 in June 2014 to 1,200 in July 2019; and if he is considering allocating additional funding to specifically focus on preventing homelessness in Budget 2020. [37636/19]

2019-09-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the additional interventions he is considering such as increased service site fund allocations and longer loan maturities to ensure entry level rents for a site (details supplied) are at affordable levels of between €700 and €900 per month. [37635/19]

2019-09-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his views on the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, assessment concluding that the Ringsend water treatment plant is not big enough to properly treat all the wastewater that it receives; the conversations he has had with Irish Water on the recent discharges of large volumes of untreated sewage into Dublin Bay; the steps which will be taken to ensure that the State is not in further breach of the urban wastewater treatment directive due to these ongoing breaches; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37633/19]

2019-09-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of the review of wind farm planning regulations; when the new draft guidelines will be published; if there will be a public consultation on this issue; and when he plans to introduce new guidelines. [37634/19]

2019-09-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the contact he has had with local authorities regarding the implementation of the short-term letting regulations since 1 July 2019; and his views on the level of exemptions and planning applications to date. [37637/19]

2019-09-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if the improved funding scheme for onsite wastewater treatment systems that was announced in February 2019 is open for applications; and if circular letters have been issued to local authorities. [37244/19]

2019-09-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the steps he will take to ensure full compliance with the 2014 building control regulations in view of recent reports in the media (details supplied) that a defective housing estate in County Kildare built in 2017 was not BCAR compliant; if he or his officials have had contact with building control staff in Kildare County Council; if moving to a fully independent inspection and enforcement regime for building control as recommended in the report Safe As Houses by the Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government will be considered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37497/19]

2019-09-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that residents at a location (details supplied) in County Kildare have not been issued with copies of the BCAR certificates of compliance despite having requested same from Kildare County Council; and the steps he will take on behalf of the residents to ensure the council provides the documentation requested. [37498/19]

2019-09-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if a latent defects redress scheme will be considered, as outlined by the report, Safe As Houses, by the Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government and supported by an organisation to determine the extent of the latent defects problem in view of recent revelations in the media (details supplied) of more apartment developments with latent defects. [37499/19]

2019-09-06

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the amount paid each month during the period 30 January 2015 to June 2016 by the owners of a derelict site (details supplied) to Galway City Council in respect of the standard annual 3% levy on derelict sites; the amount paid each month during the same period by the owners in fines for non-compliance with notices to carry out works to render the property non-derelict; if the derelict site levy and fines are still being paid; the works carried out by the site owners to render the site non-derelict since the property was added to the derelict sites register; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34767/19]

2019-07-23

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his views on the determination by the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee that section 42(1)(a)(i) and (ii) of the Planning and Development Act 2000 does not meet the requirements of Article 6(10) of the Aarhus Convention; his plans to bring forward amending legislation to bring this section of the Act into line with the convention; and if he is satisfied that all planning legislation introduced since May 2016 is fully compliant with the Aarhus Convention. [31818/19]

2019-07-23

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 855 of 9 July 2019, the steps he is taking to ensure the full amount of the €13 million in funding available for Traveller accommodation for 2019 is drawn down by local authorities. [31973/19]

2019-07-23

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of RAS tenancies active on 1 June 2019 or the nearest possible date by local authority area. [32849/19]

2019-07-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government when the quarterly social housing pipeline report will be published; and if it will include Traveller accommodation. [30263/19]

2019-07-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if information (details supplied) will be provided in tabular form. [30275/19]

2019-07-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the steps he is taking to secure the reclassification of the approved housing body sector as off balance sheet; the number of meetings held by his officials; the number of meetings held with officials from the Department of Finance on the issue; the number of meetings his officials have had with the approved housing body sector since the EUROSTAT reclassification; and the details of these meetings by date and organisations met. [29343/19]

2019-07-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the funding allocation to each local authority for Traveller specific accommodation for 2019; and the spend in each local authority to date. [29896/19]

2019-07-02

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the social housing build and acquisition targets for 2020 and 2021. [27470/19]

2019-07-02

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his views on a report (details supplied) published by the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission which highlights the way in which the Workplace Relations Commission process cannot be the solution for dealing with discrimination against persons on housing benefits; and if further initiatives to deal with the problem will be examined. [27471/19]

2019-06-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of Housing First tenancies created and sustained in 2018; the housing first targets for 2019, 2020 and 2021; and the associated costs of funding one housing first tenancy in tabular form. [27206/19]

2019-06-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if his officials or the relevant State agencies have been consulted on a planning application by a company (details supplied) to build an underground gold and silver mine in west County Tyrone under EU transboundary environmental requirements. [26071/19]

2019-06-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 671 of 18 June 2019, if there has been a reduction in the initial allocation or diversion of a portion of the allocation to other projects in either his Department or other Departments (details supplied); if so, the amount being diverted; the Departments the funding is being diverted to; and the projects involved in this regard. [26539/19]

2019-06-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if the €93 million allocation to the capital assistance scheme, CAS, in budget 2019 is divided regionally; and if not, if it is allocated on a first-come-first-served basis. [26551/19]

2019-06-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his role in the funding and issuing of free Leap cards for homeless families; the estimated cost of providing free cards to families in emergency accommodation outside of school term time; and if free cards for homeless families will be extended to include non-term time. [26765/19]

2019-06-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if the report into alleged planning irregularities in County Donegal will be published; and the action he plans to take arising from the contents of the report. [24851/19]

2019-06-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he will initiate a report on the issue of spoilt ballots in view of the high level of spoilt votes in the 2019 local and European elections; and if so, if it will include a survey of all spoils (details supplied). [24852/19]

2019-06-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if a review of the co-living planning regulations will be conducted in view of the likely unintended consequences of such developments. [24880/19]

2019-06-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the capital assistance scheme, CAS, allocation for 2019 as agreed in budget 2019; the number of applications for CAS funding to date in 2019; the value of the applications; the number of approvals for CAS funding to date in 2019; the value of the applications; the amount of funding remaining from the initial CAS allocation for 2019; if AHBs can continue to make applications for the remainder of 2019; and if not, the reason therefore. [25420/19]

2019-06-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of applications for serviced sites funding; the locations and number of units in each application; the value of the applications; the number of applications approved; and the price range agreed with each local authority for the sale price of the properties. [25421/19]

2019-06-12

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the way in which the planning guidelines and regulations for build-to-rent apartments and co-living developments differ from standard multi-unit apartment developments; and the guidance being given to local authorities and An Bord Pleanála on planning applications for build-to-rent and co-living developments, or both. [24532/19]

2019-06-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the price range for affordable housing projects to be delivered under the serviced sites fund with respect to the various initiatives on affordable housing; the rents to be charged on the cost rental projects to be delivered in 2019 and 2020; and when a second tranche of funding will be provided to local authorities for the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme. [24274/19]

2019-06-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans to include a clear target date for the phasing out of both oil and gas boilers as part of the NZEB planning guidelines due to be published. [23891/19]

2019-06-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government when the inspections of private and voluntary emergency homeless accommodation will commence; the person or body that will carry out the inspections; the number of providers that will be inspected in 2019; if there are targets for achieving 100% inspections; and when he will introduce a fully independent inspection regime. [23889/19]

2019-06-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of the talks between Irish Water, trade unions and his Department on the creation of a single utility for water services. [23892/19]

2019-06-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his views on the key recommendations of the report of the Ombudsman for Children on children’s experiences of family hubs; and the recommendations from the report he plans to pursue. [23893/19]

2019-06-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the protections he will put in place to prevent co-living accommodation developments from becoming high cost, low quality accommodation for low income families or the most socially disadvantaged. [23890/19]

2019-06-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of additional staff he has provided to councils to enforce the new short-term letting planning regulations which come into effect on 1 July 2019. [23737/19]

2019-05-30

VOTE

Housing (Adaptation Grant for People with a Disability) Bill 2018

A bill to make provision for ease of access to a housing adaptation grant for people with a disability for those applicants qualifying for same and to provide for related matters.

✗ voted against Amendment again put: motion failed · 32–65

2019-05-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the borrowing amount authorised for each local authority for the second tranche of the Rebuilding Ireland home loan in tabular form. [21613/19]

2019-05-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the exits and preventions of the 5,100 households (details supplied) that exited emergency accommodation into HAP properties in 2018. [21619/19]

2019-05-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the average cost of providing a Traveller specific accommodation unit funded via the local authority Traveller accommodation programme in 2018. [21625/19]

2019-05-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of Traveller accommodation units delivered in 2017 and 2018; and the average cost of these units. [21626/19]

2019-05-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the average cost of delivering a social housing unit through the buy and renew scheme in 2018. [21627/19]

2019-05-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the amount allocated to each local authority for rental property inspections in 2018 and 2019; and the projected increase in funding for this purpose for 2020, 2021 and 2022. [21628/19]

2019-05-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the amount of funding allocated and drawn down for housing adaptation grants in each local authority in 2018 and to date in 2019; and the projected increase in funding for this purpose for 2020, 2021 and 2022. [21629/19]

2019-05-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the funding provided to local authorities for the purposes of energy efficiency retrofitting of social housing stock in each of the years 2016 to 2018 and to date in 2019. [21846/19]

2019-05-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of the review of planning exemptions for solar panels; and when he expects the review to be published. [21847/19]

2019-05-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of Rebuilding Ireland home loans drawn down in each local authority area at the end of the first quarter of 2019, in tabular form. [21920/19]

2019-05-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of homes brought into use in the first quarter of 2019 via the repair and lease scheme. [21921/19]

2019-05-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of homes brought into use in the first quarter of 2019 via the buy and renew scheme. [21922/19]

2019-05-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of homes acquired via the Housing Agency in the first quarter of 2019; and the average cost of each unit. [21923/19]

2019-05-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the Traveller accommodation allocations for each local authority for 2019; and the drawdown for the first quarter of 2019 for each local authority in tabular form. [21924/19]

2019-04-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the rationale for setting a 35% of net income threshold in his draft affordable housing regulations; and the way in which this relates to the 22% of net income threshold when determining Rebuilding Ireland home loan mortgages. [17990/19]

2019-04-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he will amend the eligibility criteria of his draft affordable housing regulations to ensure that applicants who have been forced to live outside the local authority area in which their centre of interest is due to high housing costs will not be excluded from applying for affordable housing in that local authority due to the fact that at the time of application they are not resident in that county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17991/19]

2019-04-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government when the AHB special purpose vehicle being set up for the purpose of accessing credit union finance will be operational; and the efforts he is making to assist the AHB sector in setting up this vehicle. [17992/19]

2019-04-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the average annual cost per unit of the availability agreement payment to AHBs for each category of such availability agreement for each year since these agreements have been in place; and the number of such units and total costs of such units for each year each category of availability agreement has been in operation in tabular form. [17993/19]

2019-04-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the measure for inflation used in the calculation of the public sector benchmark for the first bundle of public private partnership social housing agreed in March 2019. [17035/19]

2019-04-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if there was a risk adjustment included in the public sector benchmark exercise for the social housing PPP contract signed in March 2019. [17048/19]

2019-04-11

VOTE

Building the Housing of the Future · 5 divisions

✗ voted against the motion the motion motion failed · 56–60
✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion failed · 3–111
✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion failed · 18–98
✓ voted to add an amendment to the bill motion failed · 26–92
✗ voted against Amendment again put: motion failed · 45–74

2019-04-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of AHB PandA agreements commenced in 2018; the average length of the agreements; the average cost of these agreements; and the details of all costs covered in the monthly availability agreement payment. [16887/19]

2019-04-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the details of all costs covered by the monthly availability payment to a consortium (details supplied) for the first tranche of 534 PPP social houses. [16888/19]

2019-04-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if the public sector benchmark exercised conducted to ensure value for money in the awarding of contracts to public private contracts to consortia for the delivery of the first tranche of social housing awarded in March 2019 to a company (details supplied) will be published. [16898/19]

2019-04-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government to outline the reason for the significant variance in the cost of the management and maintenance in the first tranche of social housing public private partnership, PPP, programme bundle contract compared with similar projects being delivered by an approved housing body or a local authority; and his plans to review these costs before further social housing PPP contracts are entered into. [16709/19]

2019-04-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his views on the significant increase in the number of institutional investors in the residential property market and the impact this is having on security of tenure and affordability; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16413/19]

2019-04-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his views on the ongoing delay in bringing forward the quality standards and inspection regime for emergency homeless accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16410/19]

2019-04-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his views on the fact that 12,474 rental properties have been lost to the private rental sector since January 2017; and the steps he will take to address this disorderly exit of rental properties from the market. [16409/19]

2019-04-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he will reconsider his opposition to establishing a latent defects redress fund in view of media reports in relation to another development (details supplied). [16411/19]

2019-04-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the position regarding entry-level rents for cost-rental projects (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16412/19]

2019-04-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the average cost of one, two, three and four bedroom local authority new-build apartments on the basis of costings submitted by local authorities over the past 12 months; the details of all costs and construction-only costs; and the itemised costed list of the individual non-construction costs for each unit size. [16508/19]

2019-04-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the average cost of one, two, three and four bedroomed local authority new-build units on the basis of costings submitted by local authorities over the past 12 months; the details of all costs and construction-only costs; and the itemised costed list of the individual non-construction costs for each unit size. [16509/19]

2019-04-04

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans to publish the annual breakdown of expenditure on homeless services for 2018; and the reason for the delay in the publication of this report. [15802/19]

2019-03-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of households that had HAP payments ceased due to arrears; the average length of time the households were in arrears before payment was ceased; the average rent owed by households at the time rent was ceased in each of the years since the scheme was introduced; the steps taken by local authorities to address the arrears issue while maintaining the tenancy; and the guidance provided to both a centre (details supplied) and the local authorities to deal with such arrears while at the same time sustaining the tenant. [14556/19]

2019-03-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if an application will be considered for funding from South Dublin County Council to purchase land (details supplied) in order to increase the volume of social and affordable housing in the SDZ. [14625/19]

2019-03-27

PQ

Asked Finance

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Finance the full cost of the social housing units leased from the National Asset Residential Property Services, NARPS; the cost of the initial loans purchased by NAMA; the cost of purchasing the units by NARPS; and the full length and cost of the leases. [14429/19]

2019-03-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the full cost of the first tranche of PPP social housing units the contract for which was signed with Comhairle in March 2019; the full cost of the contract over the lifetime of the PPP; the cost of the monthly availability agreement paid to Comhairle; the cost per unit of accommodation provided; and the way in which these costs compare to the public sector benchmarking exercise carried out by DCC, the NDF and his Department in advance of the tendering process. [14335/19]

2019-03-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of council properties in each category of BER rating; and the estimated cost to bring each of the categories of property up to a BER A rating in tabular form. [14432/19]

2019-03-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he is restricting Meath County Council from issuing Rebuilding Ireland home loans that have been assessed by the council and the Housing Agency and recommended for approval such as in the case of a person (details supplied). [12824/19]

2019-03-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the local authorities that have been notified that they have reached their limit in loan approvals under the initial allocation of Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme funding; the instructions given to councils regarding pending and new applications; and when he will make an announcement on whether additional funding beyond the initial €200 million will be made available to the scheme. [12825/19]

2019-03-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of supported temporary accommodation facilities funded by each lead authority; the service provider in each case; the number of beds in each facility; and the gender of the clientele at the end of 2018. [12835/19]

2019-03-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of tenant purchase sales approved in each year since 2000, in tabular form. [12847/19]

2019-03-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his views on the revelations made in the media on 10 March 2019 (details supplied) relating to fire safety standards; and if proposals will be brought forward in order to update the fire safety regulations. [12947/19]

2019-03-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the progress of the Shanganagh Castle social and affordable housing development; the position of the project within the four-stage approval process; if the NDFA review has been completed; if so, the outcome of the review; and his plans to include the project in the social housing construction pipeline funded through the SHIP funding stream. [13181/19]

2019-03-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of households that exited emergency accommodation in each of the years 2016 to 2018; the number of homeless preventions in each of the years 2016 to 2018, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13228/19]

2019-03-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if the quarterly social housing construction pipeline report will include Traveller-specific accommodation from the next report; and when the report will be published. [13442/19]

2019-03-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the rationale behind basing officers from the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service in offices of a homeless agency in Dublin further to a media report on 3 March 2019 (details supplied); and the role these officers will undertake in this location daily. [12564/19]

2019-03-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of the response of his Department to the letter of formal notice sent in July 2018 from the EU Commission for failing to fulfil its obligations under the drinking water directive (Council Directive 98/83/EC) and allowing exceedance of the parametric value for trihalomethanes. [10255/19]

2019-03-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of units funded under the social housing current expenditure programme, SHCEP, at the end of 2018, in tabular form; the number of units that will end in the ownership of an approved housing body, AHB, or local authority; the annual cost of these leases in 2018; the number of units that will remain in the ownership of private interests; and the annual cost of these leases in 2018. [10498/19]

2019-03-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the original targets for housing schemes; and the number of units delivered under each scheme to date in tabular form (details supplied) [10556/19]

2019-03-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the type of leases used in SHCEP leases of privately owned units; the length of time of the lease or range of times in use; if the leases allow the owner to withdraw from the lease before its due date; if so the grounds for same; whether the leases include an option to buy; and if so, the point at which such options can be included. [10575/19]

2019-03-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of social housing current expenditure programme, SHCEP, leases brought on stream each year since the funding schemes inception by those units permanently in private ownership and those that will end up in the ownership of local authorities and approved housing bodies; and the annual cost of each category of lease. [10576/19]

2019-03-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of Rebuilding Ireland home loans drawn down in each local authority area at the end of 2018, in tabular form. [10610/19]

2019-03-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans to raise the threshold for the single stage approval process for social housing from €2 million to €7 million; if such a proposal is consistent with the public spending code; the engagement his Department has had with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform on the matter; and if this proposal was agreed as part of the pre-budget 2019 negotiations. [10687/19]

2019-03-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the Rebuilding Ireland home loan budget allocated to each local authority in 2018; the drawdown of these budgets by local authorities in 2018; and the allocations for this loan scheme to each local authority in 2019, in tabular form. [10815/19]

2019-03-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the allegations that Meath County Council paid moneys to a company (details supplied) for work carried out by another company from the 2008 and 2009 period that subsequently led to a Garda investigation and resulted in a conviction in relation to fraud; if his Department has carried out an examination of the circumstances which led to this instance; if he is satisfied that Meath County Council and all other local authorities have updated procedures to ensure that a similar case does not reoccur; if he is satisfied that Meath County Council has ensured that the moneys due have now been recouped from the company and that the company which carried out the works has been paid for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10860/19]

2019-02-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of the review of the income thresholds for social housing eligibility; and the timeline for the completion of the review and the possible introduction of new thresholds. [10045/19]

2019-02-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if the Rebuilding Ireland target for new house construction is as detailed in page 47 of the Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness (details supplied) and which is repeated on the Rebuilding Ireland website in the pillar 3 section of the site; and the reason he claimed during Other Questions on 20 February 2019 that the target in Rebuilding Ireland is for housing supply to increase to 25,000 in 2020. [9787/19]

2019-02-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the level and value of funding provided to local councils in gross terms as a percentage of GNI; the level as a percentage of GDP; and the EU 15 and EU 28 averages of state funding to local councils as a percentage of GDP. [9862/19]

2019-02-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government when a MICA redress scheme will be introduced for affected homeowners in County Donegal. [8776/19]

2019-02-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government when the new affordable housing scheme will be published; the income limits of the new scheme; the local authorities which will be using the scheme; when it will be available for applications; the targets for the number of affordable rental and affordable purchase homes to be delivered in 2019, 2020 and 2021; and the number of such homes to be delivered in the Ringsend SDZ and the various pathfinder sites across Dublin city and county. [8670/19]

2019-02-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his views on the Central Statistics Office, CSO, house build completion data for 2018; and the steps he is taking to ensure house building targets for 2019 are reached in view of the fact the 2018 figures show that they were 40% below target for 2018. [8454/19]

2019-02-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the efforts being made to have approved housing bodies reclassified as off balance sheet. [8453/19]

2019-02-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the rationale for the 44% underspend in the Traveller accommodation budget for 2018; and the efforts he is making to ensure there is a 100% draw-down of funding by local authorities in 2019. [8452/19]

2019-02-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of the reform of water services including the creation of a single utility and a referendum to enshrine water in public ownership. [8451/19]

2019-02-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of the quality standards framework inspection regime for emergency homeless accommodation; and when the framework will be in place. [8450/19]

2019-02-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the details of the recently initiated infringement proceedings by the EU Commission against Ireland for breaches of the water framework directive; the nature of the infringements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8525/19]

2019-02-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he is considering or has decided to suspend the social housing applicant file for five years for persons who have refused two offers of accommodation; and if so, the basis on which this decision was made. [8548/19]

2019-02-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the level of funding within the Local Government Fund in each of the years 1999 to 2018, in tabular form; and the details of each component of the funding in gross and percentage terms. [8650/19]

2019-02-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the level of funding to the Local Government Fund in each of the years 1999 to 2018, in tabular form; and the details of gross increases or decreases in funding and the real terms percentage expression of year-on-year increase and decrease. [8651/19]

2019-02-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the funding provided to local government by funding from the Local Government Fund, commercial rates and other sources of funding in both gross and percentage terms. [8652/19]

2019-02-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of standard and priority allocations refused by social housing applicants for each local authority in 2017 and 2018; and if the figures will be provided as a percentage of total allocations for each council. [7907/19]

2019-02-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government when he plans to publish the annual local authority homelessness financial reports for 2018. [8340/19]

2019-02-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the Traveller accommodation allocations for each local authority for 2018; and the drawdown to date for each local authority in tabular form. [8361/19]

2019-02-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of the 2,610 social housing acquisitions in 2018 that were purchased vacant; and the number purchased with social housing tenants in situ. [8362/19]

2019-02-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of the 560 voids included in the 2018 social housing output figures, which were vacant for more than six months. [8363/19]

2019-02-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of housing assistance payment, HAP, rental accommodation scheme, RAS, and social housing current expenditure programme, SHCEP, tenancies at the end of 2018; and the cost per scheme in that year in tabular form. [8374/19]

2019-02-12

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the actions he has taken to remedy the five grounds of the European Social Charter violated by Ireland in terms of the provision of Traveller accommodation highlighted by the European Committee of Social Rights in May 2016; and his views on the recent monitoring report by the committee published on 23 January 2019 that found that Ireland has failed to redress the violations and is still out of conformity with the charter. [6628/19]

2019-02-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the reason there were 2,002 PEA beds and 2,162 STA beds occupied in November 2018, while in December 2018, the PEA beds had decreased by 877 to 1,125 and the STA beds increased by 876 to 3,038. [6106/19]

2019-02-06

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government when the regulations for the new affordable housing scheme will be enacted; and the way in which the scheme will work. [5781/19]

2019-02-06

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the full costs of a project (details supplied) in Dublin 22; and his plans for the future of the scheme. [5817/19]

2019-02-06

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the BER ratings of the local authority stock in the 31 local authorities nationally in tabular form. [5852/19]

2019-02-06

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the amount it costs to upgrade the BER rating of local authority homes in tabular form (details supplied). [5853/19]

2019-02-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans to introduce a latent defects redress scheme to help those living in badly built properties bought during the Celtic tiger period (details supplied). [5098/19]

2019-02-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if there is a requirement on An Bord Pleanála to publish applications on its website which detail the student accommodation providers of 200 bed spaces or more seeking planning permission. [5099/19]

2019-02-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government when the housing supply and demand report will be published. [5110/19]

2019-02-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the names of the persons appointed to the board of the Land Development Agency; the process by which they were appointed; and the measures put in place to ensure there are no conflicts of interest for the members of the board that have business or financial interests in land, commercial property or residential property development. [5347/19]

2019-01-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the funding allocated toward the repair and refurbishment of local authority housing in Budgets 2016 to 2019; the amount allocated specifically toward energy retrofit works; the amount spent by each local authority on energy retrofit works for local authority housing stock in each of the years 2016 to 2018; if funds allocated to local authorities for energy retrofit were unspent; and if so, the amount. [3717/19]

2019-01-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of local authority homes that will be targeted for energy retrofitting per year with the roll-out of phase 2 of the retrofitting programme for social housing stock. [4147/19]

2019-01-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of new housing applicants that have come onto local authority housing lists on an annual basis in each of the past three years; and if he will direct the Housing Agency to include these data in the summary of housing needs assessment in 2019 and all future years. [2670/19]

2019-01-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if consideration is being given to the idea of a housing list passport as suggested in the Social Housing Strategy 2020 to allow persons to move from one local authority area to another for specified reasons (details supplied) without losing their time on the housing list. [2671/19]

2019-01-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government when he will publish the report into alleged planning malpractice in Donegal County Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2672/19]

2019-01-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of casual vacancies relet by local authorities each year since 2014, in tabular form. [2754/19]

2019-01-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the procedure by which local authorities may amend their differential rent scheme; and if it is an executive or reserve function. [2821/19]

2019-01-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 253 of 16 January 2019, the percentage of new buildings that have an A2 energy rating as required by the nearly zero energy building standard requirements; the percentage of public buildings owned and leased by the State that are fully compliant with the standard requirements as of the end of 2018; the mechanism by which compliance with the building standards and EU legal requirements is monitored; and his views on whether the State is compliant with the standard requirements. [2934/19]

2019-01-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the breakdown by each local authority and by year of the 250 homes brought back into use via the buy and renew scheme. [3089/19]

2019-01-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the breakdown by each local authority and by year of the 48 homes brought back into use and tenanted under the repair and lease scheme. [3090/19]

2019-01-16

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he will provide a progress report on the efforts to meet near zero energy building requirements in 2018; if all public buildings, whether owned or leased by the State, are now fully compliant with the relevant EU directive; if not, the level of compliance; when full compliance will be achieved; the measures implemented and that will be implemented to ensure compliance with the directive's targets for 2020; the method for tracking the reduction in carbon energy consumption in residential and commercial properties; and if there are interim targets for the reduction in carbon emissions from residential and commercial buildings from the current level of approximately 30% of all carbon emissions. [1841/19]

2019-01-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the steps he will take to increase the delivery of both social housing new builds and affordable private market homes for 2019 (details supplied). [1627/19]

2019-01-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of rapid build properties constructed under Rebuilding Ireland to date; the number tenanted to date; the number of properties delivered to date via the vacant housing funds including the rolling €70 million allocated to the Housing Agency, the repair and lease scheme and the buy and renew scheme; and the reason there is such a large gap between the targets set in 2016 and delivery to date. [1433/19]

2019-01-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of his amendments to the 35th Amendment of the Constitution (Water in Public Ownership) Bill 2016; and if a referendum on this issue will be held in 2019. [1435/19]

2019-01-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of Housing First tenancies created in each of the years 2016, 2017 and 2018; the target for 2019; and the rationale for the regional targets for 2019. [1436/19]

2019-01-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his views on the recommendation of an institute (details supplied) that rent pressure zones should be extended nationwide; his plans to remove the exemption for new properties and those that have not been let for two years; and if the zones will be extended when the deadline arrives at the end of 2019. [1437/19]

2019-01-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he will recall the housing consultative committee data subgroup to undertake a review of the monthly homeless report to review the methodology used in the production of the reports; and if the Departments of Justice and Equality, Children and Youth Affairs and Tusla will be included to determine the best way to capture the homeless households in accommodation funded by those Departments in the monthly figures. [1434/19]

2019-01-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of Rebuilding Ireland home loan applications by local authority; the number of such loans approved by each local authority; and the number of loans drawn down by each local authority in 2018, in tabular form. [1154/19]

2018-12-12

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if a housing provider is required to issue notices to quit in cases in which homeless persons or persons who have been homeless have licence agreements in emergency, transitional or own door accommodation that due to the length of time of the license risk accruing tenancy rights, placing the persons at risk of further homelessness; and if so, if changes to regulations or legislative amendments made in the forthcoming residential tenancies (amendment) Bill to ensure that no resident in emergency, transitional and own door accommodation will not be issued with a notice to quit in cases in which they are unable to find permanent accommodation. [52309/18]

2018-12-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the interest rate and maturity of a loan (details supplied) secured for the cost rental housing project at a location in Dublin 8; and if the loan will be for the construction of just the cost rental units or all units, that is, social rental and cost rental in the development. [51573/18]

2018-12-06

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans to include Traveller-specific accommodation developments in the quarterly social housing construction pipeline report. [51252/18]

2018-12-04

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 630 of 27 November 2018, if the specification set out in the request for tenders for temporary modular accommodation for homeless families will be fully compliant with the Technical Guidance Document B – Fire Safety of Part B of the Building Regulations for such buildings; if the use of the word aligned in the reply represents dispensation or relaxation from the standards set out in Technical Guidance B - Fire Safety; and if the technical specifications set out in the request for tenders for temporary modular accommodation require the use of non-combustible insulation. [50472/18]

2018-12-04

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of HAP transfers to local authority and AHB housing by local authority for each year the scheme has been in operation in that local authority in tabular form. [50534/18]

2018-12-04

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of homes purchased under the tenant scheme by local authority area; the number of homes sold at each discount level, that is, 40%, 50% and 60%, respectively; and the average sale price to tenants in each local authority for each of the discount levels in tabular form. [50535/18]

2018-12-04

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 632 of 27 November 2018, if a specific proposal to amend the rules of the CALF funding stream to allow AHBs to provide cost rental accommodation was considered by his Department in the context of budget 2019; if it was proposed to Fianna Fáil during the budget negotiations; and the reason this proposal was not included in budget 2019 alongside the serviced sites fund to ensure that a greater volume of affordable rental accommodation could be provided alongside the affordable purchase housing that would be funded by the serviced sites fund. [50536/18]

2018-12-04

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if the actions in pillar one of Rebuilding Ireland will be updated in order to reflect the additional identified needs of children experiencing homelessness with particular regard to their educational needs. [50621/18]

2018-12-04

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if the homeless inter-agency group will be expanded to include representatives from the Department of Education and Skills. [50622/18]

2018-12-04

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he will consider ending the practice of self-accommodation for homeless families with children. [50623/18]

2018-12-04

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the timeline for the end of use of hotels and bed and breakfasts as emergency accommodation. [50624/18]

2018-12-04

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if regulations will be introduced to ensure that families with children should not be in emergency accommodation for longer than six months; and if in conjunction with the monthly homeless report the type of emergency accommodation and the length of time families spend there will be published. [50625/18]

2018-12-04

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans to locate future emergency accommodation locations close to family resource centres. [50626/18]

2018-12-04

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if regulations will be introduced to ensure that homeless families and dependent children are not spending longer than six months in emergency accommodation. [50627/18]

2018-12-04

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of the quality standards framework inspection regime for emergency homeless accommodation; and when the framework will be in place. [50628/18]

2018-12-04

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of the delivery of the 550 affordable homes at a location (details supplied) in Dublin 2. [50745/18]

2018-11-29

VOTE

Social Housing Bill 2016

A bill to amend the Planning and Development Act 2000 to provide for an increased percentage of social and affordable housing in private residential developments and in strategic development zones

✓ voted to progress the bill whether the bill should proceed (Second Stage) motion passed · 76–44

2018-11-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the way in which leased Part V units operate in terms of funding, management and ownership; the number of leased Part V units by local authority; and the annual cost of leased Part V units in each year since the introduction of this funding method to date in 2018. [49806/18]

2018-11-27

PQ

Asked Finance

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Finance if the social housing construction commitments in the National Development Plan 2018 to 2027 are accounted for in the general Government balance in each of the years concerned. [48891/18]

2018-11-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the spending commitment for social housing targets in the national development plan in total and by each year of the plan. [48892/18]

2018-11-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the projected average unit cost of a new social housing unit to rent or to buy in each of the years 2020 to 2024. [48893/18]

2018-11-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the projected average unit cost of a buy and renew unit in each of the years 2020 to 2024. [48894/18]

2018-11-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the projected average unit cost of a housing unit constructed under a scheme (details supplied) in each of the years 2020 to 2024. [48895/18]

2018-11-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans to combat the online advertisement of lettings that contravene Housing (Standards for Rented Houses) Regulations or legislation relating to overcrowding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49379/18]

2018-11-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 260 of 21 November 2018, his definition of a dispensation or relaxation of the building regulations for the proposed temporary modular homes; if such a dispensation or relaxation of standards will include fire safety, insulation or energy efficiency standards; and the reason he would allow a dispensation or relaxation of these regulations to British standards or industry standards which are lower than and thus inferior to the standards that apply here. [49468/18]

2018-11-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 243 of 21 November 2018, and further to his statement that he has no plans to extend the capital advance and leasing facility, CALF, loans to approved housing bodies, AHBs, for the purposes of developing cost rental accommodation, if there have been discussions of such a change to CALF within his Department, between his Department and other Departments and-or between his office and that of other Ministers in the context of the ongoing review of Rebuilding Ireland, the budget 2019 preparations and-or the ongoing confidence and supply talks with Fianna Fáil. [49475/18]

2018-11-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if the rules will be amended for the granting of the capital advance leasing facility, CALF, for approved housing bodies to include the provision of cost rental accommodation. [48534/18]

2018-11-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if the technical specifications for the proposed new modular build hub clusters will not meet BCAR standards; the areas the technical specifications for these proposed modular build hubs will be allowed to deviate from building regulations and standards; and the rationale for these permissible deviations. [48644/18]

2018-11-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the contingency plans in place to deal with the impact of Brexit on the housing crisis; the number of meetings held by his officials in the past 12 months to prepare for this issue; and the number of meetings between staff of his Department, other Departments, State agencies and other organisations during the past 12 months to prepare for this issue. [47788/18]

2018-11-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of Rebuilding Ireland home loan applications by local authority; the number of such loans approved by each local authority; and the number of loans drawn down by each local authority by quarter in 2018, in tabular form. [47800/18]

2018-11-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he will confirm claims (details supplied) published on his Department's website; and the data on which these claims are based. [48171/18]

2018-11-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of local authority loans paid out in quarter 3 of 2018 by local authority; and the number of such loans paid out to date in 2018, by local authority in tabular form. [47510/18]

2018-11-15

VOTE

Housing Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2018

A bill to, in the public interest, serve the common good in the matter of housing.

✓ voted to progress the bill whether the bill should proceed (Second Stage) motion failed · 47–79

2018-11-14

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the additional measures that can be put in place on a permanent basis to ensure that all persons sleeping rough or at risk of sleeping rough have access to safe, secure, accessible and appropriate emergency accommodation in view of the recent tragic deaths on streets of persons engaged with homeless services. [47335/18]

2018-11-14

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of Irish Water moving towards a single utility; the reason for the separation of Irish Water from a company (details supplied); and the further status of the plan to enshrine public ownership of water services in the Constitution. [47149/18]

2018-11-14

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government when he plans to bring forward the legislative changes to the rental sector as indicated in budget 2019; the additional resources that will be provided to the Residential Tenancies Board, RTB, to operate these new powers; and if a review will be conducted of the rent pressure zone measures. [47150/18]

2018-11-14

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of the roll-out of the serviced sites fund for affordable housing; the number of affordable units that will be delivered in 2019; when an affordable housing scheme statutory instrument will be provided to councils; and when local authorities will be in a position to accept applications for affordable housing. [47147/18]

2018-11-14

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of his commitment to bring students living in student-specific accommodation under the protection of the Residential Tenancies Acts; and the status of his work with the Department of Education and Skills on this matter. [47148/18]

2018-11-14

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of his plans to regulate the short-term letting sector; and if short-term letting providers will be liable for commercial rates and-or water charges post successful application for planning permission for the purpose of short-term letting. [47151/18]

2018-11-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government when he plans to publish the findings of the Mulcahy report. [46502/18]

2018-11-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if the one-stage approval process for local authority social housing is now available for developments up to the value of €7 million; and the way in which this process works. [46573/18]

2018-11-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if categories of properties (details supplied) are liable for commercial water charges. [46592/18]

2018-11-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of social homes to be delivered per year from 2022 up to the end of the National Development Plan 2018-2027 by build, acquired and leased, respectively. [46628/18]

2018-11-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of the quality standards framework inspection regime for emergency homeless accommodation; and when the framework will be in place. [46790/18]

2018-11-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of the ECJ case against Ireland for failure to meet its obligations under the terms of the urban wastewater treatment directive; if he will report on the recent ECJ court hearing; when the court will make its decision; and the contingency plans in place to cover the cost of possible fines and possible requirements to increase capital investment and or speed up capital investment in addressing those waste water treatment plans that do not meet the requirements of the directive. [46835/18]

2018-11-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of the work of the working group on rural planning guidelines; when he expects the work of the group to conclude; and when he expects to be in a position to engage with the Houses of the Oireachtas and local authorities on new guidelines for county development plans post the 2019 local government elections to provide guidance on this issue. [46836/18]

2018-11-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of adults and children recorded on the pathway accommodation and support system, PASS, as in own door accommodation. [47189/18]

2018-11-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of buy and renew units delivered to date in 2018; and the average cost for each unit. [46002/18]

2018-11-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of homes brought into use to date in 2018 via the repair and lease scheme; and the average cost of each unit. [46003/18]

2018-11-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of units delivered to date in 2018 via the Housing Agency’s €70 million rolling Housing Agency fund; and the average cost for each unit. [46004/18]

2018-11-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of Rebuilding Ireland home loan applications by local authority area to date in 2018; the number of approvals and drawdowns, respectively, by local authority area; the average loan amount awarded in each local authority area in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46005/18]

2018-11-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the Traveller accommodation allocations for each local authority for 2018; and the drawdown to date for each local authority in tabular form. [46006/18]

2018-11-06

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he has given further consideration to the Convention on the Constitution recommendations regarding citizens' initiatives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44761/18]

2018-11-06

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if a company (details supplied) has been awarded contracts for social housing projects funded by his Department in the past ten years; and if so, if he will now request an inspection of these units in view of the issues arising at schools constructed by this company. [44838/18]

2018-11-06

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the details of all proposed social housing leasing and enhanced leasing projects; and the details of potential leasing or enhanced leasing projects such as pending applications for planning permission to which his attention has been drawn. [45111/18]

2018-11-06

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Irish Water has for the second time in 2018 refused to meet with a cross-party delegation of public representatives from County Donegal in relation to concerns they have regarding the water supply network in the north-east Inishowen area and the south Inishowen area; his views on these refusals; and if he will correspond with Irish Water in relation to the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45130/18]

2018-11-06

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of the ongoing EU Commission and European Court of Justice legal action against the State for breaches of the urban waste water treatment directive. [45181/18]

2018-11-06

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the estimated cost involved in remedying the wastewater treatment services in the 28 large towns and cities in which wastewater treatment failed to meet mandatory standards according to the EPA urban wastewater treatment in 2017 and that are the subject to European Court of Justice proceedings for breaching these requirements. [45182/18]

2018-11-06

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the allocation in capital funding for each local authority for the provision of extensions to council dwellings for 2017, 2018 and 2019, in tabular form. [45265/18]

2018-10-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of the review of the income eligibility limits for social housing. [44038/18]

2018-10-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of the review on the tenant purchase scheme. [44039/18]

2018-10-23

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the cost and funding stream being used for the 20 units of social housing in an area (details supplied); the funding used for refurbishment, capital purchase or long-term lease; if the properties are being funded via the social housing current expenditure programme; if they will remain in private ownership; and if they will be acquired by the State via lease to purchase. [43379/18]

2018-10-23

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of social housing current expenditure programme, SCHEP, funded properties by approved housing body, AHB, build (details supplied) in tabular form; and the details for the SCHEP-funded properties targeted with funding in budget 2019. [43495/18]

2018-10-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of the provision of affordable housing on the Poolbeg SDZ site; the steps he will take in terms of funding and schemes to ensure the delivery of the affordable housing as approved by Dublin City Council; and if there is a timeframe for the commencement and completion of the affordable homes on the site. [43081/18]

2018-10-17

PQ

Asked Justice

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the steps he has taken to prevent the ending of the direct provision contract at a hotel (details supplied); the reason a company is withdrawing from this contract; the contingency plans which will be put in place to provide appropriate alternative accommodation for the 150 adults and children without leave to remain living in the hotel should the contract come to an end; and the contact he has had with the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government to put in place contingency plans for the 80 adults and children who have leave to remain and are at risk of homelessness should the contract end in December 2018. [42653/18]

2018-10-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he will publish his Department's annual reviews of the building control amendment regulations; and the outcomes or recommended reforms that have been proposed or implemented as a result of these reviews. [42577/18]

2018-10-16

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the social housing output targets for 2019 by delivery stream including build, Part V, refurbishment, void, acquisition, long-term leasing, RAS and HAP as revised following budget 2019. [42297/18]

2018-10-16

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the 2019 capital and current expenditure votes by scheme within each Vote heading, that is, housing, water services, local government, planning, Met Éireann and administrations; and if he will provide a comparison with the comparable figure for 2018. [42298/18]

2018-10-16

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the rationale of programme expenditure F, appropriations-in -aid, as detailed on page 209 of the budget 2019 expenditure report.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42299/18]

2018-10-16

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the way in which the serviced sites fund scheme will work; the way in which the equity stake and the clawback will operate; the kinds of schemes he expects this funding trio to be drawn down against; the amounts being made available to local authorities in 2019 to 2022, inclusive; when the first round of applications will be decided upon; and when a second call for funding applications will be opened. [42300/18]

2018-10-16

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the way in which the 4,800 SHCEP funded homes listed on page115 of the budget 2019 expenditure report related to the other targets for build, acquisition, long-term leasing, RAS and HAP detailed in pages 114 and 115 of the report. [42301/18]

2018-10-16

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he will publish his Department's annual reviews of the building control amendment regulations; and the outcomes or recommended reforms that have been proposed or implemented as a result of these reviews. [42484/18]

2018-10-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if the capital spend in 2019 will be rolled over if the €75 million allocation for the serviced sites fund is unspent in 2018. [41601/18]

2018-10-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if his Department or agencies on his Department's behalf have been engaging with the owner or manager of a direct provision hostel (details supplied) for the purposes of that location being used at a future date for emergency accommodation, a family hub or other housing related accommodation; and if so, if this was carried out with the knowledge of the Department of Justice and Equality that has a contract via the Reception and Integration Agency, RIA, with the owners and managers of the property for the provision of direct provision accommodation. [41668/18]

2018-10-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the detail of the recent changes to the mortgage to rent scheme. [40785/18]

2018-10-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the Rebuilding Ireland social housing targets for 2018 to 2021 by local authority for build and acquisition but excluding leasing, in tabular form. [40943/18]

2018-10-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of leased social housing units under the SCHEP and related programmes for the most recent date available by local authority, in tabular form. [40944/18]

2018-10-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the changes he plans to make to the rules underpinning and operation of the rent pressure zones arising from the Review of Rent Predictability Measure - Final Report. [41011/18]

2018-10-04

VOTE

Housing

✓ voted for the motion motion passed · 83–43

2018-10-02

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of local infrastucture housing activation fund, LIHAF, contracts in circumstances in which the land and planning permission are being sold to a third party that was not party to the original LIHAF contract with the local authority. [39762/18]

2018-10-02

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of RAS tenancies active on 1 September 2018, by local authority area. [39992/18]

2018-09-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he will work with South Dublin County Council to ensure that the residential development at Kilcarbery-Grange includes cost rental and affordable purchase homes in addition to social housing; and if a similar funding model to that approved for St. Michael's Estate in Dublin city will be explored to ensure that the development of the Kilcarbery-Grange meets the need for social and affordable housing. [39282/18]

2018-09-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government why only 529 properties out of 3,967 offered to the Housing Agency for purchase have been acquired to date; and the reason the vacant homes strategy published over the summer contains no targets or new funding allocations to ensure the maximum return to the housing stock of vacant homes across the State. [39020/18]

2018-09-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government when he will introduce a State-wide affordable housing scheme for local authorities; and the reason the €75 million allocated for Ó Cualann type affordable housing developments has not been made available to local authorities. [39021/18]

2018-09-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of the work on assisting credit unions to provide lending for the purposes of building social housing; and the reason, almost a year after the approval of such lending, no progress has been made to date on this matter. [39017/18]

2018-09-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of his Department's attempt to secure the reclassification of AHBs as off-Government balance sheet. [39018/18]

2018-09-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the financing arrangements envisioned in the delivery of social, affordable and market-priced housing on the first eight sites to be developed by the Land Development Agency. [39019/18]

2018-09-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if AHBs are charged development levies by local authorities for social housing new build units; and if so, the amount of levies paid into each local authority in each of the years 2014 to 2017 and to date in 2018, in tabular form. [39124/18]

2018-09-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if traditional seaweed harvesters must now register by 2019 in order to retain their seaweed licence; and if so, his plans to roll-out an information campaign to raise awareness of this new requirement. [38351/18]

2018-09-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the timetable for the holding of referendums agreed on 26 September 2017 relating to voting at 16 and extending the franchise at presidential elections; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38634/18]

2018-09-25

VOTE

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government

✓ voted for the motion motion failed · 49–59

2018-09-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of the establishment of a permanent electoral commission as committed to in the programme for partnership Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38092/18]

2018-09-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of rental properties nationally that have been sanctioned for overcrowding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38093/18]

2018-09-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of scoping exercises by his Department on reform of the voter registration process including online voter registration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38094/18]

2018-09-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans to facilitate councillors to take six months maternity leave without a sanction for non-attendance by their local authority; his further plans to amend section 18(4)(a) of the Local Government Act 2001 in the near future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38095/18]

2018-09-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans to collate or mandate a public body to collate voter turnout statistics by demographic particularly by age to improve voter accessibility and information as collated by the CSO until 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38096/18]

2018-09-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the details of all purpose-built student accommodation complexes opened in the past 12 months nationally; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38097/18]

2018-09-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government when the Land Development Agency was set up; if he will provide statistical information (details supplied) relating to the agency; and the mechanism to be used to provide a legal basis to the agency. [37894/18]

2018-09-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the regulations or guidelines in place governing consumer protection and standards for residential log cabins both at the point of sale and the point of assembly and construction. [37637/18]

2018-09-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if the proposed mixed tenure housing developments in locations (details supplied) will be provided with revenue funding, loan finance from the Housing Finance Agency or the European Investment Bank, or a combination of both. [37327/18]

2018-09-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the allocation and spend of the Traveller accommodation budget of each local authority from the inception of the programme through to 2008, in tabular form. [37634/18]

2018-09-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the increases in staff in council housing departments approved and funded by council in each of the years 2014 to 2017 and to date in 2018, in tabular form. [37635/18]

2018-09-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the regulations or guidelines in place governing standards for residential log cabins both at the point of sale and the point of assembly and construction. [37636/18]

2018-09-07

PQ

Asked Finance

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Finance the status of work with the credit unions and the approved housing bodies on the establishment of a special purpose vehicle to facilitate the delivery of social housing. [36300/18]

2018-09-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the full-year pay cost of senior positions (details supplied) in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35419/18]

2018-09-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the reason Leap cards are only being given to homeless families during school terms despite the fact that many of the families in emergency accommodation are placed in hotels and hubs far from their family and support networks and have the same travel requirements during school holidays as during term time; and if he will reconsider this policy. [35632/18]

2018-09-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the allocation to each local authority for estate management functions in 2017 and 2018. [35416/18]

2018-09-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the amount allocated to each local authority for rental property inspections in 2017 and 2018; and the projected increase in funding for this purpose for 2019, 2020 and 2021. [35418/18]

2018-09-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he will issue a circular to all local authorities instructing them to provide free access to council sports and leisure services for persons placed in emergency accommodation in their administrative areas. [35633/18]

2018-09-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of work with the credit unions and the approved housing bodies on the establishment of a special purpose vehicle to facilitate the delivery of social housing. [36299/18]

2018-09-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of the reclassification of approved housing bodies; and the work being undertaken to remove approved housing bodies from the balance sheet. [36301/18]

2018-09-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if the policy of not allowing carer's allowance to be taken into account as earned income for the purposes of the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme will be reviewed on the grounds that carers are effectively working full-time caring for their family members. [36330/18]

2018-09-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of the acquisition of vacant homes by the Housing Agency using its €70 million fund and other resources available to it; the number of properties offered to the State for purchase from 2016 to 2017 and to date in 2018; the number of offers made by the agency for vacant homes; the number of bids accepted; the number of contracts signed; the number of properties sold on to approved housing bodies; the average cost of these homes; the number of properties that previously had their loans secured by NAMA; and the number of these properties that were previously offered for purchase to local authorities or other State agencies. [36333/18]

2018-07-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of active RAS tenancies by local authority area for the most recent month available in tabular form. [32595/18]

2018-07-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the expected social housing output for 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021, by type of build, acquisition, leasing, RAS and HAP. [32685/18]

2018-07-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 952 of 10 July 2018, if he has requested additional work to be undertaken on the issue of assisting householders whose homes are unable to secure a green certificate due to the presence of pyrite but which are not included in the remediation scheme. [33642/18]

2018-07-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government when members of the fire and rescue service across the State will receive 1916 commemorative medals. [33779/18]

2018-07-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if a response will issue to the proposal from an association (details supplied) to establish an expert review panel to extend the retirement age of retained firefighters. [33780/18]

2018-07-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the targets for the delivery of social housing by build, acquisition, leasing, RAS and HAP for 2018, 2019, 2021 and 2022. [34643/18]

2018-07-12

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the legislative framework for local authority decisions on setting and reviewing differential rents; his plans to enact the provisions of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014 amending the mechanisms for local authorities setting and reviewing differential rents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31948/18]

2018-07-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of the quality standards framework inspection regime for emergency homeless accommodation; and when the framework will be in place. [31197/18]

2018-07-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the allocation of funding for social housing and the draw down by local authorities for social housing in each of the years 2000 to 2018, inclusive, by local authority in tabular form. [31601/18]

2018-07-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if lands or properties vested in wholly owned subsidiary incorporated bodies of local authorities in which the chief executive is the sole shareholder should be included in the register of fixed assets of that local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30404/18]

2018-07-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if lands or properties vested in wholly owned subsidiary incorporated bodies of local authorities in cases in which the chief executive is the sole shareholder have been duly entered in the register of fixed assets for each local authority will be investigated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30405/18]

2018-07-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the action he will to take to ensure lands or properties vested in wholly owned subsidiary incorporated bodies of local authorities in which the chief executive is the sole shareholder have been duly entered on the register of fixed assets for each local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30406/18]

2018-07-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the allocation of Traveller specific accommodation funding to each local authority; and the value of the drawdown of that funding by each local authority for each of the years 2008 to 2018. [30907/18]

2018-07-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of the ongoing work to address the issue of securing green certs or a form of certification for homes affected by pyrite but without structural damage. [30908/18]

2018-07-10

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the expenditure within his Department by project or funding headline for 2016, 2017 and to date in 2018. [30909/18]

2018-07-04

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the targets for social and affordable housing in each of the years 2018 to 2027; and the estimated capital spending targets required to deliver the social and affordable housing targets for the same period in tabular form. [29563/18]

2018-07-03

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of buy and renew units delivered in past 12 months; and the average cost for each unit. [28876/18]

2018-07-03

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the details of the €70 million rolling Housing Agency fund; the number of units delivered in the past 12 months; and the average cost for each unit. [28877/18]

2018-07-03

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of Traveller specific units of accommodation delivered in the past 12 months; and the average cost for each unit. [28878/18]

2018-07-03

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the cost per unit of a development (details supplied). [28879/18]

2018-07-03

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government further Parliamentary Question No. 1590 of 17 April 2018, the status of the report of the working group on short-term lets submitted to his Department; and when a targeted public consultation will be initiated on its proposals. [28909/18]

2018-07-03

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of Rebuilding Ireland home loan applications by local authority area; the number of approvals and drawdowns, respectively, by local authority area; and the average loan amount awarded in each local authority area in tabular form. [29165/18]

2018-07-03

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the Traveller accommodation allocations for each local authority for 2018; and the drawdown to date for each local authority in tabular form. [29319/18]

2018-06-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the timeline for the review of the European Parliament seat and boundary review; if there is further consideration or amendment of the recently published review of the local government boundaries; and if the publication of that report constitutes the official enactment of the new local electoral area boundaries. [27612/18]

2018-06-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the gross voted capital expenditure for his Department in 2017 and 2018 by function, that is, housing, water, local government, planning and Met Éireann, in tabular form. [27676/18]

2018-06-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the details of the 875 persons removed from the March and April 2018 homeless report by local authority and by family type in tabular form; the detail of the accommodation arrangements for each of these families at the time they were removed from the homeless figures; and the reason for this removal. [27979/18]

2018-06-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the legislative measures and-or ministerial guidelines that are in place to ensure that the ownership of council lands cannot be placed permanently outside the control of the elected members of that council through a previous disposal of such lands to a wholly owned subsidiary of the council with the chief executive as its sole shareholder and operating as a special purpose vehicle for the private commercial development of such lands and thereby ensuring that such lands cannot be used in the provision of social housing by the council or by approved housing bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28067/18]

2018-06-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the process by which a council may through the use of section 183 of the Local Government Act 2001 divest its ownership of council lands and transfer such lands to a wholly owned subsidiary of the council with the chief executive as its sole shareholder; if such a disposal to a wholly owned subsidiary of the council is considered a full disposal of the council’s interest in such lands and therefore placing such lands outside the reach of Government policy and ministerial directives in respect of the use of publicly owned lands for the provision of social and affordable housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28068/18]

2018-06-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the name, responsibilities and salaries of all advisers appointed by him since July 2017, in tabular form. [27197/18]

2018-06-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of Rebuilding Ireland home loans approved; the number of loans drawn down; the average loan approved; the amount approved; the draw down; and the number of loan applications rejected in each of the months since the scheme was introduced in tabular form. [27198/18]

2018-06-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of the delivery of cost rental and affordable purchase housing schemes. [26825/18]

2018-06-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of the appointment of a special expert group to review the legislation on Traveller accommodation. [26818/18]

2018-06-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the response to the European Court of Justice legal action regarding the breaches of the urban wastewater treatment directive; the status of ongoing discussions with the European Commission and the Council on the revised drinking water directive; and his views on the possibility of additional European Court of Justice action for breaches of the existing drinking water directive. [26819/18]

2018-06-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if a social and affordable public housing scheme will be publicly funded at locations (details supplied). [26815/18]

2018-06-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his views on whether those who bought their homes at the height of the boom and later discovered significant latent defects should be left to pay the cost of remediation. [26817/18]

2018-06-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of the quality standards and inspection regime for all emergency accommodation. [26816/18]

2018-06-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of Part 8 local authority social housing units that have been built in counties Longford and Westmeath in 2016, 2017 and to date in 2018, in tabular form. [26348/18]

2018-06-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the position regarding plans to regulate the short-term letting sector. [26526/18]

2018-06-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of his plans to secure the reclassification of approved housing bodies, AHBs, as non-Government sector; the details of all meetings held with the AHB sector; the details of all meetings with the Department of Finance; his plans to reverse the recent EUROSTAT reclassification of the AHB sector; and if it is policy to secure the reclassification without undermining the voluntary and not for profit ethos of the AHB sector. [26527/18]

2018-06-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of the work of the data working group and its plans to produce an agreed methodology for counting new home construction. [26528/18]

2018-06-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the average cost of social housing units delivered in 2017 by schemes (details supplied) in tabular form. [26669/18]

2018-06-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the capital allocation for 2018 for schemes (details supplied) in tabular form. [26670/18]

2018-06-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of homes brought into use in 2016 and 2017 under the repair and lease and the buy and renew schemes, in tabular form; the expenditure in each year for each scheme; the number of homes acquired via the Housing Agency in 2017 and to date in 2018; and the cost of these houses in each of these years. [26696/18]

2018-06-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of Part V units delivered in each local authority area in 2017, in tabular form; and the average cost of those units in each area. [26697/18]

2018-06-14

VOTE

Housing · 3 divisions

✓ voted for the motion the motion motion failed · 39–71
✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion failed · 36–72
✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion failed · 35–76

2018-06-12

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government when the first two recommendations from the report of the expert panel on concrete blocks in counties Donegal and Mayo will be implemented; and when a redress scheme for the affected families will be introduced. [24772/18]

2018-06-12

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the estimated annual cost if the existing subsidy to domestic group and private well water users covered the full operating costs of providing water for domestic use. [25222/18]

2018-05-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the spend on the pyrite remediation scheme for each year since its introduction; the number of units remediated in each year; and the estimated future costs for homes approved for the scheme but at which work has not yet taken place. [23637/18]

2018-05-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of housing units brought into social housing use via NAMA by year and local authority; the number by local authority purchase, approved housing body purchase and narrows lease; the annual cost each year to secure these units for social housing use; the estimated future annual costs arising from these units that are part of ongoing leasing arrangements; and the length of time these leases are expected to continue. [23638/18]

2018-05-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the legislative measures and-or public procurement guidelines in place to ensure that public funds and the ownership of State or council lands used in the provision of social housing built or acquired by approved housing bodies is secured for the State or local authority and-or is recoverable in the event of the insolvency and-or winding up of an approved housing body; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22901/18]

2018-05-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the measures in place during the scheme assessment process to ensure that the provision of affordable housing by local authorities or approved housing bodies on council or State owned lands does not unfairly compete on unit sale price with private sector investment in the supply of affordable housing under the local infrastructure housing activation fund schemes throughout the country in a manner that may deter or delay further private sector investment in such; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22902/18]

2018-05-23

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the details of new voters on the supplementary register by local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22760/18]

2018-05-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if a directive will be issued to Wicklow County Council within the prescribed 40-day timeline to bring Bray's 2018 local area plan into line with the now mandatory 2009 planning system and flood risk management guidelines. [22285/18]

2018-05-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government when members of the fire and rescue service across the State will receive 1916 commemorative medals. [22366/18]

2018-05-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the amount of funding allocated to local authorities for disability grants, mobility grants and adaptation grants in each of the years 2006 to 2017, inclusive, in tabular form. [22535/18]

2018-05-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the amount of funding allocated to local authorities under the improvement works in lieu of housing scheme in each of the years 2006 to 2017, inclusive, in tabular form. [22536/18]

2018-05-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the amount of funding allocated to local authorities under the extensions to local authority housing scheme in each of the years 2006 to 2017, inclusive, in tabular form. [22537/18]

2018-05-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the details of the complaints made to media organisations, voluntary sector organisations or other organisations or persons regarding unfavourable or critical comment or coverage since he was appointed in tabular form. [21812/18]

2018-05-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the meetings held between him, his departmental officials and a company (details supplied) regarding its affordable housing proposal; if details of proposals made directly to him regarding the delivery of affordable housing will be published; and the subsidies requested by or offered to the company, for example, State land, access to the capital advanced leasing facility, CALF, funding and so on. [21813/18]

2018-05-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the local authorities whose initial homeless figures for March 2018 were amended; the number of families removed from the initial figures; the number of adults and children included in these families; and the type of temporary or permanent accommodation arrangements for the families by each local authority in tabular form. [21814/18]

2018-05-17

VOTE

Affordable Housing · 3 divisions

✗ voted against the motion the motion motion failed · 39–79
✓ voted to add an amendment to the bill motion failed · 36–75
✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion failed · 38–73

2018-05-16

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the average cost of one, two, three and four bedroom local authority new build apartments on the basis of costings submitted to his Department by local authorities over the past 12 months; the details of all costs and construction only costs; and the itemised costed list of the individual non-construction costs for each unit size. [21507/18]

2018-05-16

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the average cost of one, two, three and four bedroomed local authority new build units on the basis of costings submitted by local authorities over the past 12 months; the details of all in costs and construction only costs; and the itemised costed list of the individual non-construction costs for each unit size. [21568/18]

2018-05-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of recipients of the housing assistance and homeless housing assistance payments by area and household income at the time of entry to the scheme at 12 and 24 months in the scheme as appropriate. [20922/18]

2018-05-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of the development of five-year strategic plans by each housing and disability steering group. [21322/18]

2018-05-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of assessments of housing needs which were carried out with disabled persons in each local authority area since the publication of the National Housing Strategy for People with a Disability 2011-2016. [21323/18]

2018-05-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of units of accommodation which have been provided for persons with disabilities since the publication of the National Housing Strategy for People with a Disability 2011-2016 based on assessments of housing needs carried out by each local authority. [21324/18]

2018-05-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the local authorities which have undertaken awareness raising campaigns with private landlords and letting agents regarding renting to persons with disabilities as per action 1.3.2 of the national implementation framework of the National Housing Strategy for People with a Disability 2011–2016. [21325/18]

2018-05-09

PQ

Asked Finance

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Finance if his Department has engaged consultants, other outside bodies or persons to conduct research, provide advice or assistance on the issue of the recent EUROSTAT designation of approved housing bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20342/18]

2018-05-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of the 600 persons which he claimed on 30 April 2018 in a Departmental press release had been miscategorised as homeless by local authorities that had tenancy agreements at the time of the alleged miscategorisation; and the number that were in short-term ad hoc accommodation arrangements provided by local authorities and or the Dublin Regional Homeless Executive. [20227/18]

2018-05-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if his Department has engaged consultants, other outside bodies or persons to conduct research, provide advice or assistance on the issue of the recent EUROSTAT designation of approved housing bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20343/18]

2018-05-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the councils that miscategorised persons in monthly homeless reports; the months on which persons were wrongly included; the number of persons in each of these months in this regard; when the persons were removed; the reason his Department did not catch this earlier; the adjusted figures for each month in which there was a miscategorisation; if the March 2018 figures contain a real increase or decrease on previous months based on the adjusted figures; and if he will continue to publish the figures on a monthly basis. [19984/18]

2018-05-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the reason 428 fewer real social houses, that is, units owned by local authorities and approved housing bodies, were delivered in 2018 than were delivered in 2017 and his views on whether this drop indicates a problem with the speed and scale of real social housing delivery, particularly within the local authority sector. [19985/18]

2018-05-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of the water abstraction licensing regime legislation as required by the water framework directive. [19785/18]

2018-05-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of the appointment of an expert group to review the legislation underpinning the Traveller accommodation programmes. [19787/18]

2018-05-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of homes priced between €170,000 and €280,000 that will be delivered under the local infrastructure housing activation fund, LIHAF. [19786/18]

2018-05-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of work to reverse the EUROSTAT decision to redesignate approved housing bodies as part of the Government sector. [19784/18]

2018-05-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the way in which he plans to spend the €25 million fund for affordable housing announced in budget 2018. [19783/18]

2018-05-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he will address issues (details supplied) regarding the miscategorisation of persons in local authority homeless figures. [19742/18]

2018-05-03

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if his Department will continue to publish monthly homeless figures; and his plans to amend this to quarterly or other less frequent publications. [19459/18]

2018-05-01

PQ

Asked Children

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she has sought clarification as to whether all family hubs funded by the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government have child protection policies in place (details supplied); and if all staff are Garda vetted. [18687/18]

2018-05-01

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 604 and 605 of 24 April 2018, the number of exits from homelessness in 2017 to local authority housing, approved housing bodies and the private rental sector by preventative interventions and exits from emergency accommodation for individuals and households, respectively, in tabular form. [18866/18]

2018-05-01

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the position regarding plans to regulate the short-term lettings sector; and when same will be published. [19124/18]

2018-05-01

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government when the water abstraction legislation as required by the water framework directive will be published. [19125/18]

2018-04-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the amount of outstanding funds from housing capital claim forms owed to local authorities as of 1 April 2018, by local authority area. [18440/18]

2018-04-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of new housing first tenancies created in 2017; the number of housing first tenancies created in the first quarter of 2018; and the number of housing first tenancies in operation by local authority area and by region. [18249/18]

2018-04-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if the proposed working group examining the impact of the EUROSTAT reclassification of tier 3 AHBs to become part of the local government subsector has been established and met; his plans to engage with the AHB sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17858/18]

2018-04-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of households that have exited section 10 funded homeless accommodation in 2017; and the housing tenures to which they have exited. [17532/18]

2018-04-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of homeless HAP tenancies created in 2017; the number of these used to prevent homelessness; and the number used to support persons and families to exit section 10 funded homeless accommodation. [17531/18]

2018-04-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the funding allocated for and drawn down by all local authorities for Traveller accommodation in the first quarter of 2018, in tabular form. [17586/18]

2018-04-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if all homeless households (details supplied) are being counted in the figures published monthly by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17818/18]

2018-04-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of the national quality standards framework and inspection regime for homeless services. [16083/18]

2018-04-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of adults, families and children who spent time in emergency homeless accommodation in 2017; and the average length of time spent in emergency accommodation for individuals and families, respectively. [16084/18]

2018-04-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of homeless families living in commercial hotels in each month from January 2017 to March 2018, in tabular form. [16086/18]

2018-04-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of the work of the short-term letting working group; the number of meetings held by the group; the number of meetings held with third parties; the organisations and individuals in this regard; and when he will bring forward regulations or legislation on the issue of short-term lets. [16087/18]

2018-04-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government to explain the reason for the delay in publishing the revised local authority social housing construction targets; if they will be published; and, if so, when they will be published. [16455/18]

2018-04-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government to outline the reason for the delay in publishing the reports by the Housing Agency and his Department regarding construction sector costs; if both reports will be published; and, if so, when they will be published. [16456/18]

2018-04-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government to explain the reason for the delay in publishing the quarter 1 2018 social housing construction pipeline report; if this report will be published; and if so, when it will be published. [16457/18]

2018-04-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government to outline the status of the establishment of the expert group on the Traveller accommodation programmes. [16458/18]

2018-04-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government to set out the criteria used by his Department and local authorities to determine if applicants for the local infrastructure housing activation fund, LIHAF, required the funding from a project activation point of view; and if some of the projects awarded funding in the final 30 contracts would have proceeded in a similar timeframe without LIHAF funding. [16459/18]

2018-03-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the basis on which the target of 500 Part V units was set for 2018; and the details of the targets by each local authority area. [14117/18]

2018-03-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he will meet with a cross-party delegation from the Inishowen Municipal District of Donegal County Council to discuss Government funding for the rebuilding of Swan Park, Buncrana, County Donegal destroyed by the August 2017 floods along with the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Minister of State for Gaeilge, Gaeltacht and the islands. [13291/18]

2018-03-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he will address a series of matters relating to the enhanced leasing scheme (details supplied). [12008/18]

2018-03-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if a redress scheme for families with homes affected by mica defective concrete blocks in County Donegal and by pyrite in County Mayo will be introduced. [13063/18]

2018-03-20

PQ

Asked Children

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the percentage of pupils in non-DEIS schools that have come from DEIS feeder schools will be considered when changes or future funding allocations to the schools completion programme are being made; if issues such as rent supplement and housing assistance dependency in private housing estates will be taken into account; the location of direct provision centres; the levels of homelessness within the non-DEIS schools catchment areas; and the non-DEIS schools enrolment numbers. [12905/18]

2018-03-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 717 of 27 February 2018, the estimated cost to the Exchequer in a full financial year of increasing the representational allowance for local councillors (details supplied). [11976/18]

2018-03-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he will report on the implementation of the Programme for Partnership Government commitments in respect of local government reform (details supplied); and if he will further report on the possible devolution of new powers to local authorities and the establishment of town and borough councils. [12003/18]

2018-03-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if SI 679/2011 - Housing (Tenant Purchase of Apartments) Regulations 2011 is still active and available to local authorities and council tenants to avail of; and if he will examine a series of matters relating to same (details supplied). [12245/18]

2018-03-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if approved housing bodies are reclassified by Eurostat; the level of new departmental oversight this reclassification will lead to; and if his Department will have oversight over issues such as funding and staffing approval. [10952/18]

2018-03-08

VOTE

Provision of Cost-Rental Public Housing

✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion failed · 41–81

2018-02-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of the commitment made on page 53 of Rebuilding Ireland to create a special purpose vehicle, involving investors including the credit union movement, to fund the delivery of social and affordable homes by the approved body sector. [9768/18]

2018-02-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his views on whether the first tranche of 500 public private partnership social houses to be delivered under Rebuilding Ireland will represent value for money and will not contain the type of contractual problems evidenced following the collapse of a company (details supplied). [9687/18]

2018-02-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government when he pans to bring forward regulations for the short-term letting sector. [9684/18]

2018-02-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of houses available at prices below €280,000 across the State on sites benefiting from LIHAF. [9685/18]

2018-02-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of the ongoing EU Commission and EU Court of Justice legal action against the State for breaches of the urban waste water treatment directive. [9686/18]

2018-02-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his views on the 45% underspend by local authorities on Traveller accommodation in 2017; and the steps he has taken in 2017 to address same. [9688/18]

2018-02-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the estimated cost to the Exchequer in a full financial year of increasing the representational allowance for local councillors from €16,565 to €25,000. [9532/18]

2018-02-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the cost of the local councillors representational allowance and the local councillors annual allowance for each of the years 2011 to 2018. [9531/18]

2018-02-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government when the proposed local authority remuneration group will be established; if this group will have an independent chairperson appointed; and if the group will report back in time for recommendations to be implemented ahead of the 2019 local elections. [9545/18]

2018-02-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government further to parliamentary Question No. 611 of 20 February 2018, the extent of the area of the County Clare coastline that is under consideration to be included in the proposed harvesting licence. [9672/18]

2018-02-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of the programme for Government commitment to explore the possibility of enacting a constitutional right to housing; and the way in which the programme for Government commitment to allow the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government to examine the issue affected by the decision to request the Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform and Taoiseach to examine the broader issues of socio-economic rights decided upon by the Citizens' Assembly. [9051/18]

2018-02-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the spend on urban regeneration in each year since 2011; and the amount allocated for 2018, in tabular form. [9172/18]

2018-02-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if the €2 billion urban regeneration fund announced as part of the NDP additional to the €11.6 billion announced in the NDP for social housing is planned to fund housing projects or other regeneration activities; and if so, the list of potential activities to be funded with this allocation. [9173/18]

2018-02-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the type of social housing units that the NDP plans to deliver out to 2027, that is, the number of the 112,000 units that will be owned by local authorities, approved housing bodies, leased from the private sector and short-term rental accommodation scheme, RAS, or housing assistance payment, HAP, tenancies, respectively. [9174/18]

2018-02-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the timeframe for the establishment of the national regeneration and development agency; the estimated cost to establish and run this agency; the estimated staff complement of the agency; and the powers he will transfer to this agency. [9175/18]

2018-02-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if mortgage protection insurance is a mandatory requirement of the new first-time buyers council mortgage; if so, the reason therefor; and the nature of the policies required. [8121/18]

2018-02-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 660 of 13 February 2018, the County Clare coastline that could potentially be affected by plans to sell the harvesting rights of kelp disk seaweed to a company (details supplied) in percentage terms. [8771/18]

2018-02-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the estimated cost of retrofitting all local authority owned housing stock to ensure that all homes have double glazed windows, draft proof doors and are properly insulated. [7894/18]

2018-02-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 1971 of 11 September 2017, the status of plans to sell the harvesting rights of kelp disk seaweed to a company (details supplied); if this deal has already gone through; and the way in which it will affect the County Clare coastline. [6708/18]

2018-02-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he will initiate a meeting between the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, the chairperson of the board of Horse Racing Ireland and the chief executive of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council with a view to releasing an unused vacant site (details supplied) to the local authority for the provision of mixed tenure, social and affordable housing. [7198/18]

2018-02-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the procedure to put the national planning framework on a statutory footing; if the final document will be presented to the Houses of the Oireachtas for a debate and vote; and if there will be an opportunity for the Houses of the Oireachtas to amend the document. [6572/18]

2018-02-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the amount of funding allocated for, and drawn down by, all local authorities for Traveller accommodation in 2017, in tabular form. [6169/18]

2018-02-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the details of the proposed merger and relocation of the State agencies (details supplied) to his Department. [6256/18]

2018-02-06

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of the framework document on housing for older persons currently being developed by his Department; the number of officials working on this paper; the number of times this working group has met; the third party stakeholders consulted by the group as part of its work; and when the framework document will be completed and published. [5589/18]

2018-02-06

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the legal position for homeowners who wish to sell their homes and who have not paid the domestic water charge, in view of the abolition of domestic water charges in 2017. [5745/18]

2018-02-01

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he or officials in his Department have played a part or have attempted to interfere, limit or prevent voluntary sector organisations funded by his Department from engaging in advocacy work on behalf of their service users; if he or his officials would seek to or have sought to prevent voluntary sector organisations funded by his Department from being critical of Government policy; his views on an article (details supplied) that uncovered attempts by the Dublin Region Homeless Executive to insert a gagging order into service level agreements with voluntary sector organisations funded by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5278/18]

2018-02-01

VOTE

Affordable Housing · 5 divisions

✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion failed · 38–93
✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion failed · 49–82
✓ voted for the motion the motion motion failed · 40–85
✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion failed · 14–118
✓ voted to add an amendment to the bill motion failed · 41–89

2018-01-31

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the actions he has taken since the broadcast of a programme (details supplied) in November 2017; his plans to amend the legal definition of "overcrowding"; his further plans to make it an offence to advertise substandard rental properties including on social media; if increased targets for local authority inspection will be brought forward; and the status of plans for a standard certification system for landlords. [4855/18]

2018-01-31

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans for the €25 million affordable housing fund; the details of his announcement of local authorities taking out an equity stake in affordable housing developments; the location in which the announced 3,000 affordable homes are to be located; and when construction will commence. [4586/18]

2018-01-31

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of the proposed national quality standards framework for emergency accommodation; the ongoing inspections of private and voluntary sector emergency accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4585/18]

2018-01-31

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of the 1,757 voids returned to stock in 2017 that had a tenant at the beginning of 2017. [4583/18]

2018-01-31

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of the report held by his Department on allegations of planning corruption on County Donegal; when this report will be published; and the actions he plans to take arising from the report. [4587/18]

2018-01-31

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of units to be developed in schemes benefitting from LIHAF; and the number of these units that will be sold in ranges (details supplied) by Dublin and outside Dublin respectively. [4584/18]

2018-01-30

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of new local authority first-time buyer loans issued in 2017; and the value of these loans. [3975/18]

2018-01-30

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the annual general funding allocation paid to Longford and Westmeath county councils in each of the years 2012 to 2017, in tabular form. [4462/18]

2018-01-30

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of persons claiming HAP in counties Westmeath and Longford. [4466/18]

2018-01-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown of the 9,113 voids, derelicts and two into ones that have been delivered under the voids programme by length of time vacant (details supplied). [3615/18]

2018-01-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown of the 9,113 voids, derelicts and two into ones that have been delivered under the voids programme that cost amounts (details supplied). [3616/18]

2018-01-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the average cost per unit of the first tranche of 500 social housing units to be delivered through public private partnerships under Rebuilding Ireland; the length of time over which this cost is to be paid down; the public service benchmarking exercise underpinning the agreement; and when the five separate developments will commence. [3617/18]

2018-01-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of houses to be delivered in housing developments benefitting from LIHAF funding that will cost in ranges (details supplied). [3618/18]

2018-01-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of the working group on short-term letting; when he plans to bring forward legislation or regulations for the sector; and the content of those regulations and-or legislation. [3619/18]

2018-01-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of the work of the cost rental expert group; the membership of same; the number of times it has met; and the nature of the work to date of this group. [3620/18]

2018-01-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of a report received by his Department on allegations of planning corruption in County Donegal; when he will publish the report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3621/18]

2018-01-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if his Department has communicated to Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council its plan to fund a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3622/18]

2018-01-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of the delivery of affordable housing on the Poolbeg SDZ site. [3623/18]

2018-01-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of repair and leasing units and buy and renew units delivered to date. [3624/18]

2018-01-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of social housing acquisitions for Q3 and Q4 2017, by local authority. [3625/18]

2018-01-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans to put the new substantial refurbishment guidelines for the private sector on a statutory footing. [3626/18]

2018-01-23

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of additional emergency accommodation beds made available in the emergency accommodation system in Dublin city and county between November and December 2017; and if these beds will remain in the system after the cold winter initiative ends. [2937/18]

2018-01-23

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the hectarage of land owned by local authorities and zoned for residential development; and the number of hectares by local authority. [3048/18]

2018-01-16

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he has concluded his negotiations with a group (details supplied) on the issue of increasing the subventions to the schemes; and if so, his plans to include the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government in this discussion prior to finalising changes to the existing scheme. [54477/17]

2018-01-16

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the stock of social housing in each of the years 2010 to 2017, by local authority; and the stock owned by local authorities and approved housing bodies respectively, in tabular form. [54642/17]

2018-01-16

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the impact that reclassification of tier 3 approved housing bodies as on the Government balance sheet in early 2018 would have on the Government debt, Government expenditure and capital spending plans in each of the years 2018 to 2021 and social housing construction and acquisition targets in each of the years 2018 to 2021; the contingency plans the Government has in place to deal with such a reclassification in early 2018 in particular to ensure that such an eventuality does not disrupt the supply of new social housing by Approved Housing Bodies, AHBs, in each of the years 2018 to 2020; and the plans the Government has in place to see a reversal of such reclassification if Eurostat accepts the Central Statistics Office, CSO, recommendation to designate AHBs and Government entities. [55284/17]

2017-12-14

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government further to Question No. 520 of 14 November 2017, if he will consider amending section 239 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 to include bike parks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53537/17]

2017-12-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if local authorities can include charges for maintenance such as boiler servicing within the overall calculation of differential rent; and if so, the legislation under which such additional charges are permitted. [53398/17]

2017-12-12

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he plans to conduct a review or plans revisions to the local government boundaries or distribution of seats within existing boundaries in advance of the 2019 local government elections. [52704/17]

2017-12-12

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 520 of 5 December 2017, the number of housing first tenancies in existence prior to the launch of Rebuilding Ireland in July 2016; and the number of new housing first tenancies commenced since July 2016 to date in 2017. [53001/17]

2017-12-12

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of shared ownership loans that have resulted in repossession and the owner losing his or her home in each of the years 2007 to 2016 and to date in 2017, in tabular form. [53201/17]

2017-12-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans to introduce a scheme for genuinely affordable rental and purchase housing in 2018; and the funding allocated and targets for units to be delivered. [52319/17]

2017-12-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of real social houses delivered to date in 2017 by scheme including council new build, council acquisition, council Part V, council returned void, AHB new build, AHB acquisition, AHB part V, and AHB returned void. [52163/17]

2017-12-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of the possible redesignation of approved housing bodies by EUROSTAT and the CSO; the contingency plans in place to deal with this in order to meet his social housing targets; and his further plans to assist approved housing bodies secure land in order to meet their social housing targets as per Rebuilding Ireland. [52162/17]

2017-12-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of his Department's inquiry into allegations of planning corruption in County Donegal. [52161/17]

2017-12-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 1358 of 7 November 2017, if he will reconcile the data on voids contained therein and in the 2016 NOAC report; and if an assurance will be provided that there is no double counting of regular voids and long term voids in his annual social housing output figures for 2014 to 2017. [52165/17]

2017-12-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the findings of the 2013 departmental review into shared ownership schemes; the reason the report was never published; the actions he took following the report; and the advice that is being given to councils dealing with distressed shared ownership mortgages. [52164/17]

2017-12-05

PQ

Asked Health

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Health the associated costs provided by his Department towards the funding of one Housing First tenancy. [51772/17]

2017-12-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 690 of 28 November 2017, the details of activities covered by the funding from his Department to an organisation (details supplied). [51762/17]

2017-12-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the associated costs of funding one Housing First tenancy in tabular form. [51771/17]

2017-11-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans for the ongoing review of funding supports for group water schemes; the length of time the review will take; the lead official in his Department working on the review; the organisations and persons that have been consulted to date; the opportunities available to individual group water schemes or interested third parties to engage with the consultation. [49952/17]

2017-11-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the funding his Department provides to a group (details supplied) on an annual basis since the group was established. [49953/17]

2017-11-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the capital investment by his Department in individual group water schemes in each of the years 2014 to 2016 and to date in 2017, in tabular form. [49954/17]

2017-11-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the practice of some local authorities of providing families that are homeless but have not met the requirements of housing circular 41/2012 with emergency accommodation on a night-by-night basis only; if his attention has been further drawn to a legal reason a local authority cannot provide emergency homeless accommodation to a family that does not meet the provision of housing circular 41/2012 for four consecutive nights or more; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50126/17]

2017-11-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of homeless HAP tenancies created in the first six months of 2017; the number of these used to prevent homelessness; and the number used to support individuals and families to exit section 10 funded homeless accommodation. [50127/17]

2017-11-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of adult persons who have exited section 10-funded homeless accommodation in the first six months of 2017; and the housing tenures to which they have exited. [50128/17]

2017-11-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of RAS tenancies active at the end of each year from 2005 to 2016 and to date in 2017; and the annual cost of RAS tenancies for each year. [50157/17]

2017-11-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of part V units delivered in 2016; and the number delivered to date in 2017. [50159/17]

2017-11-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of SHCEP-funded leases in categories (details supplied) for each of the years 2014 to 2016 and to date in 2017; the annual cost for these leases each year; the target number of leases under these categories in each of the years 2018 to 2021; and the estimated cost of these leases in each of these years. [50288/17]

2017-11-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the progress made to date on action 5.3 of Rebuilding Ireland on work with local authorities to speed up the refurbishment and where possible the re-letting of vacant social housing units; the number of vacant units in the south of Dublin city centre; the average length of time units are vacant in this area, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50346/17]

2017-11-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the names of the special advisers employed in his Department; the names of special advisers to junior ministers or Ministers of State in his Department; and the annual gross salary of each adviser. [50441/17]

2017-11-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans to include a summary at the start of all future social housing construction status reports from quarter 3, Q3, 2017 providing the number of units that have secured planning permission, that have commenced, that have completed and that have been tenanted since the previous quarters reports. [50495/17]

2017-11-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if his Department or local authorities have discretion to offer private developers more than a 10% deposit in advance of the purchase of turnkey developments for social housing; if deposits of above 10% have ever been sanctioned by his Department to facilitate the progress of such turnkey developments; and if he has given consideration to allowing the use of such discretion with respect to a specific development in a location (details supplied) in County Kerry. [50520/17]

2017-11-23

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 1358 of 7 November 2017, the criteria used to classify voids. [49710/17]

2017-11-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the amount of funding allocated and drawn down by all local authorities for Traveller accommodation in 2016 and to date in 2017; and his plans for improving the drawdown of local authorities in 2018 as a result of the funding increase announced in budget 2018. [49197/17]

2017-11-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 1358 of 7 November 2017, the reason for the discrepancy in the figures for local authority voids contained in the NOAC report 12 of May 2017, table F, pp 60/61, and the figures for long-term voids returned to stock funded by his Department; the way in which NOAC reported 4,202 voids of all categories based on 2014 figures yet his Department is asserting that 8,430 long-term voids have been returned to stock between 2014 and 2017; and if ordinary short term voids are being included in the figures provided in the parliamentary question concerned rather than long-term voids as was asked in the question. [48394/17]

2017-11-09

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of RAS, HAP and privately owned SHCEP long-term lease tenancies inactive on 31 December or each year since each scheme was introduced, in tabular form; and the annual cost of each scheme for each of these years. [47443/17]

2017-11-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the reports commissioned by his Department or its predecessor from the Housing Agency or other bodies in each of the years 2011 to 2016 and to date in 2017 that have not yet been published; the reason each report has not been published; and the timeframe for the publication of these reports. [46794/17]

2017-11-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of long term social housing voids returned to stock by each local authority in each of the years 2014 to 2016 and to date in 2017; and the funding allocated to each local authority in each year to restore these units to use, in tabular form. [47024/17]

2017-10-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the target number of affordable units (details supplied) to be delivered in 2018 via the local infrastructure housing activation fund, LIHAF, Home Building Finance Ireland, HBFI, and the forthcoming affordable housing scheme. [45427/17]

2017-10-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if a project (details supplied) in Dublin 8 will be funded directly through Exchequer revenue rather than a private sector-led land initiative. [45348/17]

2017-10-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of his plans to roll out the national quality standards framework office inspection regime for emergency homeless accommodation; if all emergency accommodation, including commercial hotels and bed and breakfast establishments, will be covered by this; and if the office inspectorate will be fully independent of his Department and local authorities. [45346/17]

2017-10-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans in conjunction with local authorities and other bodies to deliver the agreed number of social and affordable homes in strategic development zones, SDZs, such as at Poolbeg and Clonburris and land initiatives such as O'Devaney Gardens and the Grange. [45349/17]

2017-10-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his views on the findings of the independent review of funding for Traveller specific accommodation and the implementation of traveller accommodation programmes; and his plans to address the problems in the delivery of traveller specific accommodation identified in the report. [45347/17]

2017-10-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he is satisfied that AHBs have secured sites and funding to enable them to meet their revised new build targets for 2018 to 2021. [45345/17]

2017-10-26

VOTE

Housing · 4 divisions

✓ voted for the motion the motion motion failed · 42–90
✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion failed · 10–125
✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion failed · 37–99
✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion failed · 52–82

2017-10-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number and cost of Part V units purchased with funding from his Department for each year from 2008 to 2016 and to date in 2017; the target number of this type of unit to be purchased with funding from his Department in 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021; and the funding allocated for Part V purchases for each year from 2018 to 2021, in tabular form. [44783/17]

2017-10-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the units delivered through SHCEP, the social housing current expenditure programme, in each of the years 2014 to 2016 and to date in 2017 by ownership (details supplied) in tabular form. [44860/17]

2017-10-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the average length of leases of properties secured under the SHCEP programme by ownership type (details supplied) including repair and leasing scheme units, in tabular form. [44861/17]

2017-10-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the grounds on which a property owner that has leased a property under the SHCEP programme can terminate the lease prior to the end date contained in the initial agreement; and if there are time limits placed on the earliest date during the lease that a property owner can trigger these termination clauses. [44862/17]

2017-10-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if the housing units funded through SHCEP for AHB build and acquisition units secured under an availability agreement are owned by the approved housing body, will be owned by the approved housing body at the end of the lease term or are and will remain in the ownership of a private third party. [44863/17]

2017-10-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if there is a prohibition on local authorities purchasing houses on the open market that are vacant and bought on the open market or that have RAS tenants who have been served with a NTQ arising from a landlord selling the property. [44369/17]

2017-10-17

PQ

Asked Finance

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Finance the targets he has for commencements and completions of new housing units for 2018 funded via home building finance Ireland; and the mechanisms which will be put in place for recipients of this funding to ensure that houses are sold at affordable prices. [43841/17]

2017-10-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the reason motor tax cannot be transferred from one vehicle to another when a person sells their taxed car and purchases an untaxed car; and his plans to allow persons take their car tax with them when they change vehicle. [43437/17]

2017-10-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the move-ons by tenure type (details supplied) in view of his Department's press statement accompanying the August 2017 homeless figures stating that 134 families moved on from homelessness in that month. [43373/17]

2017-10-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his Department's new HAP tenancy targets for 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021, respectively, in tabular form. [43833/17]

2017-10-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his Department's new RAS tenancy targets for 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021, respectively, in tabular form. [43834/17]

2017-10-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the delivery of and targets for delivery of social housing owned by local authorities and approved housing bodies, properties leased under the SHCEP programme and properties leased under RAS and HAP programmes for each year covered by Rebuilding Ireland, for example, 2016 to 2021. [43835/17]

2017-10-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of houses to be delivered in each of the 18 sites for which LIHAF contracts have been signed; and the number of houses on each site that will be sold at price bands (details supplied). [43836/17]

2017-10-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the mechanisms available to local authorities to ensure the provision of affordable homes on public or private lands including those included in the four land initiative schemes in Dublin city and county, the strategic development zones in Clonburris and other land on which councils, approved housing bodies or private developers plan to develop affordable housing. [43837/17]

2017-10-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the definition of "affordable housing" in terms of household income and purchase price of properties. [43838/17]

2017-10-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the expected draw down of LIHAF funds in 2017; the expected carryover of unspent LIHAF funds from 2017 to 2018; the LIHAF allocation for 2018 including carryover; and the way in which the €50 million announced for the second LIHAF call related to the initial announcement of the €226 million LIHAF announced in 2016. [43839/17]

2017-10-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of Part V units purchased with funding from his Department in the past 12 months by local authority area; the average price paid for these units in each local authority area; the maximum price paid for any Part V unit in each local authority area; and the number of properties purchased in each local authority area at a price above the average for that local authority area in the past 12 months, in tabular form. [43840/17]

2017-10-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the details of the €15 million allocation in budget 2018 for infrastructure and services on local authority owned sites; the way in which this funding can be applied for; if it can be incorporated into land initiative projects; and if there is a target number of affordable units to be delivered in 2018 and 2019 under this fund. [43869/17]

2017-10-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of meetings of the Rebuilding Ireland project oversight group he has held since coming into office. [43932/17]

2017-10-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of units delivered through SHCEP in each of the years 2014 to 2016 and to date in 2017; the target number to be delivered for each year from 2018 to 2021; the number of these units each year that will remain in private ownership, council ownership and ownership of an approved housing body; and the cumulative annual cost of servicing these leases for each year from 2014 to 2021. [43957/17]

2017-10-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown of the 40,000 real social housing units to be delivered under Rebuilding Ireland by categories (details supplied), in tabular form. [43992/17]

2017-10-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans to deal with issues that arise from section 18(4)(a) of the Local Government Act 2001 regarding councillors taking maternity leave from their elected role; his further plans to review this legislation in the near future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43097/17]

2017-09-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of rental accommodation scheme, RAS, tenancies in place; and the annual cost of these tenancies. [41056/17]

2017-09-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of housing assistance payment, HAP, tenancies in place; and the annual cost of these tenancies. [41057/17]

2017-09-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of social housing current expenditure programme, SCHEP, tenancies in which properties are owned by private landlords; and the annual cost of these tenancies. [41058/17]

2017-09-28

VOTE

Housing · 2 divisions

✗ voted against the motion the motion motion passed · 40–37
✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion passed · 41–36

2017-09-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the amount allocated to and drawn down by all local authorities for the caravan loan scheme in each of the years 2012 to 2016, and to date in 2017, in tabular form. [40821/17]

2017-09-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number and cash value of new CALF loans provided to approved housing bodies in each of the years from 2000 to 2016 and to date in 2017, in tabular form. [40193/17]

2017-09-21

VOTE

Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Housing) Bill 2017

A bill to amend the Constitution

✓ voted to progress the bill whether the bill should proceed (Second Stage) motion failed · 37–73

2017-09-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of vacant properties offered by the Housing Agency to the local authorities for purchase, by local authority; the number purchased by each local authority; the number rejected by each local authority; the number under consideration by each local authority; and the reason these properties have been refused, in tabular form. [39400/17]

2017-09-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that 8,657 Dublin City Council homes are awaiting insulation as part of the phase 2 of the insulation programme (details supplied); when it will be confirmed that this funding is available to Dublin #City Council; and if it is not available in 2017, if he will include it in his budget for 2018. [39401/17]

2017-09-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he will introduce an affordable housing model which will ensure Dublin City Council will be in a position to proceed with the construction of affordable homes on agreed sites in Dublin city. [39402/17]

2017-09-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the progress which has been made with the introduction of an affordable or cost rental model of housing. [39403/17]

2017-09-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if a group was established to explore the introduction of an affordable or cost rental model of housing; and if so, if the group has met and made progress on the matter. [39404/17]

2017-09-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of vacant houses offered to the Housing Agency and/or his Department to purchase; and the number of those houses offered by banks. [39409/17]

2017-09-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of RAS tenancies in each local authority area, in tabular form. [39410/17]

2017-09-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the progress in the Rebuilding Ireland target of rolling or choice-based letting, CBL, in each local authority area; the local authorities that are using CBL; the local authorities that are in the process of installing the system and training staff in its use; and the timeframe for the completion of this work. [39411/17]

2017-09-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of shared ownership loans and first-time buyer's loans in each local authority issued since these schemes came into existence, in tabular form; the number of each category currently in mortgage arrears of less than and more than 90 days; the number of properties repossessed as a result of mortgage arrears; the number of properties that were voluntarily sold; the value of these mortgages; and the value of the arrears on these mortgages. [39672/17]

2017-09-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the annual capital investment spend on domestic water and sanitation services in each of the years 2000 to 2021, in tabular form. [36809/17]

2017-09-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he will request that the statistical data relating to the Dublin Region Homeless Executive's, DRHE, protocol (details supplied) be published on a monthly and timely basis, specifically the data relating to families and children involved. [37153/17]

2017-09-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of plans to sell the harvesting rights of kelp disk seaweed to a company (details supplied); if this deal has already gone through; and the way it will affect the County Clare coastline. [37254/17]

2017-09-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the amount it would cost to restore the Traveller accommodation budget to 2008 levels. [37455/17]

2017-09-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the amount of Exchequer funding allocated in the past five years and to date in 2017 for homeless services, in tabular form. [37456/17]

2017-09-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the amount of funding allocated to each local authority in the past five years and to date in 2017 for the provision of homeless services, in tabular form. [37457/17]

2017-09-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of a report with his Department into allegations of planning irregularities in County Donegal; if the report has been finalised and presented to him; the date on which he plans to publish the report; the action he will take both in County Donegal and generally as a result of the findings of the report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38269/17]

2017-09-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the source of the revenue being used to refund Irish Water customers. [38285/17]

2017-09-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he will provide a list of all Part V housing units funded by his Department in the past 12 months, by housing development listing; the number of units in each development; and the cost to his Department for units on each development, in tabular form. [38929/17]

2017-07-26

PQ

Asked Finance

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Finance the number of vacant homes in possession in each of the State-backed banks in each of the past 12 months; the number of these homes that were offered to the Housing Agency as per actions 1.1, 2.5 and 5.6 of Rebuilding Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35697/17]

2017-07-26

PQ

Asked Justice

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will meet with the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government to agree the best way in which to assist those residents of direct provision who have secured their leave to remain but are unable to access permanent housing due to the housing crisis and are effectively using direct provision as a form of emergency accommodation. [35842/17]

2017-07-26

PQ

Asked Justice

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will discuss with the Ministers for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government and Social Protection the funding arrangements for residents of direct provision centres who have secured their leave to remain but are unable to source permanent accommodation and are effectively using direct provision as a form of emergency accommodation and who are having their social welfare payments deducted at source leaving them with inadequate income and an inability to save for a deposit for rented accommodation. [35847/17]

2017-07-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of builders that applied for the planning rebate scheme in each of the years 2014 to 2016 and to date in 2017; and the cost of the scheme in each of these years. [34926/17]

2017-07-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will change the income assessment guidelines for housing needs assessments to disregard family income supplement on the grounds that this income support is paid to households whose own income falls below levels the Government deems acceptable and, therefore, should not be taken into account when determining a household's housing need. [35056/17]

2017-07-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if the €330 million in capital commitments for the action plan on housing referenced in page 21 of the summer economic statement 2017 is included in the €788 million capital ceiling for housing referenced in page 32 part II expenditure allocation 2017 to 2019 published with budget 2017. [35125/17]

2017-07-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government further to page 23 of the Irish Water business plan, the amount of the €533 million capital investment plan for 2017 which was government capital expenditure. [35133/17]

2017-07-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government further to page 23 of the Irish Water business plan, the amount of the €595 million capital investment projection for 2018 which is government capital expenditure. [35134/17]

2017-07-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the spend on Traveller accommodation in each of the years 2014 to 2016, and to date in 2017; and the number of accommodation units provided in each year. [35152/17]

2017-07-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the details of his Departments capital expenditure allocation in 2016 of €534 million and in 2017 of €732 million by project or programme type; the number of housing units delivered (details supplied) in tabular form. [35153/17]

2017-07-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 1322 of 20 June 2017, if he will provide information on the organisations listed (details supplied) that also received section 10 funding under the Housing Act 1988. [35366/17]

2017-07-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the names of advisers he has appointed to his office since becoming Minister; the responsibilities of each; the previous employment of each; and the salaries of each. [35620/17]

2017-07-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the specific sequence of steps to be followed under appropriate regulations and legislation for the foreshore lease application process; his department's assessment process regarding foreshore lease planning applications; the progress made to date in the consideration of the application by the Marine Institute for the construction of a project (details supplied) on Galway Bay based on this process; when a decision will be made on this application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35663/17]

2017-07-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if the national quality standards framework for homeless services has been published by his Department; and if not, when it is due for publication. [35746/17]

2017-07-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will issue a circular to all local authorities in which there are direct provision centres recommending that the local authority provide homeless HAP payments to residents of direct provision who have secured their leave to remain but due to the housing crisis have been unable to source permanent accommodation and are effectively using direct provision as a form of emergency accommodation. [35846/17]

2017-07-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his Department has issued directions or guidelines to local authorities with respect to the vacant properties held by banks (details supplied) offered for sale to the Government. [35877/17]

2017-07-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of vacant homes held by banks (details supplied) that have been offered for sale to the Government since December 2016; and the details of these properties by local authority area. [35878/17]

2017-07-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to introduce a grant scheme in budget 2018 for repair of water and sewage systems on private residential property where the property is of a significant age and persons are unable to meet the costs due to low income (details supplied) and for persons on the State pension, low occupational pensions or other social welfare payments [36140/17]

2017-07-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to ensure that no LIHAF funding will be released to developers that have not provided for a proportion of the units in their development to be sold at an affordable price that is less than €300,000 in Dublin and at appropriate levels elsewhere. [33571/17]

2017-07-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the measures he will take to ensure that all emergency homeless accommodation, including family hubs, funded by his Department will meet the highest possible standards. [33572/17]

2017-07-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the status of the ongoing discussions within his Department and the approved housing bodies, ABH, sector on the forthcoming housing (regulation of approved housing bodies) Bill 2015. [33144/17]

2017-07-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the status of the Government commitment to provide affordable rental and purchase homes; and his views on the difficulties of Dublin City Council and South Dublin County Council to guarantee affordable rental or purchase units in the joint venture and land initiative projects. [33147/17]

2017-07-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the status of the Housing Agency and his Department's review of the all in cost of providing private sector residential units. [33145/17]

2017-07-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the status of the commitment made on page 54 of Rebuilding Ireland to extend the national housing strategy for persons with a disability. [33146/17]

2017-07-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the status of the commitment given on page 53 of Rebuilding Ireland that a special purpose vehicle would be established with support from organisations (details supplied). [33143/17]

2017-07-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government when consultation on the draft legislative provisions for his departmental remit to transpose Directive 2014/52/EU introducing substantial amendments to the Environmental Impact Assessment Directive 2011/92/EU will be provided; when such provisions are expected to be initiated (details supplied); the basis on which these provisions will be introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34298/17]

2017-07-11

PQ

Asked Finance

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Finance the impact on the expenditure benchmark and expenditure ceilings for 2018 and each subsequent year arising from an increase in local government borrowing of €100 million to €500 million, respectively, in 2018 for the purposes of the provision of affordable housing. [32490/17]

2017-07-11

PQ

Asked Finance

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Finance the impact on the Government debt and the Government's agreed debt reduction targets as required under the Stability and Growth Pact and fiscal treaty rules for 2018 and each subsequent year arising from an increase in local government borrowing of €100 million to €500 million respectively in 2018 for the purposes of the provision of affordable housing. [32491/17]

2017-07-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the estimated full year cost of positions (details supplied) by pay, employer's PRSI and allowances, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32622/17]

2017-07-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the policy in relation to third party submissions to the Mahon tribunal; if there is a list of all the submissions that have been kept or archived by the tribunal; and the location in which these submissions are stored. [32113/17]

2017-07-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the unallocated spend within his Department for 2017; the expenditure allocated to programmes in 2017 which are due to cease in 2017; the funds that will become available within his Department's expenditure profile in 2018 due to changes in demand for services and goods and or changes to costs within his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32303/17]

2017-07-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the actions that have been implemented to date as a result of the framework laid out in the national housing strategy for persons with a disability (details supplied); the length of time this strategy will be extended to; the persons or organisations that make up the implementation monitoring group; and the number of times this group has met since it was established. [32359/17]

2017-07-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the status of the ringfenced funding of €10 million in 2016 under the CAS, specifically for the provision of accommodation for persons with disabilities transitioning from congregated settings as mentioned on page 55 of Rebuilding Ireland; the areas in which this funding was utilised; and the number of housing units delivered. [32360/17]

2017-07-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if the homeless families accommodated in the family hubs are recorded on the PASS system; and if they are included in his Department's monthly homeless report. [32366/17]

2017-07-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the allocation for Traveller accommodation in 2017; the amount of funding drawn down from this budget to date; and the amount his Department expects to draw down by the end of 2017. [32367/17]

2017-07-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the amount allocated from his Department to fund homeless services in 2017; the additional allocation to homeless services allocated by the local authorities; the amount spent to date on homeless services; and the expected final expenditure on homeless services by the end of 2017. [32368/17]

2017-07-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the progress to date of the repair and lease scheme; the number of properties currently involved in the scheme; and the average amount required up front by the property owner to bring the unit back into stock. [32369/17]

2017-07-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the access guidelines for persons with disabilities in place for local authorities in relation to the provision of Part 5 or Part 8 local authority houses. [32370/17]

2017-07-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the amount of the €70 million allocated by his Department in 2017 for the Housing Agency fund to purchase vacant houses which has been drawn down to date; the number of units which have been purchased with this fund to date; the number of these units which have been sold onto local authorities and-or approved housing bodies; and the average cost per unit of the units purchased to date. [32398/17]

2017-07-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of units brought into use via the buy and renew scheme pilot in Louth County Council by unit size; and the average cost of returning these units to use. [32400/17]

2017-07-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the detail of his Department's capital expenditure allocation in 2016 of €534 million and in 2017 of €732 million by programme or project type, in tabular form. [32486/17]

2017-07-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if the 30% capital advance leasing facility, CALF, payment to approved housing bodies for social housing projects funded with Housing Finance Agency, HFA, or private finance comes from his Department's current or capital budget. [32489/17]

2017-07-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the detail of his Department's expenditure allocation in 2016 of €401 million and in 2017 of €566 million by project or programme type, in tabular form. [32576/17]

2017-07-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of times the working group established to review the 2005 sustainable rural housing guidelines for planning authorities has met; the engagement it has had with the European Commission; and the position regarding the progress of the working group to date in 2017. [31646/17]

2017-07-04

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the regulations in place regarding accessibility in private sector housing developments to ensure the needs of persons with disabilities are met in the provision of private sector housing; and if he will provide copies of relevant regulations or legislation. [31033/17]

2017-07-04

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 2,100 of 20 June 2017, if these persons will now be included in his Department's monthly homeless statistics in view of the fact it is now sourced and funded by Dublin City Council under section 10 of the Housing Act 1988 (details supplied). [31037/17]

2017-07-04

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if the place finders service that was promised to assist programme refugees find private rented accommodation has been established; and if so, if he will allow the 399 persons with a form of status that reside in State provided accommodation to access the place finders service in order to find private rented accommodation. [31051/17]

2017-07-04

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to publish the Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2017 in June or July 2017 and to seek to have the Bill passed before the 2017 summer recess; and if not, the implications for the current suspension of domestic water charges. [31074/17]

2017-07-04

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of the 1,552 social housing acquisitions in 2017 that were purchased by local authorities and approved housing bodies respectively. [31373/17]

2017-07-04

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the annual allocation under the housing adaption scheme made by his Department to each local authority in each of the years from 2002 to 2016, and to date in 2017, in tabular form. [31428/17]

2017-06-29

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the proposed and approved rapid build housing developments; and the timeframe for each development in respect of the publication of part 8 application, the decision on part 8 approval, the contractor on site and the units tenanted for each site. [30555/17]

2017-06-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of the 10,000 social housing units currently in his Department's plans which have not yet commenced the part 8 process. [30253/17]

2017-06-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government when the fire safety certificate and disability access certificate was issued by Dublin City Council for a building (details supplied); when a certificate of compliance was validated by Dublin City Council; the name of the assigned certifier who was on site on 21 June 2017; when the safety file was given to the building owner; the name of the project supervisor at construction stage; if they were on site on 21 June 2017; and if it was legal for homeless persons to be placed in this facility on the night in June when ten families were placed for a single night. [30274/17]

2017-06-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of the 800 plus families who were in hotel and bed and breakfast emergency accommodation at the end of March 2017 that have been transferred to other forms of emergency accommodation to date in 2017; and the number of the 650 families who were in hotel and bed and breakfast emergency accommodation at the end of May 2017 that will be moved into other forms of emergency accommodation including hubs by the end of July and August 2017. [30275/17]

2017-06-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will provide his Department's targets for social housing completions in 2017 by scheme type (details supplied), in tabular form. [30426/17]

2017-06-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of social housing completions in the first quarter of 2017 by scheme type, in tabular form (details supplied). [30427/17]

2017-06-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the names of the persons and organisations on his Department's data analytics group; and the names and organisations it has consulted with to date. [29764/17]

2017-06-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the data officials from his Department or those officials involved in the short-term letting working group have requested from a company (details supplied); when this information was requested; and if this data has been provided. [29993/17]

2017-06-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the steps he has taken since the tragic fire at Grenfell, London, to ensure that no social housing here is at risk of fire from the use of combustible materials used in construction or refurbishment. [29374/17]

2017-06-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will conduct a review of the increased use of combustible materials in house construction and, if necessary, update fire safety regulations and building regulations. [29375/17]

2017-06-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the level of combustible materials being used in all new social housing construction including standard build, refurbishment, rapid build and hubs; and if he is satisfied that the use of such materials does not in any way compromise fire safety in these units. [29376/17]

2017-06-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the functions and responsibilities that will be transferred from his Department to the Department of Community and Rural Affairs. [29181/17]

2017-06-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government when the new Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government will officially be established. [29182/17]

2017-06-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the status of his Department's report into the fire at Milford Manor, Newbridge, County Kildare; the timeframe for finishing the report; the expected recommendations; and the publication date of same. [26709/17]

2017-06-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 444 of 16 May 2017, the number of emergency accommodation service providers that received section ten funding from central government in each of the years 2015, 2016 and to date in 2017. [27954/17]

2017-06-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the criteria for the allocation of funding under the housing adaptation grant scheme to local authorities across the State; and the reason the 2017 allocation to Donegal County Council is a fraction of the amount allocated to other local authorities serving a population less than County Donegal. [28719/17]

2017-06-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of homeless family hubs to be put in place; the location of same; the funding for and number of beds in each hub; and the date on which these beds will be occupied. [28930/17]

2017-06-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government when he will publish legislation to give effect to the recommendations of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future Funding of Domestic Water Services; and if this legislation will deal with the issue of ensuring financial equity to those in group and private water schemes. [28931/17]

2017-06-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the status of the work of the departmental working group on the regulation on short-term letting, such as by a company (details supplied). [28932/17]

2017-06-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the status of the work of the departmental working group on housing statistics. [28933/17]

2017-06-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if funding requests from the housing agency for the purchase of vacant homes were refused in 2016 or in 2017; if so, the amount refused; and the proposed units that were not purchased as a result of this refusal. [28934/17]

2017-06-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the social housing developments which his Department is refusing to fund at 100%; the location of these developments; the number of units involved; and the reason 100% departmental funding is not being provided. [28935/17]

2017-06-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of times the short-term letting working group has met since its formation in January 2017. [28993/17]

2017-06-20

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the average cost of one, two, three and four bed local authority new build units on the basis of costings submitted to his Department by local authorities over the past 12 months; if he will provide a breakdown of all in costs and construction only costs; and the itemised costed list of the individual non construction costs for each unit size. [28994/17]

2017-05-30

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the capital and current expenditure on housing in 2016; and the allocated capital and current expenditure on housing in 2017, in tabular form. [25663/17]

2017-05-30

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government further to the ongoing investigation into complaints regarding irregularities in the administration of planning in County Donegal, the reason he will not permit the senior counsel undertaking the exercise to investigate the matter relating to An Bord Pleanála and Donegal County Council which has been documented to him; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25910/17]

2017-05-30

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government further to the ongoing investigation into complaints regarding irregularities in the administration of planning in County Donegal, the reason he will not permit the senior counsel undertaking the exercise to investigate the matters relating to the CEO of Donegal County Council which have been documented to him; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25911/17]

2017-05-30

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government further to the ongoing investigation into complaints regarding irregularities in the administration of planning in County Donegal, the reason he will not permit the senior counsel undertaking the exercise to investigate the matters relating to the civil servants that advised on the discredited report put before Dáil Éireann regarding these matters in 2012 and which has been documented to him; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25912/17]

2017-05-30

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government further to the ongoing investigation into complaints regarding irregularities in the administration of planning in County Donegal, the reason he will not permit the senior counsel undertaking the exercise to investigate the matters relating to the acting director of planning and senior planner in Donegal County Council which has been documented to him; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25913/17]

2017-05-30

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the status of all investigations into planning matters initiated by him or his ministerial predecessors under section 255 of the Planning and Development Acts since 2011; the current status of each investigation; the details of the findings made and actions taken in cases in which these investigations have concluded; the reason for the delay in those investigations not being concluded; and if he will lay before Dail Éireann the completed or ongoing investigations when they are concluded. [25965/17]

2017-05-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of affordable housing units that will be built on a site (details supplied) in view of the fact that a number of housing development sites, including a site and other sites around the State, received a substantial amount of funding from the local infrastructure housing activation fund, which contained a requirement for affordable housing; the percentage of the units built which will be affordable; and the amount these homes will cost. [25050/17]

2017-05-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government to outline the position regarding the way in which he plans to uphold his commitment to end the use of hotels and bed and breakfast accommodation as emergency accommodation for persons by July 2017; and a timeframe for same. [24806/17]

2017-05-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the position regarding the EU Commission's legal proceedings against the Government for the breach of the urban wastewater treatment directive. [24807/17]

2017-05-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the position regarding his commitment to develop and roll out an affordable rental model; the model of affordable rental being examined by his Department; and the timeframe for the publication of this scheme. [24808/17]

2017-05-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the position regrading the pilot mortgage to rent scheme involving private equity firms including the lease arrangements in place; the level of security of tenure provided for home owners and tenants; and if it is designed to meet the needs of distressed mortgage holders who do not qualify for social housing. [24805/17]

2017-05-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if large scale housing funding projects proposed to his Department by local authorities, approved housing bodies or the Housing Agency, including acquisitions or new builds which were deferred in 2016 have been deferred in 2017; if so, the projects concerned; the amounts requested and deferred; and the reasons for these decisions. [24809/17]

2017-05-25

VOTE

Residential Tenancies (Housing Emergency Measures in the Public Interest) (Amendment) Bill 2016 · 2 divisions

A bill to amend the Residential Tenancies Acts 2004; to lessen the effects of the housing, rental and homelessness emergency for the common good; to establish a fair rent scheme; to promote affordable rents and increased security of tenure for tenants in designated fair rent areas and to provide for related matters

✗ voted against the motion the motion motion passed · 98–41
✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion passed · 99–40

2017-05-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the annual capital investment spent on wastewater treatment from 2000 to 2021 in tabular form; and the figure for the portion of this investment each year targeted at those agglomerations listed by the European Commission in its urban wastewater directive infringement proceedings from 2013, including the 38 currently with the ECJ. [24918/17]

2017-05-23

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans for the regulation of a company (details supplied); if he or his officials have met with the company and if so, when; the topics discussed; and his plans to bring forward regulations clarifying in law the position in relation to short-term lets. [24128/17]

2017-05-18

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to develop official national planning guidelines to regulate for large-scale solar developments or solar farms. [23693/17]

2017-05-16

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if large scale housing funding projects proposed to his Department by local authorities, approved housing bodies or the Housing Agency, including acquisitions or new builds, were deferred in 2016 or have been deferred in 2017; if so, the projects concerned; the amounts requested and deferred; and the reasons for these decisions. [23111/17]

2017-05-16

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to bring forward regulations or legislation on matters (details supplied); if he will consult with the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government prior to enactment of any regulations; and his views on the relationship of the large number of matters of this nature and the crisis in the private rental market. [23112/17]

2017-05-16

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on whether some or all of households with more persons than rooms are in breach of section 63 of the Housing Act 1966, in view of the release of the latest Central Statistics Office data (details supplied); and his plans to tackle overcrowding, particularly in the private rented and social housing sectors. [23155/17]

2017-05-16

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if the national emergency co-ordination group has been convened in relation to the recent large numbers of gorse fires across County Donegal and the gorse and forest fires elsewhere in the State; and the person or body that was overseeing this emergency situation at national level and that was making decisions on the deployment of resources such as helicopters with water and Defence Forces personnel. [23212/17]

2017-05-16

PQ

Asked Health

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Health if the HSE funds emergency accommodation services; if so, the details and the amount of funding provided to each of these services in 2015 and 2016 and to date in 2017; and if persons resident in HSE funded accommodation are included in the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government's PASS data that forms the basis of the official monthly homelessness data report. [23120/17]

2017-05-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the reason alleged claims of improper influence by named persons in a planning appeal are not being examined as part of an ongoing investigation regarding planning irregularities in the administration of planning in Donegal County Council. [22479/17]

2017-05-02

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Kildare County Council is unable to begin the repair and lease scheme citing staffing issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19174/17]

2017-05-02

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if there is a flexibility or facility for councillors to change the timeframe and-or add an additional public consultation period within the same as a reserved function, in view of the fact that setting and adopting a local area plan is a reserved function of a municipal district, unless it traverses more than one municipality. [19798/17]

2017-05-02

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the reason for the difference between the house completion figures provided by his Department and the figures from the building control management system provided by the Local Government Management Agency as outlined in a table (details supplied). [20100/17]

2017-05-02

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will change the way he presents the house construction figures making clear the difference between new build completions and existing builds returned to active housing stock. [20101/17]

2017-05-02

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will publish the building control management system house completion figures for each year that the system has been in place. [20102/17]

2017-05-02

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he is satisfied that the house completion figures published by his Department are a true record of the actual number of new homes being built. [20103/17]

2017-05-02

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on the criticism of his Department's house completion figures by persons (details supplied). [20104/17]

2017-05-02

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on allegations detailed to him by a person (details supplied) alleging breaches of planning regulations; his plans to address the allegations; if he is satisfied that his Department and the county council have responded adequately to the allegations raised by the person; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20499/17]

2017-05-02

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government when the housing data analytics group was established; the names of the persons that sit on the group; the number of meetings it has had; and if he will make public the minutes and reports from this group. [20647/17]

2017-04-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of engineers employed in the roads department of Galway County Council; if they are allocated by geographic area or by project; and if they have the resources necessary to deliver their current work plan. [17989/17]

2017-04-06

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government in view of the fact that levels of homelessness have increased by 27% in the past 12 months, and that February homeless figures show that increases in individual family and child homelessness have reached historic highs, the way in which he intends to meet his target date of July 2017 to ensure that no families will be living in hotels and bed and breakfasts. [17285/17]

2017-04-06

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the measures he will undertake to strengthen SICAP, social inclusion and community activation programme, in view of the fact there is a commitment in the programme for a partnership Government to strengthen SICAP and increase RAPID funding; and if he will commit to a review of the flawed tendering process that community groups go through when applying for this funding. [17088/17]

2017-04-06

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government in view of the fact that his Department’s three schemes aimed at bringing vacant homes back into use only target 3% of the total vacant housing stock and in view of the fact that his Department is currently developing a strategy to target these units if this strategy will contain a commitment to significantly increase the resourcing of this scheme to ensure a greater number of vacant homes are brought on stream. [17089/17]

2017-04-06

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will respond to this Deputy's submission to his office and his senior departmental officials on the proposed social housing public private partnership for Dublin City Council, South Dublin County Council, Wicklow and Kildare County Councils. [17087/17]

2017-04-06

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on whether the application of the RPZ 4% rent limit to RAS, HAP and SCHEP leases runs the risk of landlords withdrawing from the leases and putting the current tenants at risk of homelessness. [17085/17]

2017-04-06

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 432 of 21 March 2017 (details supplied) and in view of the fact that the European Commission is launching ECJ court action against the Government for breaches of this directive, his plans in addition to what is already contained in the Irish Water capital investment programme to bring these plants into line with the State’s legal and environmental obligations. [17086/17]

2017-03-30

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if business improvement districts established under the Local Government (Business Improvement Districts) Act 2006 will be brought under the Freedom of Information Act. [15880/17]

2017-03-23

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of homes delivered and tenanted through initiatives set out in Rebuilding Ireland to bring vacant stock back into use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14607/17]

2017-03-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 65 of 23 February 2017, if the application of the rent pressure zone scheme to the rental accommodation scheme, housing assistance payment and social housing current expenditure programme leases was intentional or accidental. [13155/17]

2017-03-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the estimated amount it would cost to adequately upgrade the infrastructure in the wastewater plants in the 38 agglomerations across the State that are deemed to be in breach of the Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive. [13292/17]

2017-03-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government when the assistant principal officer position in his Department, previously held by a person (details supplied) will be filled; and the name of the senior official in his Department that is now responsible for liaising with a group (details supplied) of affected homeowners in County Donegal. [13385/17]

2017-03-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government when the report of the expert panel examining problems that have emerged in the concrete blockwork of certain dwellings in counties Donegal and Mayo will be published. [13386/17]

2017-03-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of compulsory purchase orders, CPOs, currently in process in relation to the acquisition of vacant properties by local authorities; the number of CPOs which were completed in each of the years 2013 to 2016 and to date in 2017; and if this information is not available, the reason he is not keeping track of this. [12327/17]

2017-03-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will provide a full progress report on the 520 new social housing units for Dublin that are to be developed through the five PPP programmes announced in October 2015; the funding model that is being used to deliver these homes; the reason the individual councils will not be managing and maintaining the units; the persons or body that will own the units at the end of the 25-year lease period; the total cost per unit over the 25 years; and the way this cost compares to the standard capital up-front cost of standard social housing. [12328/17]

2017-03-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if payment of domestic water charges to Irish Water is a criteria for eligibility for the current tenant purchase scheme; if so, the rationale for this criteria; the reason this criteria was included while other utility debts such as for gas and electricity were not; and if he is reviewing this criteria in the current review of the tenant purchase scheme. [11331/17]

2017-03-01

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the details of the legal underpinning for the setting of local authority and approved housing body rents; the role elected members of local authorities have in the setting of differential rent schemes; and his plans to change the current arrangements for the setting of differential rents in social housing. [10709/17]

2017-02-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will consider introducing an amendment to the Residential Tenancies Act to allow for the initial date of occupation of an approved housing body tenancy to be considered the start date for the new Part 4 tenancy when that tenancy is brought under the terms of the Residential Tenancies Act as amended in 2014; and if not, the reasons therefor. [10274/17]

2017-02-28

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will confirm that included in the amendments to the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 made in 2016 was the removal of subsequent six month probationary tenancies at the end of an existing Part 4 tenancy. [10294/17]

2017-02-23

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will provide greater detail on proposals to involve private equity firms in the revised mortgage-to-rent scheme, including information on the financing of private equity lease arrangements, security of tenure for homeowners and tenants and the involvement or otherwise of distressed mortgage holders who do not qualify for social housing. [9093/17]

2017-02-23

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to amend the Residential Tenancies Acts to bring local authorities tenants under the terms of the acts and Residential Tenancies Board in order that they will have access to the same rights as private rented sector tenants and tenants of associated housing bodies. [8992/17]

2017-02-23

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on the decision of the European Commission to launch legal proceedings against the Government for breach of the urban wastewater treatment directive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8989/17]

2017-02-23

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the status of the review of the social inclusion and community activation programme, SICAP; and his plans to review the tendering process introduced in 2014. [8993/17]

2017-02-23

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if the latest phase of rapid build social housing projects are costing on average €240,000 per unit; and his views on whether this cost can be justified in comparison to the average cost of providing standard social housing, acquisitions, refurbishments, repair and lease scheme units and repair and purchase scheme units. [8991/17]

2017-02-23

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if the application of the rent pressure zone scheme to rental accommodation scheme, housing assistance payment and social housing current expenditure programme leases was intentional or accidental; and if he has satisfied himself there will not be unintended consequences for the inclusion of these lease arrangements under the new 4% rent cap. [8990/17]

2017-02-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if the 4% rent limits included as the new rent pressure zones apply to the rental accommodation scheme, housing assistance payment, SCHEP lease and approved housing body tenancies. [8110/17]

2017-02-21

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government when the technical guidelines for near zero energy buildings will be published; the detail of these guidelines and their implications for public buildings and in particular, all new social housing in terms of energy efficiency requirements. [8401/17]

2017-02-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government ,further to Parliamentary Question No. 268 of 24 January 2017, the annual cost to the Exchequer if the existing subsidy to domestic group and private water users covered the full operating costs of providing water for domestic use; and the number of domestic group and water users who currently benefit from the subsidy. [7750/17]

2017-02-14

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if revenue raised by Irish Water through domestic water charges is used to fund the operational costs of the provision of water services or the rolling capital programme, as detailed in page 23 of Irish Water's business plan; and if some or all of the revenue raised from domestic water charges is allocated to Irish Water's capital investment programme, the amount allocated for each year that domestic water charges have been collected. [6992/17]

2017-02-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the persons and the groups on the departmental working group considering the regulatory approach in relation to online letting platforms such as a company (details supplied); the number of times this working group has met or plans to meet; and if the working group will be meeting with and taking submissions from relevant stakeholders. [5598/17]

2017-02-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the rationale for excluding approved housing body, AHB, rent reviews from the remit of the Residential Tenancies Board, RTB, adjudication process; and if he will reconsider this exclusion and bring forward appropriate legislation that would allow AHB tenants that feel the outcome of their event review is not fair to have access to the RTB for adjudication. [5843/17]

2017-02-02

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government when the report from the expert panel established to investigate problems that have emerged with concrete block work in counties Donegal and Mayo will be published; and if he will ensure that the full report and recommendations as submitted to him will be published. [5031/17]

2017-01-31

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the real need to develop facilities at Greencastle Harbour and Leenan Pier in County Donegal; if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that his Department's funding system for piers and harbours severely curtails Donegal County Council's ability to carry out the necessary improvement works; and if he will urgently review this funding system. [4359/17]

2017-01-31

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of vacant positions on the board of the Residential Tenancies Board; and the efforts that are being made to fill these places. [4520/17]

2017-01-26

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on the claim as reported in a newspaper (details supplied) that the number of house completions may be lower than announced by his Department due to the way ESB connections are collated; and if he will review the methodology for calculating house completions in view of the information contained in the news report. [3663/17]

2017-01-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the persons and or the groups on the departmental working group on vacant properties; the number of times this working group has met; and when the the working group is going to report back. [3531/17]

2017-01-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown of the 5,280 social housing units provided in 2016 (details supplied); if he will provide a further breakdown of the leased units in terms of whether the units will be owned by councils or AHBs at the end of the lease term or if they will be owned by the private sector; if all 5,280 social housing units are now tenanted; and if not, the number that have not been tenanted. [2635/17]

2017-01-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the procedure whereby contractors, whether commercial or not for profit, can bid for contracts for the delivery of rapid build housing in Dublin, as outlined in the Government's housing action plan. [3059/17]

2017-01-24

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the cost to the Exchequer if the existing subsidy to domestic group and private water users were to cover the full cost of those schemes to their users. [3166/17]

2017-01-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the reason the November homelessness report published on 30 December 2016 does not include all those persons in State-funded emergency accommodation; if he will ensure that the figures will in future include those persons in domestic violence emergency accommodation funded by Tusla and those in the Department of Social Protection new communities unit-funded emergency accommodation and that the reports will be published earlier each month and on a Dáil sitting day to allow for adequate scrutiny; and if he will commit to further implementing the seven-point plan agreed with Home Sweet Home in January 2017 to tackle homelessness. [2286/17]

2017-01-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the way in which he calculated the figure of €14 million as recovered revenue if an excess charge for water was introduced; and if his Department has calculated the amount it would cost to administer such a scheme. [2137/17]

2017-01-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the guidance that has been issued to local authorities with regard to the policy and procedural aspect of their housing role which will ensure effectiveness and consistency in local authority responses to victims of domestic violence; if he will ensure that local authorities are issued with guidelines on the way to allow for flexibility on issuing payments to those transitioning from an abusive situation in local authority areas where the HAP scheme has been rolled out; and if his Department plans to review and issue guidelines on the situation whereby local authorities do not consider women entitled to social housing if they jointly own a property with their abuser, regardless of the fact that this property is not available to them as they would not be safe there. [2140/17]

2017-01-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the details and timeframe as to the way in which he plans to uphold his pledge to end the use of hotels and bed and breakfasts as emergency accommodation for families by the middle of 2017. [2141/17]

2017-01-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to seek more funding to purchase more units in view of the fact that banks (details supplied) have offered the State up to 1,000 vacant houses for purchase yet to date the Government has only provided money for the purchase of 200; the amount of funding; and the number of additional units. [2143/17]

2017-01-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if, in view of recent confusion as to when the monthly homeless figures will be released, he will consider publishing the monthly homeless figures within two weeks of the end of the month in question; and if, in future, he will include adults and children in emergency domestic violence refuges funded by Tusla, non-residents in emergency accommodation funded by the new communities unit of the Department of Social Protection or those persons sofa surfing in his Department’s monthly homeless figures. [2144/17]

2017-01-19

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his Department has a register of funds and persons that own the requisite levels of properties as to be potentially affected by the recent amendment of section 35A of the Residential Tenancies Act, the so called Tyrrelstown amendment; and the safeguards or deterrents in place to prevent such an entity transferring stock to multiple holding companies, with each one selling off nine units, thereby defeating the objective of the amendment. [2472/17]

2017-01-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will provide an estimated breakdown of the 23,036 social housing units to be provided under Rebuilding Ireland by unit type, including local authority new build, approved housing body new build, Part V acquisition, and void and-or refurb; and if he will confirm that all void figures are the return of long term voids into stock rather than the standard retenanting of short term voids. [1199/17]

2017-01-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will provide a list of all social housing new build projects which are currently making their way through his Department's four stage approval process, broken down by local authority area, indicating whether they are LA or AHB and indicating the stage in the approval process they are at and when tenanting is expected. [1200/17]

2016-12-16

VOTE

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad] · 7 divisions

✗ voted against the motion motion passed · 52–43
✓ voted for a sub-amendment motion failed · 43–52
✓ voted to add an amendment to the bill motion failed · 43–52
✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion passed · 52–43
✓ voted to add an amendment to the bill motion failed · 34–59
✓ voted to add an amendment to the bill motion failed · 41–49
✓ voted to add an amendment to the bill motion failed · 39–50

2016-12-15

VOTE

Social and Affordable Housing Bill 2016 · 2 divisions

A bill to amend various enactments with a view to improving the supply of social and affordable housing and to provide for related matters.

✗ voted against the motion the motion motion passed · 57–49
✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion passed · 57–49

2016-12-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the reason for the low take-up of house purchases by the Housing Agency from banks (details supplied) as detailed in Parliamentary Question No. 145 of 1 December 2016; and if he will provide additional funding to the Housing Agency to increase the number of these properties to be purchased as a matter of urgency. [39725/16]

2016-12-13

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to meet with representatives of the Ringsend Glass Bottle Site Housing Action Group (details supplied) to discuss their plans for the old glass bottle site portion of the SDZ in Ringsend, Dublin; and if he will consider their proposals for maximising the provision of social and affordable housing in that location. [39771/16]

2016-12-13

VOTE

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 · 4 divisions

A bill to facilitate the implementation of the document entitled "Rebuilding Ireland - Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness" that was published by the Government on 19 July 2016, and for that and other purposes to amend the Planning and Development Acts 2000 to 2015, the Residential Tenancies Acts 2004 to 2015 and the Housing Finance Agency Act 1981, to amend the Local Government Act 1998 in relation to the Local Government Fund and to provide for connected matters

✓ voted to add an amendment to the bill motion failed · 2–5
✓ voted to add an amendment to the bill motion failed · 2–5
✗ voted against the motion motion passed · 5–2
✓ voted to add an amendment to the bill motion failed · 2–4

2016-12-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will publish the membership of the rental strategy working group; the number of times it has met; and the persons or bodies it has met and received submissions from. [39327/16]

2016-12-08

VOTE

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]

✗ voted to block the bill whether the bill should proceed (Second Stage) motion passed · 91–45

2016-12-07

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the reason he has not replied to e-mails of 3 October 2016, 17 October 2016, 11 November 2016 in respect of persons (details supplied) and a grant for a housing adaptation that requires approval of his Department. [39130/16]

2016-12-06

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if all pre-2011 RAS tenants are eligible to remain on their local authorities housing lists and have access to allocations from the primary housing list or choice based letting systems. [38362/16]

2016-12-06

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he sought legal opinion from the Attorney General on whether the strategic housing section of the Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 complies with Ireland's EU and international obligations under the Aarhus Convention; and if so, if he will publish this advice. [38444/16]

2016-12-06

PQ

Asked Social

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Social Protection whether his Department provides the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government with the number of homeless adults and children in his Department's funded accommodation services; and if he will engage with his counterparts in the Departments of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government and Children and Youth Affairs and supply these figures from January 2017 to ensure that they are included in the Department of Housing, Planning, Community, and Local Government official monthly homeless figures. [38443/16]

2016-12-06

PQ

Asked Children

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her Department does not provide the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government with the number of homeless adults and children in Tusla-funded accommodation services; and if she will engage with her counterparts in the Departments of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government and Social Protection and supply these figures from January 2017 to ensure that they are included in the Department of Housing, Planning, Community, and Local Government's official monthly homeless figures. [38442/16]

2016-11-22

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will include figures provided from Tusla of adults and children in domestic violence refuges in his Department's monthly homeless reports. [36271/16]

2016-11-22

PQ

Asked Children

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will publish figures provided from Tusla of adults and children in domestic violence refuges on a monthly basis to allow the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government to include these figures in their monthly homeless reports. [36272/16]

2016-11-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to direct local authorities to sell public land at low or below market rates as part of pillar 3 of his housing action plan; the public sites currently under consideration for such sale; the total hectarage of these sites; the number of houses that will be provided at these locations; the percentage of these houses that will be social housing; the timeframe for providing these units; and the cost to the State arising from the low or below market sale of these lands. [35578/16]

2016-11-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to conduct a full and independent analysis of the staffless libraries pilot scheme on which the current roll-out scheme is based. [35444/16]

2016-11-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the engagements he or his officials have had with housing officials in South Dublin County Council in recent months regarding the provision of additional emergency accommodation in that council’s administrative area. [35452/16]

2016-11-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the contacts he has had with the Minster for Justice and Equality, relevant Department officials and local authority housing managers to discuss the difficulties faced by the 500 people who are currently in direct provision despite having refugee status; and if he will consider providing these persons with additional supports to help them find housing. [35453/16]

2016-11-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will ensure that the continued roll-out of the staffless library scheme will not result in staffing hours being cut. [35445/16]

2016-11-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the projected spend on housing for the lifetime of the Rebuilding Ireland plan broken down into capital and current spend for each year of the plan in tabular form. [35631/16]

2016-11-17

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown of the annual allocation of capital and current spend and the annual drawdown of capital and current spend by each local authority for each of the years from 2011 to 2016, in tabular form. [35632/16]

2016-11-17

PQ

Asked Children

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 674 of 18 October 2016, if the action 1.8 in the Rebuilding Ireland: Action Plan for Housing and Homelessness, which states that Tusla will provide additional emergency refuge accommodation spaces for victims of domestic violence, is the same as the extra eight family units that were promised for 2016 for the greater Dublin area as stated in the reply to the parliamentary question. [35638/16]

2016-11-16

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of tenancies in RAS, HAP and any long-term leasing programme; the annual cost to the State arising from these schemes and the number of tenancies which have transferred directly into HAP from rent supplement since the scheme was introduced. [35404/16]

2016-11-16

PQ

Asked Social

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of households in receipt of rent supplement; the total cost to the State per month arising from these payments; and the number of rent supplement claimants who have come off rent supplement and transferred directly into the housing assistance payment since that scheme was introduced. [35403/16]

2016-11-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the total funding provided to each local authority by his Department for homeless services expressed in monetary terms and as a percentage of the local authorities' overall housing budgets, in tabular form; the reason his Department's contribution to homeless services has been declining as a percentage of the overall homeless budget from approximately 90% to in some cases only 70%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34976/16]

2016-11-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of design build operate contracts and design build contracts in water services in operation here; and the estimated cost of the remaining life of these contracts, with a breakdown of the annual cost of these contracts. [35122/16]

2016-11-15

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government when a water extraction licensing regime will be introduced; if such a regime is required under the terms of the Water Framework Directive; and if such a register would apply to all water extraction including public and commercial operations. [35123/16]

2016-11-08

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the allocations of funding of service providers under section 10 of the Housing Act 1988 per year and per organisation for each of the years 2012 to date in 2016, in tabular form. [33616/16]

2016-11-03

PQ

Asked Justice

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of adults and children who remain in direct provision after receiving their stamp four leave to remain; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the Reception and Integration Agency is now threatening these persons with eviction with the potential for them to become homeless; if her attention has further been drawn to the very real difficulties these persons are having in accessing private rented accommodation; the supports she plans to put in place to assist these persons in making the transition from direct provision; and if she has discussed this matter with the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government in order to co-ordinate the efforts of both Departments to prevent these persons from becoming homeless. [33134/16]

2016-11-03

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if additional funding is available to provide emergency accommodation in South Dublin County Council; if he and his Department have been in discussions with officials in South Dublin County Council to identify potential sites for this emergency accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33132/16]

2016-11-03

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the large number of persons who remain in direct provision following receipt of their stamp four visas and the threat of these persons and families being made homeless by the Reception and Integration Agency; if with his responsibility for homelessness policy he has raised this matter with the Minister for Justice and Equality to put in place housing solutions that will prevent persons becoming homeless in the transition from direct provision. [33133/16]

2016-10-25

PQ

Asked Justice

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the legislative or policy basis underpinning the definition of cohabiting used by INIS when determining visa applications; the reason INIS does not consider couples living with the parents of the Irish partner as cohabiting; if she will review this practice and allow such couples to be considered as cohabiting even when they are living with the parent of an Irish citizen in view of the housing crisis and the high costs of rents. [31870/16]

2016-10-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the amount of money which has been earmarked from his Department for the funding of the independent Commission on Domestic Public Water Services. [31648/16]

2016-10-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government when and the way in which the special Oireachtas committee to consider the report of the independent Commission on Domestic Public Water Services will be established. [31649/16]

2016-10-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the amount of Irish Water's 2017 capital programme which will come from Exchequer funds; and the amount which will come from borrowing by Irish Water. [31650/16]

2016-10-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of housing units he expects to be delivered as a result of the additional €127 million allocated to local authorities in budget 2017; and the type of social housing he expects to be funded through this funding stream. [31753/16]

2016-10-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will provide additional detail on the buy and renew scheme announced in budget 2017; if this will be available to all local authorities; and the number of units he expects this fund to deliver. [31754/16]

2016-10-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will provide additional detail on the capital funding being provided to the Housing Agency in budget 2017; when this money will be made available to the agency; when they will be approved to start purchasing properties; the number of properties he expects to be purchased in 2017; if these will then be leased or purchased by councils or approved housing bodies; and the funding which will be used to secure these purchases or leases. [31755/16]

2016-10-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of locations which will be eligible for the additional pyrite remediation scheme announced in budget 2017; and the details of areas to be funded. [31756/16]

2016-10-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will provide additional details of the repair and leasing initiative announced in budget 2017; the local authorities that will be able to avail of this scheme; when it will open; and the number of units he anticipates it will deliver. [31757/16]

2016-10-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the amount of funding allocated and drawn down by all local authorities for Traveller accommodation in 2015 and to date in 2016; and his plans for improving the drawdown of local authorities in 2017 as a result of the funding increase announced in budget 2017. [31758/16]

2016-10-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will provide additional details of the community facilities fund announced in budget 2017, including which local authorities will be able to avail of the fund; the measures on which they can spend this money; and the way in which they can apply for same. [31759/16]

2016-10-25

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the reason the additional funding for housing grants will only be available to private homeowners; and his plans for tackling the backlog of private and social housing adaptation grants. [31760/16]

2016-10-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the total number of staff vacancies in the public library service per local authority, which have not been filled since 2008 in tabular form. [29218/16]

2016-10-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the total number of county librarian posts which have not been filled since 2008. [29219/16]

2016-10-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will address the issue of lone working by part-time branch librarians in rural libraries on health and safety grounds. [29220/16]

2016-10-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the reason the four Dublin local authority library services are not participating in the so-called nationwide sharing of library book stock and in the national library management system. [29221/16]

2016-10-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on the various allegations detailed to him by a person (details supplied) in a county council that allege another person was acting fraudulently; his plans to address the allegations; if he is satisfied that his Department and the county council concerned have responded adequately to the very serious allegations raised previously by this whistleblower; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29701/16]

2016-10-11

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the total number of local authority voids returned to stock in each year from 2010 to 2015 and to date in 2016; the target for the total to be returned to stock by the end of 2016; the total remaining voids expected at the end of 2016; the plan from 2017 onwards to return these voids to stock by local authority area; and the total cost and projected cost of bringing these units back into stock annually from 2010. [29702/16]

2016-10-06

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the figures for homeless persons nationally and in the Dublin region; and the number of these persons who have been deemed not entitled to be on a social housing waiting list nationally and in Dublin. [29045/16]

2016-10-06

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government to set out the responsibilities and rates of pay for each of his ministerial advisers; if any of these are in receipt of salaries above the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform pay caps; and, if so, the reason the cap has been breached in each instance. [29126/16]

2016-10-06

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government to set out in tabular form the amount spent by each individual local authority on library services; the number of libraries under each local authority and if they are open on a full-time or part-time basis. [29170/16]

2016-10-06

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government to set out in tabular form the number of staff employed in the library service in each local authority area; the number of staff that were full-time and the number that were part-time for each of the years from 2006 to date in 2016. [29171/16]

2016-10-06

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government to set out in tabular form the total and per capita spend per council on the book fund for public libraries for each of their local authority areas. [29172/16]

2016-10-06

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government to outline his plans regarding a matter (details supplied). [29174/16]

2016-10-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will review the decision to discontinue with the ministerial directive that instructed local authorities to allocate 50% of social housing to homeless and other vulnerable households on the grounds that the research report on which the decision was taken is fundamentally flawed. [28800/16]

2016-10-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the rationale for the proposed use of staffless libraries; and if he will reconsider the introduction of this policy in view of opposition from library staff and local communities. [28699/16]

2016-10-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the amount of money being provided to the expert commission on water charges; and if the money is coming from existing departmental funds or additional funds secured from Government. [28698/16]

2016-10-05

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of former rental accommodation scheme and rent supplement persons who have transferred across to the housing assistance payment, HAP, while remaining in the same property in real terms and as a percentage of the total number of live HAP tenancies. [28807/16]

2016-10-04

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if the stakeholder consultation report on the national planning framework, arising from the consultation events that took place in June 2016, has been published; and if not, when the report will be published. [28094/16]

2016-10-04

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if funding can be released to allow site enabling works on the highlighted piece of land at Shangan, Ballymun, for affordable and senior citizens units. [28174/16]

2016-10-04

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government when the expert panel currently investigating the issue of mica defective concrete blocks will publish their report or an interim report. [28487/16]

2016-10-04

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his Department has been consulted on and sanctioned the harvesting of seaweed in Roundstone Bay, County Galway by means of new technology provided by a company (details supplied) to local harvesters; and if all the relevant licences were in place and environmental impact statements completed before the harvesting began. [28541/16]

2016-10-04

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his Department has received a report on the extent of land folios existing here with appurtenant seaweed harvesting rights attached to them; and the way these may interact with current legislation or the proposed marine area and foreshore amendment Bill; and if he will be making that report available to the Houses of the Oireachtas. [28542/16]

2016-10-04

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the progress made by his Department to implement the recommendations in the May 2015 report of the former Joint Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht on developing the seaweed industry in Ireland. [28543/16]

2016-09-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the composition of the projected capital investment spend by Irish Water for 2018-2021, as per the Irish Water business plan; and the portion which is expected to come from Exchequer funding, Government borrowing, equity or debt financing, in tabular form. [26752/16]

2016-09-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if, referring to the 2013 report from the strategic working group on shared services in public libraries, there is a cost-benefit analysis report to support the shared services approach to library services for certain towns and cities; and if so, if he will provide this report. [27108/16]

2016-09-27

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if, referring to the 2013 report from the strategic working group on shared services in public libraries, this shared services approach has been piloted to date and if savings have been made; and if so, the details of the savings made. [27109/16]

2016-09-16

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the reason the decision was made to cease the funding for the Ballymun social regeneration fund by 2017; if he is aware that the cessation of this funding will affect the future operation of 18 different programmes; and if he will revisit this decision with a view to continuing his Department's funding of these projects. [24791/16]

2016-09-16

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the amount of funding the IPA is receiving for providing secretarial support services to the Expert Commission on Water Charges. [25856/16]

2016-09-16

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the 627. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the total amount of funding in tabular form the Government is providing to the Expert Commission on Water Charges. [25857/16]

2016-09-16

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if the expert water commission is covered by the Freedom of Information Acts. [25858/16]

2016-09-16

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the reason there is a delay in paying the €17 million owed to Dublin City Council for Ballymun regeneration works; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25860/16]

2016-09-16

PQ

Asked Housing

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the composition of the €533 million, including the portion that is expected to come from Exchequer funding and the portion from Government borrowing or equity or debt financing regarding the €533 million allocated for Irish Water capital investment in 2017, as per the Irish Water Business Plan, in tabular form. [25931/16]

2016-09-16

PQ

Asked Social

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Social Protection if the new communities unit shares information on the persons they accommodate with the Dublin Regional Homeless Executive, the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government or other authority with responsibility for housing. [24632/16]

2016-07-21

VOTE

Housing (Sale of Local Authority Housing) Bill 2016

A bill to enable a housing authority to sell a dwelling acquired by a housing authority under Part V of the Planning and Development Act 2000 to a tenant of such a dwelling

✓ voted to add an amendment to the bill motion passed · 84–42

2016-07-19

PQ

Asked Environment

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the average length of time for social housing projects to complete the four stage approval process; and the average length of time to complete each of the four stages. [22316/16]

2016-07-19

PQ

Asked Environment

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the time to complete the four stage approval process for social housing at St. Finian’s Avenue, Lucan, County Dublin. [22317/16]

2016-07-19

PQ

Asked Environment

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the time to complete the four stage approval process for the 11 social housing units at St. Mark's Green, Clondalkin, Dublin 22. [22318/16]

2016-07-19

PQ

Asked Environment

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the time to complete the four stage approval process for the 18 social housing units in the Mayfield Estate, Clondalkin, Dublin 22. [22319/16]

2016-07-19

PQ

Asked Environment

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the time to complete the four stage approval process for the 37 social housing units at Lett’s Field, Dublin 22. [22320/16]

2016-07-19

PQ

Asked Environment

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he has taken a decision to have those households whose income is above the specified eligibility thresholds removed from local authority housing lists as part of the 2016 social housing assessment; if this decision has been explicitly highlighted by departmental officials in recent briefing meetings with local authority staff in preparation for the social housing assessment 2016; if so, the level of excess household income which would determine whether a household that is €1 above the threshold, a nominal amount above the threshold, or a percentage above the threshold would be removed from the list; the number of households which were removed from the local authority lists in 2013 for having exceeded the household income threshold; and the reason he is not taking into account high rent levels, high child care costs or other household costs when making the income assessments. [22753/16]

2016-07-19

PQ

Asked Public

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the local authorities and associated housing bodies that have applied to use the framework agreement for integrated design team services to assist with social housing delivery. [22228/16]

2016-07-12

PQ

Asked Environment

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will issue guidelines to local authorities for the application of social contracts to council capital projects, such as social housing or libraries. [20534/16]

2016-07-12

PQ

Asked Environment

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider, as part of the housing action plan, providing local authorities with five- or six-year funding programmed for social housing rather than the three-year funding cycle that is currently in place. [20530/16]

2016-07-12

PQ

Asked Environment

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if there are any barriers to local authorities including social contracts, similar to those used by central government in Grangegorman or Irish Water in capital projects, such as social housing construction or provision of other local services, such as libraries. [20531/16]

2016-07-12

PQ

Asked Environment

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 242 of 5 July 2016 on funding allocated to the mortgage to rent scheme in the years 2013 to 2016 to date, the number of units approved housing bodies and local authorities acquired, by year, in tabular form. [21022/16]

2016-07-12

PQ

Asked Environment

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will publish his action plan for housing and make arrangements with the Government Chief Whip to ensure there is a debate on it in Dáil Éireann prior to the 2016 summer recess. [21034/16]

2016-07-05

PQ

Asked Environment

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government to provide the figures on increases under the housing assistance programme taking effect from 1 July 2016 by county in tabular form. [19778/16]

2016-07-05

PQ

Asked Social

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Social Protection to provide the figures on increases under the housing assistance programme taking effect from 1 July 2016 by county, in tabular form; the guidance he will issue to community welfare officers; and the criteria that will need to be satisfied, in view of his plans to regularise informal top-up payments to landlords. [19790/16]

2016-06-29

PQ

Asked Environment

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the action he will take prior to publishing his action plan for housing to deal with the rising level of family homelessness, given the dramatic rise of 86% in the past 12 months, that 2,177 children are homeless, that an increasing number of families are being forced to self-accommodate and that local authorities are turning away an increasing number of families who are seeking emergency accommodation. [18770/16]

2016-06-29

PQ

Asked Environment

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the action he is taking to ensure that the Irish Glass Bottle site in Dublin 4 will have the maximum level of social and affordable housing possible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18480/16]

2016-06-28

PQ

Asked Foreign

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when he will issue a response to the concerns raised by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in correspondence dated September 2015 on housing and water provision for homeless persons in County Cork; and his approach to the provision of water and sanitation services for the homeless. [17933/16]

2016-06-14

PQ

Asked Environment

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the functions and responsibilities that will be transferred from his Department to the Department of housing, planning and local government. [15733/16]

2016-06-14

PQ

Asked Environment

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the measures he will take to ensure the needs of persons with disabilities are incorporated into future housing policies, as per the programme for Government; and when he will implement this commitment. [15915/16]

2016-06-14

PQ

Asked Environment

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government when the new Department of housing, planning and local government will officially be established. [15943/16]

2016-06-14

PQ

Asked Social

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Social Protection the amount his Department has saved since 2014 by transferring those persons in receipt of payments under the rent supplement scheme to the housing assistance payment scheme; and the amount he will save in 2016 and 2017. [15694/16]

2016-06-08

PQ

Asked Environment

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the total annual allocation for housing assistance payment tenancies for 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 in tabular form; and the total number of tenancies funded or expected to be funded for each year. [14258/16]

2016-05-31

PQ

Asked Environment

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government to provide a breakdown of the 1,477 social housing current expenditure programme units (details supplied) operational in 2015. [12765/16]

2016-05-31

PQ

Asked Environment

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government of the 4,068 adults and the 2,121 children recorded as accessing local authority managed emergency accommodation during the week of 18 to 24 April 2016, how many were placed by the new communities unit; the number of these who had a housing needs assessment; and if they are on the social housing waiting list. [13528/16]

2016-05-31

PQ

Asked Social

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Social Protection how many adults and children are referred and funded by the new communities unit; how many of these had a housing needs assessment; and if they are on the social housing waiting list. [13529/16]

2016-05-25

PQ

Asked Environment

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the amount his Department spent on local authority housing in 2015, and the number of units it delivered in tabular form. [12019/16]

2016-05-25

PQ

Asked Environment

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the amount he has allocated for local authority housing and how many units he will deliver in 2016. [12020/16]

2016-05-25

PQ

Asked Environment

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the funding allocated to and drawn down by associated housing bodies and the number of units delivered in 2015 in tabular form. [12021/16]

2016-05-25

PQ

Asked Environment

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the funding he has allocated to associated housing bodies and the number of units he will deliver in 2016 in tabular form. [12022/16]

2016-05-25

PQ

Asked Environment

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the amount spent on housing adaptation grants in 2015 in tabular form. [12023/16]

2016-05-25

PQ

Asked Environment

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the funding he has allocated for housing adaptation grants in 2016. [12024/16]

2016-05-24

PQ

Asked Environment

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government why responsibility for delivering 80% of social housing, as outlined in Social Housing Strategy 2020, is being handed over to the private sector; and if he will review this policy. [11596/16]

2016-05-24

PQ

Asked Environment

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government to amend the terms of reference of the expert panel, chaired by a person (details supplied) which is investigating the problems in concrete block work in counties Donegal and Mayo, to allow it to investigate problems in concrete block work in publicly owned buildings such as council housing and schools; and if the terms of reference allow the expert panel to recommend a redress scheme similar to the pyrite redress scheme. [11244/16]

2016-05-24

PQ

Asked Environment

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of planning applications and of units included in the Social Housing Strategy 2020 that have been delayed due to delays in the planning process. [11346/16]

2016-05-24

PQ

Asked Environment

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the length of time the procurement and tendering process took for each of the social housing projects included in Social Housing 2020 that have reached construction phase. [11347/16]

2016-05-24

PQ

Asked Environment

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the funding his Department provided for cyclical maintenance of social housing stock and the amount drawn down, by local authority for each of the years 2008 to 2016 to date in tabular form. [11538/16]

2016-05-24

PQ

Asked Environment

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the funding his Department provided, the amount drawn down and the number of tenancies this supported under the housing assistance payment scheme, by local authority, for each year since the scheme commenced, in tabular form. [11540/16]

2016-05-24

PQ

Asked Environment

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the funding his Department provided for accommodation provided by approved housing bodies, the amount drawn down and the number of tenancies this supported by local authority for each of the years 2008 to 2016 to date in tabular form. [11542/16]

2016-05-24

PQ

Asked Environment

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if approved housing bodies have an obligation to register their tenancies with the Private Residential Tenancies Board; when this obligation came into effect; and the implications of this obligation on the security of tenants with respect to the four-year tenancy rule. [11811/16]

2016-05-24

PQ

Asked Environment

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the details of the 35,000 social housing units outlined in the social housing strategy 2020 by tenancy type, including local authority units that are refurbished, purchased on the open market, Part V, new build, leased where the local authority owns the units and leased where the units remain in private ownership; approved housing bodies units that are refurbished, purchased on the open market, Part V, new build by local authority, leased where the approved housing bodies own the units and leased where the units remain in private ownership; and units under the rental accommodation scheme. [11874/16]

2016-05-18

PQ

Asked Communications

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if and when he contacted the Department of housing, planning and local government digital hub, the Dublin Regional Homeless Executive or Dublin City Council regarding the imminent closure of the Brú Aimsir hostel in County Dublin; and if he supports removing the 100 emergency beds currently in the hostel from the Dublin emergency accommodation system or if he believes these beds should remain operational until such time as an alternative location for them is provided. [10880/16]

2016-05-17

PQ

Asked Environment

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his views on whether parents with joint custody and a social housing eligibility is entitled to be placed on the housing list with additional bedrooms to facilitate overnight stays with their children; and the guidelines he provides to local authorities on this matter. [10463/16]

2016-05-17

PQ

Asked Environment

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his position on the proposal by the Irish League of Credit Unions to provide loan finance for the provision of social housing; why he has not taken up these proposals to date and when he will [9861/16]

2016-05-05

PQ

Asked Environment

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of claimants under the rent supplement scheme who have been transferred to the housing assistance payment scheme, by month, since January 2015. [9245/16]

2016-05-05

PQ

Asked Environment

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the capital allocation for social housing for each of the years 2000 to 2016 to date, in tabular form. [9226/16]

2016-05-05

PQ

Asked Environment

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the allocation for social housing in each of the years 2000 to 2016, in tabular form. [9227/16]

2016-05-05

PQ

Asked Environment

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the capital expenditure for social housing in each of the years 2000 to 2016 to date, in tabular form. [9228/16]

2016-05-05

PQ

Asked Environment

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the expenditure on social housing in each of the years 2000 to 2016 to date, in tabular form. [9229/16]

2016-05-05

PQ

Asked Environment

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government for a progress report on the €400 million allocation in the Social Housing Strategy 2020 for a new Housing Finance Agency; the structure, the individuals and organisations involved; the number of meetings held; the number of housing projects agreed, and rejected; the quantum of additional moneys leveraged; the spend to date; the number of houses built or bought; and the number of new tenancies created, in respect of this Agency. [9230/16]

2016-05-05

PQ

Asked Environment

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government for a progress report on the €300 million allocation in the Social Housing Strategy 2020, for a housing public private partnership; the structure of, the individuals and organisations involved; the number of meetings held; the number of housing projects agreed, and rejected; the quantum of additional moneys leveraged; the spend to date; the number of houses built or bought; and the number of new tenancies created, in respect of this public private partnership. [9231/16]

2016-05-05

PQ

Asked Environment

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the capital allocation for social housing for each of the years 2015 to 2020, in tabular form; and the expenditure in 2015 and in 2016 to date. [9232/16]

2016-05-05

PQ

Asked Environment

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the membership of the social housing strategy oversight group; the number of meetings it has held since it was established; and to provide the Houses of Oireachtas, with copies of the minutes of its meetings. [9233/16]

2016-05-05

PQ

Asked Environment

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the membership of the Dublin social housing delivery taskforce; the number of meetings it has held since it was established; and to provide the Houses of the Oireachtas, with copies of the minutes of its meetings. [9234/16]

2016-05-05

PQ

Asked Environment

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government for a progress report on the cost rental pilot project, as committed to in the Social Housing Strategy 2020. [9235/16]

2016-05-05

PQ

Asked Environment

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government for a progress report on the National Asset Management Agency special purpose vehicle. detailed in the Social Housing Strategy 2020, including the names of the persons and organisations involved; the number of meetings held; the number of units produced via the special purpose vehicle; and the number of new tenancies created, since the special purpose vehicle was established. [9236/16]

2016-05-05

PQ

Asked Environment

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number and cost of housing adaptation grants provided, by grant type, and by the number of persons on the waiting lists, in each of the years 2000 to 2016 to date, in tabular form. [9237/16]

2016-05-05

PQ

Asked Environment

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the social housing new build projects he has agreed, but which have not yet been completed, by unit, by size and by number of bedrooms in tabular form. [9239/16]

2016-05-05

PQ

Asked Environment

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will proceed with annual housing needs assessments from 2016; and the additional resources he is making available to local authorities to deal with the significant administrative burden this will involve for them. [9241/16]

2016-05-05

PQ

Asked Environment

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of staff and full-time equivalents working in local authority housing departments, by local authority in tabular form. [9242/16]

2016-05-04

PQ

Asked Finance

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Finance the borrowing restrictions in place for local authorities which wish to borrow money to exceed the social housing new build targets, as outlined in his Housing Strategy. [9042/16]

2016-05-04

PQ

Asked Environment

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider applications from local authorities for social housing new-build programmes of 50 units or more; and if there is a maximum development size he is willing to consider. [9043/16]

2016-05-04

PQ

Asked Environment

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the stages of the procurement process he and local authorities used for the provision of local authority housing from pre-planning through to construction; and the average length of time this process takes for any individual build project, based on all local authority new build housing projects that have been completed during 2014 and 2015. [9035/16]

2016-05-04

PQ

Asked Environment

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government if the fast-track procurement process used for the Ballymun rapid build project could be used for standard local authority social housing new builds, where Part 8 planning permission is already in place; and if not, the reason. [9037/16]

2016-05-04

PQ

Asked Environment

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of housing assistance payment tenancies in place as of 1 April 2016, by new tenancies, and by existing tenancies, where the State subsidy has changed from rent supplement to housing assistance payment. [9038/16]

2016-05-04

PQ

Asked Environment

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of the 2,000 properties transferred to social housing from the National Asset Management Agency or from National Asset Management Agency debtors that have been tenanted, as of 1 April 2016. [9039/16]

2016-05-04

PQ

Asked Environment

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government the details of the 13,000 keys handed over under the social housing strategy in 2015 and in 2016 to date, by tenancy type, including local authority new build, refurbishment, acquisition and re-let; new Part V allocation; approved housing body new build and relet; new and renewed tenancy under the rental accommodation scheme; new tenancy under the housing assistance payment scheme, old tenancy transferred from the rent supplement scheme to the housing assistance payment scheme, and any other tenancy type not included in this list. [9041/16]

2016-04-14

PQ

Asked Social

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection why Intreo is writing to recipients of long-tern rent supplement and stating that it will suspend their payments if they do not transfer across to the housing assistance payment scheme, HAPS; the action she will take against those recipients who cannot access HAP accommodation or who do not wish to take up HAP accommodation as it will lead to a longer period waiting for a council or an approved housing body allocation. [6600/16]

2016-04-14

PQ

Asked Environment

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the regulations and guidelines he has provided to local authorities for the purposes of operating their housing assistance payment transfer lists; when he provided these; if he has not provided them, the reason therefore; and given that housing assistance payment has been in operation since January 2015, the reason for the delay in resolving this matter. [6601/16]

2016-04-14

PQ

Asked Environment

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the details of his contacts with the Department of Social Protection in respect of Intreo's decision to issue letters to recipients of long-term rent supplement stating that their payments due may be suspended if they do not transfer to the housing assistance payment. [6602/16]