Richard Boyd Barrett

People Before Profit-Solidarity · Dún Laoghaire

Activity on Housing — 963 events (37 lobbying · 887 questions · 81 votes) full profile →

• 2026-04-14
  PQ
  Asked Finance

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he will report on the progress of the housing investment and policy impact working group. [14449/26]
• 2026-03-19
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is concerned that the construction of the Shannon Pipeline by Uisce Éireann may have irreparable damage to the environment and agricultural land; his plans to reduce long-term risks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21365/26]
• 2026-03-18
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the position regarding a pathfinder apartment defects remediation scheme (details supplied); the timeline, budget, and the way in which findings will be rolled out nationally; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19467/26]
• 2026-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans to reduce unaffordable rents in the private sector. [17818/26]
• 2026-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage whether he will allocate funding to councils to improve the state of repair of social homes. [17822/26]
• 2026-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage whether he intends to raise the income limits for social housing eligibility. [17821/26]
• 2026-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of social homes his Department expects to deliver over the next five years. [17820/26]
• 2026-03-05
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the details of any analysis undertaken by his Department on the ‘viability’ of housing developments; and whether this includes raising rents in new tenancies. [17819/26]
• 2026-02-25
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if considering his recent media comments about getting families out of homeless accommodation and preventing families from entering homelessness, the measures he is taking to ensure this happens; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15378/26]
• 2026-02-25
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will confirm if Wicklow County Council have been given a budget for tenant-in-situ applications and if it is available for new applications (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15392/26]
• 2026-02-24
  PQ
  Asked Education

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education and Youth when she will approve and release funding for a permanent school building for a school (details supplied); and the steps her Department is taking to address the substandard temporary accommodation currently housing the school. [14499/26]
• 2026-02-17
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he has received any applications or requests to any section of his Department or State body under his aegis, for funding or financial collaboration from private investors with regard to an ice hockey arena in Cherrywood, County Dublin; if so to provide full details including amount of public funds being sought, whether the Government or State bodies are considering or have agreed to any request and whether there has been any public/stakeholder consultation on any such proposal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11750/26]
• 2026-02-17
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount allocated by the Traveller accommodation unit to each local authority for acquisitions specifically for the Traveller community between 2019 and 2025. [12251/26]
• 2026-02-17
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the criteria to get approval for funding for Traveller-specific acquisitions from the Traveller accommodation unit; and to outline any changes to these criteria since 2019. [12252/26]
• 2026-02-17
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of applications for Traveller-specific acquisitions that have been refused by his Department. [12253/26]
• 2026-02-17
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of Traveller liaison officer roles his Department has funded since 2019; and the number of requests for funding for these roles his Department has denied. [12254/26]
• 2026-02-12
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the homes delivered over the past five years, by local authority; the number of units transferred to local authorities for social and affordable homes under Part V agreements; whether these units were delivered as part of each development or in a separate site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11339/26]
• 2026-02-10
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will outline the cost ceilings provided to each local authority by his Department around the country for the tenant-in-situ scheme, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10116/26]
• 2026-02-10
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide details of all active interdepartmental, interagency, and department-agency working groups organised under his remit. [10158/26]
• 2026-02-05
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for details of any guidelines or legislation governing the appraisal of a person’s need in assigning medical priority for the allocation of social housing. [8875/26]
• 2026-02-04
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage whether his Department or any body under its remit has any contracts with an organisation (details supplied); or has contracted work from that organisation within the past two years. [7933/26]
• 2026-02-04
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage whether his Department or any body under its remit has any contracts with an organisation (details supplied); or has contracted work from that organisation within the past two years. [7951/26]
• 2026-01-29
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will clarify the situation in relation to the tenant-in-situ scheme in cases (details supplied); which local authority should be approached to explore the possibility of a tenant-in-situ scheme purchase; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7021/26]
• 2026-01-27
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he will publish the review of the income limits for social housing, discussed in recent correspondence (details supplied). [6402/26]
• 2026-01-22
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is aware of the failure of the developers (details supplied) to deliver on key obligations and commitments, including the promised town centre and bridge, and the affordable housing requirements attached to LIHAF; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5004/26]
• 2026-01-21
  LOBBY
  Cormac McKay Housing

  • Housing Stock Rehabilitation and Allocation Bill 2026
• 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
  Montague Communications Ltd Justice and Equality

  • Reform of the Multi-Unit Development (MUD) Act
• 2026-01-20
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is aware of the delay in permitting people to move into homes in Domville Crescent, Cherrywood, that they were allocated over 14 months ago; the legal issues between the AHB Oaklee and the developer that appear to be stalling access to homes for the families who urgently need to be housed; if he will agree that this is not acceptable given the housing crisis and take steps to resolve the issues as a matter of priority in order that people can move into permanent homes immediately; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3566/26]
• 2026-01-20
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to expand on his recent statements that local authorities should take urgent measures to prevent older people experiencing homelessness; and the specific measures his Department has implemented, or will implement, to achieve this. [4289/26]
• 2026-01-16
  LOBBY
  Irish Council for International Students (ICOS) Housing

  • Submitted PQ
• 2026-01-16
  LOBBY
  Simon Communities of Ireland Housing

  • IHPG presentation to Joint Committee on Housing
• 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 2 returns Housing

  • Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No.2) Bill 2025
  • Exempted Development legislation
• 2026-01-15
  PQ
  Asked Social

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection whether he will streamline approval of exceptional needs payments for core household goods, such as flooring and basic furniture, in order to ensure that social housing allocations are not delayed by lack of floors or other basic furniture in the allocated unit. [2890/26]
• 2026-01-13
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his Department is using artificial intelligence tools for any graphic design or similar work in place of artists, designers or videographers; and if so, to outline which projects or units of the Department are affected. [2250/26]
• 2026-01-13
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage whether any agencies or other bodies under his remit are using artificial intelligence tools for any graphic design or similar work in place of artists, designers or videographers; and if so, to outline which projects or units of the organisation are affected. [2268/26]
• 2026-01-08
  LOBBY
  Irish Green Building Council Housing

  • 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
• 2025-12-16
  LOBBY
  Mercy Law Resource Centre CLG Housing

  • Wrote to Oireachtas Committee Members Regarding 1988 Act prior to appearing before Committee
• 2025-12-16
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage following a failure to reach an agreement in the WRC, if his Department will go to the Labour Court to resolve a dispute with trade unions representing workers in the Dublin Fire Brigade, in line with the relevant codes of practice for industrial relations disputes involving essential services. [72228/25]
• 2025-12-11
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 550 of 30 September 2025, to list the aspects of the Ballymun regeneration project were uncompleted as of the end of 2013, when the project was "largely completed," and those which remain incomplete today. [71223/25]
• 2025-12-10
  PQ
  Asked Taoiseach

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [65780/25]
• 2025-12-09
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide information and clarification about a cost rental housing issue (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [69356/25]
• 2025-12-09
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will, in cooperation with Approved Housing Bodies, establish dedicated phone numbers and email addresses for Oireachtas members to contact AHBs to obtain policy information and to raise constituents’ issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [69495/25]
• 2025-12-09
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage whether contributions from the State or from employers towards the My Future Fund pension scheme will be reckonable as income for the purposes of assessing the eligibility of an individual or household for any means-tested services or schemes operated by his Department. [70025/25]
• 2025-11-25
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage regarding HAP tenancies where one income earner moves out, to ensure that the remaining tenant is not financially adversely affected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [65844/25]
• 2025-11-25
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to immediately raise the income limits for social housing to ensure that those who cannot afford cost rental or private rented are not denied eligibility for social housing. [65845/25]
• 2025-11-18
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage whether any funding that is made available for retrofitting local authority housing is intended for tenanted social homes; and if not, if it is exclusively for vacant social homes (details supplied). [62918/25]
• 2025-11-13
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the measures his Department is taking to protect renters who are subletting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62309/25]
• 2025-11-13
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will consider introducing legislation to protect renters who are in a subletting arrangement and not covered under the Tendencies Residence Act; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62310/25]
• 2025-11-13
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will consider introducing legislation to protect renters in digs accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62311/25]
• 2025-11-13
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on the failure of timely housing delivery at an affordable purchase housing project (details supplied); and the measures he will implement to ensure that applicants do not suffer hardship as a consequence of these delays. [62375/25]
• 2025-11-13
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an overview of the legislation governing medical priority in allocation of social homes and supported tenancies. [62420/25]
• 2025-11-13
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to outline any role for agencies and departments outside of his remit in determining eligibility for medical priority in allocation of social homes and supported tenancies. [62421/25]
• 2025-11-04
  PQ
  Asked Education

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education and Youth if her Department will commit to a full audit of the current building housing a school (details supplied), with a view to securing significant refurbishment funding or facilitating a move to a new fit-for-purpose building, given ongoing safety concerns raised by the school's management. [59837/25]
• 2025-11-04
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 479 of 21 October 2025, the way in which the funding for housing programmes is made to local authorities as programmes and projects advance and relevant claims fall due for payment. [58573/25]
• 2025-11-04
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 479 of 21 October 2025, the details of any data collected in relation to funding for any social or affordable housing programme that is unspent by local authorities, or which has not been drawn down, after it has been approved. [58574/25]
• 2025-11-04
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 479 of 21 October 2025, the regional breakdown, by local authority, of spending on social and affordable housing by the Land Development Agency, Housing Finance Agency, or any other agency under his remit for 2025. [58575/25]
• 2025-10-21
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount that has been allocated to each local authority under each programme for the delivery of social and affordable housing in 2025, including any loans; of this, the amount that has been drawn down to date; and of this, the amount that has been spent to date, broken down by local authority and funding stream. [57329/25]
• 2025-10-21
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount that has been allocated to each local authority to retrofit homes in 2025, including any loans; of this, the amount that has been drawn down to date; and of this, the amount that has been spent to date, broken down by local authority and funding stream. [57330/25]
• 2025-10-14
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is aware of the ongoing misuse of the protected title ‘architect’ by a person (details supplied); if he is satisfied that the RIAI’s enforcement approach is adequate; and the steps his Department will take to ensure that persistent misuse of the protected title is treated with the seriousness intended by section 18 of the Building Control Act 2007. [54642/25]
• 2025-10-14
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is satisfied with the enforcement mechanisms under section 18 of the Building Control Act 2007 regarding the misuse of the protected title ‘architect’; his views on whether the current approach by the RIAI, which relies heavily on giving unregistered individuals the opportunity to comply rather than prosecuting persistent offenders, leaves a gap in enforcement; the reforms or directions being considered to strengthen accountability; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54643/25]
• 2025-10-14
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if, given spiralling building material and tradespeople costs, he will consider substantially raising the maximum adaptation grant of €40,000, which older and disabled people report as being significantly inadequate to cover the costs of necessary adaptations of their homes to facilitate independent living; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54854/25]
• 2025-10-07
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide the data he has available on the number of households that were rendered ineligible for social housing due to an uplift to the working families payment in January 2025. [53167/25]
• 2025-10-07
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a summary of all changes to the rental accommodation scheme in the past year, including any relevant circulars issued to local authorities, any changes to relevant regulations, any new funding made available for the scheme; and whether the scheme is now available to new applicants who are at risk of homelessness. [53229/25]
• 2025-09-30
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on proposals to review planning laws in relation to permitting the installation of cabin-type accommodation in back gardens to temporarily house family members who cannot source housing elsewhere in view of the current housing crisis; if he will confirm that permissions will be granted solely to accommodate family members with strict criteria to preclude exploitation of the relaxation of rules for profit; if he will indicate when the review will be completed and published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51108/25]
• 2025-09-30
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will consider conducting an audit to date of a public project's (details supplied) financial, physical, social, and economic aspects following the closure of multiple organisations tasked with delivering the project and the previous publication of a Comptroller and Auditor General Report identifying large cost overruns, delays to delivery of physical regeneration and numerous other failings. [51290/25]
• 2025-09-29
  LOBBY
  Dun Laoghaire Rathdown Chamber of Commerce 2 returns Housing

  • Unlocking Housing Supply in Growth Areas
  • Unlocking Housing Supply in Growth Areas
• 2025-09-19
  LOBBY
  Friends of the Earth Housing

  • Input into Housing Committee Work 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
  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
  The Wheel Community

  • The Wheel hosted launch event for our Pre-Budget Submission 2026. It comprised a panel discussion with speakers from community and voluntary organisations and an overview of The Wheel's priorities for Budget 2026. We invited Ministers, TDs and Senators from the most relevant departments and joint Oireachtas committees and several attended in person.
• 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
• 2025-09-15
  LOBBY
  HAIL - Housing Association for Integrated Living Housing

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

  • Email to Joint Oireachtas Housing Committee on Solutions Re: Homelessness
• 2025-09-10
  LOBBY
  Saint John of God Community Services Limited Finance

  • Trying to increase funding for housing and to resolve reduced respite and trying to gain access to CAS/CALF funding.
• 2025-09-10
  LOBBY
  Irish Wheelchair Association (IWA) Finance

  • Lobbied Government officials on IWA's Prebudget submission, which included areas such as Cost of Disability Payment, Funding for services, Transport, Housing, Community Services Access and Sport
• 2025-09-08
  LOBBY
  Threshold 2 returns Housing

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

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to respond to concerns (details supplied) that his Department’s diaspora survey did not include questions related to housing. [46742/25]
• 2025-09-08
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to respond to concerns that existing housing schemes functionally exclude many single individuals (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45856/25]
• 2025-09-08
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of Part V homes bought, by each local authority, in 2023 and 2024; the average cost of each home; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46449/25]
• 2025-09-08
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an estimated unit cost to the Exchequer for providing cost rental homes,1-, 2-, 3- and 4-bedroom; and for providing affordable homes, 1-, 2-, 3- and 4-bedroom; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46450/25]
• 2025-09-08
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated full-year cost of increasing HAP limits to the average cost of rents in each area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46451/25]
• 2025-09-08
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated cost of 100 percent redress for building defects affected homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46452/25]
• 2025-09-08
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated cost of 100 percent redress for mica affected homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46453/25]
• 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 Finance

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance given that states generally have access to cheaper finance than the private sector, to outline the differences in financing costs for the delivery of large social housing projects compared to large private housing projects (details supplied). [44353/25]
• 2025-07-29
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to estimate the full year cost of the maintenance of local authority rented homes, broken down by local authority. [42731/25]
• 2025-07-29
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage whether his Department has made any funding available to local authorities to appoint vacancy officers to manage social housing voids; and if so, how much funding for each local authority. [42962/25]
• 2025-07-29
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of vacancy officers employed by local authorities nationwide, broken down by local authority. [42963/25]
• 2025-07-29
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated one-year cost of removing all income thresholds for social housing eligibility. [44343/25]
• 2025-07-29
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on the potential for revenue raising through the application of differential rents to individuals on high incomes were the income thresholds for social housing eligibility removed. [44344/25]
• 2025-07-29
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated one-year cost of adding all social welfare payments to the income disregards for social housing eligibility. [44345/25]
• 2025-07-29
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated costs of establishing a monitoring body which will conduct regular inspections of private rental units to ensure compliance with local and national standards; and further to the costs of establishing this body, the potential costs of running it for one year. [44347/25]
• 2025-07-29
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated costs of establishing an independent Traveller-specific housing agency to oversee the delivery of culturally appropriate Traveller accommodation nationwide; and the estimated costs of delivering housing for all Travellers who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. [44348/25]
• 2025-07-29
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated costs of building 66,910 homes on the 83 parcels of disused and underused land in public ownership identified by the Land Development Agency; and to provide an update on the status of these parcels (details supplied). [44350/25]
• 2025-07-29
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on whether it is consistent with national policy that a local authority in Dublin has voted to reduce the density of zoned housing on a vacant parcel of land (details supplied). [44352/25]
• 2025-07-09
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage whether he will legislate to ensure that there is an obligation on landlords and letting agents to inform tenants of any overpayments they may have made. [38047/25]
• 2025-07-01
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of hectares of land zoned under the residential zoned land tax that is currently undeveloped; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35623/25]
• 2025-06-24
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for a full list of all documents, reports, strategies, and resources that have been “unpublished” by his Department over the past ten years (details supplied), including all such materials that have been “unpublished” by divisions, sections and units of his Department that became part of the Minister’s Department following a transfer of functions; and who “unpublished” the materials under a different Minister or Department. [33810/25]
• 2025-06-17
  PQ
  Asked Taoiseach

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach for an update on the work of the housing and infrastructure unit within his Department. [32520/25]
• 2025-06-17
  PQ
  Asked Finance

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance the estimated full-year cost of abolishing the local property tax and introducing a tax on non-principal private residences (NPPR) as follows: single NPPR– €1,000, ten or less NPPRs–€1,500 per property, and 11 or more NPPRs– €2,500 per property, excluding properties owned by local authorities and approved housing bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32669/25]
• 2025-06-17
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for a detailed update on the status of PPP bundles 4,5,6 and 7, given the withdrawal of funding for bundle 3; and whether there is a risk that costs will limit delivery of any projects in future, as happened with bundle 3. [32296/25]
• 2025-06-17
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on the impact of delays to delivery of PPP bundle 3 on social housing delivery in Dublin northwest, where 183 social homes are now delayed, representing a significant proportion of projected delivery over the next two years. [32297/25]
• 2025-06-17
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for a detailed update on discussions between the LDA and Dublin City Council in relation to the Ballymun LAP site 1, a former shopping centre. [32298/25]
• 2025-06-17
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to outline, given that rents in Ireland are extremely high by European standards, how the Government expects a loosening of rent pressure zone rules to contribute to the lowering of rents given that the proposed reforms facilitate an increase in rents. [32530/25]
• 2025-06-17
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the third draft of the byelaws given to him in September 2024 by Waterways Ireland officials, without being reviewed with stakeholders, without restarting the 90 days of consultation period and effectively not complying with the recommendation of the Oireachtas Committee on Housing (details supplied). [32693/25]
• 2025-06-10
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the most up-to-date resources with respect to design of social homes; and the guidelines in place at the national level for same. [29506/25]
• 2025-05-27
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 512 of 25 February 2025, his views on whether it is consistent with the aims of the Pathways to Work 2021-2025 strategy, namely that whether on welfare, in employment or a combination of both, a person can be assured of a minimum basic income and a person in employment will always receive more than they would if reliant on welfare alone (details supplied), given that individuals can be rendered ineligible for social housing on the basis of employment or on the basis of hardship payments, and consequently see a substantial fall in disposable income; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26730/25]
• 2025-05-27
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he has considered that income limits for social housing eligibility act as a “welfare cliff” (details supplied) that disincentivise eligible individuals from taking up employment or applying for promotion. [26723/25]
• 2025-05-27
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for details of any engagements with his colleagues in the Department of Social Protection or the Department of Enterprise, Tourism and Employment regarding the impact of social housing income limits on the behaviours of individuals who are on the housing list or preparing to apply for the list; if, in particular, the limits disincentivise taking up employment or applying for payments to which an individual may otherwise be entitled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26724/25]
• 2025-05-27
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to outline, given that social housing is a key part of the architecture of social protection in Ireland, his views on whether his Department’s approach to social housing income limits is consistent with the aims of the Pathways to Work 2021-2025 strategy; namely, that whether on welfare, in employment or a combination of both a person can be assured of a minimum basic income and that a person in employment will always receive more than they would if reliant on welfare alone (details supplied). [26725/25]
• 2025-05-27
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for details of any research, completed or ongoing, concerning the impact of social housing income limits on the behaviours of individuals who are on the housing list or preparing to apply for the list; whether, in particular, the limits disincentivise taking up employment or applying for payments to which an individual may otherwise be entitled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26726/25]
• 2025-05-27
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage whether legislation will be progressed indexing income limits for social housing eligibility to either inflation, the minimum wage, the median wage, average industrial wage, or lower quartile wage to reflect the decline in purchasing power over time of incomes that were previously considered to be too high for a person to be eligible. [26727/25]
• 2025-05-27
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is aware that there are income gaps in the available housing schemes operated by his Department and by local authorities whereby a person’s income may be too high for social housing eligibility and at the same time too low for any available cost rental options or to take advantage of schemes for first-time buyers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26728/25]
• 2025-05-27
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will consider abolishing the income limits for social housing eligibility and fund a universally accessible social housing system through a scheme of differential rents. [26729/25]
• 2025-05-22
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will clarify the rationale for the removal of a person from the housing waiting list and all the years they have accrued as a result of being temporarily over the income threshold limit (details supplied); his views on whether this is a very harsh penalty for those who remain in housing need and who, upon being assessed as eligible to reapply, have to begin a long process of waiting again, despite having had significant prior years on the waiting list; if he will examine a case for reinstating the lost years minus the one year of being over the threshold; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26391/25]
• 2025-05-22
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to detail all recourse, including legal recourse, available to individuals who have been removed from local authority housing waiting lists (details supplied). [26392/25]
• 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
• 2025-05-16
  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
• 2025-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the policies and regulations that exist in respect of residents in homeless accommodation seeking to make a complaint about the facility at which they reside. [23188/25]
• 2025-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 1221 of 29 April 2025, for details of analysis undertaken by his Department with respect to the implications of expansion of rural one-off housing for cost of public service delivery in the relevant areas. [23259/25]
• 2025-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 1221 of 29 April 2025, for details of analysis undertaken by his Department with respect to the implications of expansion of rural one-off housing for infrastructure costs in the relevant areas. [23260/25]
• 2025-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 1221 of 29 April 2025, for details of analysis undertaken by his Department with respect to the implications of expansion of rural one-off housing for the local environment, including risk of water contamination as a consequence of reliance on private septic tanks. [23261/25]
• 2025-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 1221 of 29 April 2025, for details of analysis undertaken by his Department with respect to the implications of expansion of rural one-off housing for public health as a consequence of reliance on private wells for household water and the propensity of private wells to become contaminated with VTEC and other dangerous infections. [23262/25]
• 2025-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 1221 of 29 April 2025, for details of analysis undertaken by his Department with respect to the implications of expansion of rural one-off housing for carbon emissions as a consequence of the less efficient heat retention by detached homes. [23263/25]
• 2025-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 1221 of 29 April 2025, for details of analysis undertaken by his Department with respect to the implications of expansion of rural one-off housing for carbon emissions as a consequence of reliance on private cars for transportation. [23264/25]
• 2025-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 1221 of 29 April 2025, for details of analysis undertaken by his Department with respect to the implications of expansion of rural one-off housing for biodiversity as a consequence of reliance on transportation by private car given the greater biodiversity of remote areas and the land use implications of private cars (details supplied). [23265/25]
• 2025-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 1221 of 29 April 2025, for details of analysis undertaken by his department with respect to the implications of expansion of rural one-off housing for natural disaster resilience given the greater fragility of infrastructure and in remote areas and distance from emergency responders. [23266/25]
• 2025-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 1221 of 29 April 2025, for details of analysis undertaken by his Department with respect to the implications of expansion of rural one-off housing for unanticipated household costs, considering that there is greater exposure to fluctuations in global fuel prices where there is greater reliance on private cars, and in light of research suggesting households underestimate costs of keeping a private car (details supplied). [23267/25]
• 2025-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of housing first tenancies that will be made available in the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown area in the next year. [23985/25]
• 2025-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to offer guidance on how individuals can be referred for consideration for a housing first tenancy. [23986/25]
• 2025-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage whether legislation will be progressed to transfer the powers of local authority chief executives to the elected council Mayors, Lord Mayors and Cathaoirligh so that council decision-making reflects local views as expressed in local elections; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23987/25]
• 2025-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is considering any policy measures to expand public land holdings in Irish cities and bring them in line with cities like Helsinki where 70% of land is in public ownership; his views on how such a policy might support housing delivery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23988/25]
• 2025-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for details of the number of architects currently employed by local authorities, broken down by local authority; the number of vacant local authority architect posts there are, broken down by local authority; and for details of any plans to increase the number employed. [23989/25]
• 2025-05-13
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for details of the qualifications required to take up a post as a local authority medical adjudicator. [23990/25]
• 2025-05-09
  LOBBY
  Saint John of God Community Services Limited Finance

  • Lobbying for adequate funding for housing and respite
• 2025-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of proposals from each of the local authorities and from the Land Development Agency for housing developments, either social or affordable homes, which are awaiting approval from his Department; the aggregate number of homes involved; and the average turnaround time for approvals. [22916/25]
• 2025-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide data on the number of people earning more than €100,000 per year from employment in the public sector including departments, agencies, State owned companies and semi-State companies, broken down by their employing public sector body and the value of the salaries. [23740/25]
• 2025-05-07
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if a person, who has obtained a debt relief notice which includes rent arrears, can be penalised by a local authority by putting a social housing transfer on hold pending payment of arrears on their rent account; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22298/25]
• 2025-05-07
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 1230 of 29 April 2025, the details of the Dublin Region Homeless Executive inspectorate including any process for making complaints to the inspectorate and the purpose and terms of reference of the inspectorate. [22572/25]
• 2025-04-29
  PQ
  Asked Taoiseach

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [15507/25]
• 2025-04-29
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if inspections were conducted prior to the acquisition by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council of 12 homes at Holly Park estate, Shankill; if any structural defects, dampness, ventilation issues or other safety concerns were identified; whether any remedial works were required or carried out either before or after the acquisition; the total cost to the council for the acquisition; if he is aware that many of the tenants allocated these homes were HAP tenants previously living in overcrowded private accommodation; if the council was aware of this when allocating the properties; if these tenants can now be required to accept allocations that would lock them into overcrowded conditions in the long term; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18874/25]
• 2025-04-29
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the details of all services, grants, loans and payments available to individuals or households funded by his Department and agencies under his remit; the eligibility requirements and any conditionality for receiving the service, grant, loan or payment (details supplied); and the monetary value, or range of values, of the service, grant, loans or payment, where applicable. [19176/25]
• 2025-04-29
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the way in which he plans to safeguard crucial programmes like Housing First while several of such organisations are in crisis (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19220/25]
• 2025-04-29
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the justification in the Programme for Government commitment to continue to support one-off, rural housing (details supplied). [19395/25]
• 2025-04-29
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will consider advocating for a ban on data centre construction in areas of high housing need (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19404/25]
• 2025-04-29
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason emergency accommodation services are regulated by the Dublin Region Homeless Executive rather than HIQA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19545/25]
• 2025-04-08
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he has been in communication with the Department for Social Protection as part of the interdepartmental working group tasked with assessing the impact of a new, non-binary, category of gender on existing legislation; when he is planning the next meeting with the representatives from the Department for Social Protection to investigate legislative implications of non-binary gender recognition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17542/25]
• 2025-04-01
  PQ
  Asked Education

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education further to Parliamentary Question No. 359 of 25 March 2025, and respecting that existing accommodation must be used to meet the demand for special school places in north Dublin, the reason her Department is seeking to use prefabricated buildings on outdoor space belonging to an existing school rather housing the new school in "phase 2" of that same existing school, given that the latter proposal is supported by the school, is consistent with inclusive education policy, and would provide better learning conditions for the staff and students of the new school and considering that both proposals qualify as making use of existing accommodation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15523/25]
• 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
• 2025-03-20
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans to update the National Development Plan to ensure adequate water and other infrastructure to facilitate the construction new homes are built; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5110/25]
• 2025-03-19
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of applications for emergency replacement mobile homes or caravans that have been received by his Department; the number that have been approved and or are still under consideration and or have been rejected, by local authority; the estimated number of applications his Department expects to receive; the anticipated timescale to deal with all such requests after storm Éowyn; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11449/25]
• 2025-03-19
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the delay in appointing a Minister of State for Traveller Accommodation is adding to delays in administering this emergency funding to Traveller families rendered homeless after storm Éowyn; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11450/25]
• 2025-02-25
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if assistance is available to families who go above the income threshold for social housing supports due to the automatic payment of working family payment arising from a reduction in income that year, and therefore lose their cumulative waiting time on the housing list. [7451/25]
• 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
• 2025-02-13
  PQ
  Asked Finance

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance if he is planning to close tax incentives benefitting vulture funds, other property-related investment funds and profit driven investors to prevent them buying up residential property given the on-going housing crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5109/25]
• 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 Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of homes that went sale agreed in 2024; how many of these were apartments and how many were houses; the number bought by individuals; the number bought by institutions; the number bought by local authorities; how many of the individuals that bought these homes were first-time buyers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4632/25]
• 2025-02-06
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a detailed breakdown of all funding allocated for the year ahead or spent in the past fiscal year by his Department on artificial intelligence systems or artificial intelligence research; what programmes or Department operations are conducted using artificial intelligence tools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3711/25]
• 2025-02-06
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of children are now in emergency homeless accommodation; to provide details on the length of time children are being left in emergency accommodation under the following categories: 1-6 months, 6-9 months, 9-12 months, 12-18 months, 18-24 months, and more than 24 months; if he has any policy or plans to establish a policy of a maximum stay time in emergency accomodation for children, given the seriously adverse impact on their well-being; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3930/25]
• 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.
• 2025-01-20
  LOBBY
  Threshold 3 returns Housing

  • Programme for Government
  • Threshold's conference 'Changing our Housing System'
  • 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
  ALONE Health

  • Support for services and policies relating to older people in the General Election and Programme for Government
• 2025-01-20
  LOBBY
  Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation Health

  • INMO Pre-Budget Submission for 2025 Budget
• 2025-01-20
  LOBBY
  Monkstown Abbey Road Residents Association Local Government

  • Public meeting to raise awareness about planning housing and traffic concerns
• 2025-01-18
  LOBBY
  The Irish Farmers' Association - IFA Budgetary matters

  • Finance Bill 2024
• 2024-11-18
  LOBBY
  Sisters of Mercy Energy and Natural Resources

  • A Climate Voter Request to Election Candidates to sign a climate pledge
• 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 Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will implement a review of how the HMD form is working across councils to ascertain whether it places too heavy a load on disabled and ill people (the very people it is supposed to help); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42962/24]
• 2024-10-22
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will review the affordable housing scheme to ensure that these houses are actually affordable, regardless of location; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42963/24]
• 2024-10-22
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans to implement the recommendations of the Housing Commission report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42964/24]
• 2024-10-22
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the new resources he will make available to the DRHE in 2025 considering the relentless increase in numbers of people availing of emergency accommodation across the city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42965/24]
• 2024-10-16
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to contact co-operative housing and DLR with regard to the new social housing development called St. Germaine, in Ballybrack village, to investigate the complaints by residents of major and multiple defects in this new development including serious damp, potentially dangerous electrics and serious, reported fire hazards and many others, to investigate the necessity of an independent assessment and to ensure the residents are informed of these enquiries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42096/24]
• 2024-09-19
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will ensure that the tenant-in-situ and cost-rental tenant-in-situ schemes are a demand-led programme, and that any house that can be purchased by a county council to avoid homelessness is purchased in a timely manner; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37003/24]
• 2024-09-19
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is proposing to increase the social housing income eligibility thresholds, and the problem of people being removed from the list after many years waiting due to their income going slightly over the threshold, and that when people who do go over these thresholds, they are no longer eligible for any housing support, regardless of the amount over the threshold; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37002/24]
• 2024-09-19
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if, in the aftermath of the Housing Commission report, he agrees that housing output should increase to 60,000 new homes per year to address future housing need and the current housing deficit; whether he agrees, given the chronic deficit of social and affordable housing, that at least 50% of this output should be social and affordable; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37004/24]
• 2024-09-19
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will take measures to accelerate the processing time of housing applications and disability or medical information forms; if he will address the issue of frequent refusals of medical priority and need, despite overwhelming medical and welfare evidence to the contrary that priority is required and that particular medical needs should be accommodated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37001/24]
• 2024-09-19
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the measures his Department is taking to ensure that the affordable to purchase housing at Shanganagh, and on all other publicly provided affordable housing schemes, will be genuinely affordable for those on average incomes. [36999/24]
• 2024-09-19
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the discussions he has had, or is planning, with the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage in light of the Government acknowledgement, and the recent ESRI report, on the need to significantly increase housing delivery targets over the coming years, and the public expenditure implications of such a revision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29520/24]
• 2024-09-18
  PQ
  Asked Taoiseach

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will meet next. [36723/24]
• 2024-09-18
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated cost of raising the current social housing income eligibility thresholds by €10,000 per year nationwide, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36740/24]
• 2024-09-18
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the latest figures on the number of households on the HAP and RAS schemes and rent allowance respectively; the cost of each, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36741/24]
• 2024-09-18
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of households currently privately renting their principal residence; the number of those households that are within the social housing income limits; the number within the cost rental income limits; the number above those limits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36742/24]
• 2024-09-18
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he intends to raise the advisory price limits on the tenant-in-situ scheme for county councils, due to the inflation of house prices in recent years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36783/24]
• 2024-09-18
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for a report on the cost-rental tenant-in-situ and the tenant-in-situ programmes, broken down by local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36958/24]
• 2024-09-18
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for a report on the retrofit programme, broken down by local authority, with details of the numbers completed and the plan to retrofit all homes in State stock; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36959/24]
• 2024-09-18
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will put in place a solar panel support scheme for local authority tenants, administered by councils where the council takes on the upfront costs and tenants pay back over a period of time while their bills reduce; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36964/24]
• 2024-09-09
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1997 was intended to disallow a person on a probation bond from access to the social housing list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34733/24]
• 2024-09-09
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage how co-living is defined in legislation in terms of the minimum length of stay below which it is no longer a co-living tenancy but a short-term stay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35404/24]
• 2024-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average cost of acquiring 1, 2, 3 and 4-bed homes, per unit in Dublin under the various different acquisitions programmes and schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32495/24]
• 2024-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average cost of acquiring 1, 2, 3 and 4 bed homes, per unit, outside Dublin under the various different acquisitions programmes and schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32496/24]
• 2024-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated per year cost of planned Part V purchases under Housing for All, the projected cost per unit for 1, 2, 3 and 4-bed homes; the number planned to be purchased for each year, broken down by local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32497/24]
• 2024-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of Part V homes bought, by each local authority in 2022 and 2023; the average cost of each home; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32498/24]
• 2024-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the construction cost of building 1, 2, 3 and 4-bed homes on local authority land; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32499/24]
• 2024-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of homes built by local authorities or AHBs under each different funding stream; the cost, size and county of each of these homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32500/24]
• 2024-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of affordable to purchase homes have been delivered by each individual council over 2022 and 2023; the cost to the Exchequer of these homes, broken down by council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32501/24]
• 2024-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated full year cost to the Exchequer of increasing income limits for social housing by 20%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32502/24]
• 2024-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated full year cost of providing enough women’s refuge places to bring Ireland in line with our commitments under the Istanbul Convention. [32503/24]
• 2024-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated full year cost of increasing the number of refuge places to 300; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32504/24]
• 2024-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated full-year cost of providing emergency accommodation for homeless people in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32505/24]
• 2024-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated full-year cost of providing emergency accommodation for homeless people in Dublin in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32506/24]
• 2024-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the full year cost of doubling Traveller specific accommodation capacity. [32507/24]
• 2024-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated full year cost of establishing a Traveller ombudsman. [32508/24]
• 2024-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated full year cost of increasing HAP limits to the average cost of rents in each area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32509/24]
• 2024-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated full cost of retrofitting all local authority owned homes by 2030 and the estimated average cost per home in 2025; the number to be carried out in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32510/24]
• 2024-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the expected revenue yield from an increase in the derelict site levy to 20% in a full year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32512/24]
• 2024-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated cost of increasing Part V to 25% social and 25% affordable over the next five years and in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32513/24]
• 2024-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated cost of purchasing 50% rather than the minimum of 10% under the Part V requirements or 20% under the new part V requirements of all residential units due to be completed in 2025 and 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32514/24]
• 2024-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated cost of 100% redress for mica affected homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32515/24]
• 2024-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated cost of 100% redress for buildings defects redress affected homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32516/24]
• 2024-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated full-year cost of bringing the housing adaptation income limits and the maximum grants in line with inflation and the real costs of major adaptations such as full rewiring and reroofing. [32605/24]
• 2024-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the full-year cost to increase the house building targets to 56,000 per annum, in line with the recommendations from the Housing Commission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33421/24]
• 2024-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to estimate the total cost and the per-annum cost of increasing the number of social homes to 20% of the total number of all homes over the next five years (allowing for overall housing output to increase to 56,000 units per annum, as per the Housing Commission recommended targets); the estimated full-year cost in year one of this project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33422/24]
• 2024-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated full-year additional cost in 2025 and each of the following four years (2026, 2027, 2028, 2029) of doubling the existing Housing for All targets for social, cost rental and affordable purchase homes respectively, setting out the Government’s own projected estimates for the costs of delivering on the current targets for Housing for All for each housing type, per unit and per year; to provide the cost estimates, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33424/24]
• 2024-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the full details of the different streams of funding for local authorities and the areas in which this money can be spent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33425/24]
• 2024-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the full total of the spend by each local authority on housing maintenance; if all of this funding comes from rent collected in each local authority; if they have latitude to increase this figure or seek additional funds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33426/24]
• 2024-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to estimate the full-year cost or savings from using direct labour for housing maintenance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33427/24]
• 2024-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of local authority homes, broken down by local authority, that have chronic damp problems; his plans to address this; the estimated cost of doing so; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33428/24]
• 2024-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he has carried out any cost-benefit analyses of in-house maintenance versus outsourcing across all local authorities. [33429/24]
• 2024-07-09
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage what affordable housing will be or has been provided in Cherrywood in return for the Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund providing funding; the price of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29128/24]
• 2024-07-09
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide the details of the prices being set for affordable purchase and cost rental in Shanganagh; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29129/24]
• 2024-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated cost to the social housing retrofitting scheme of retrofitting all remaining local authority housing stock that is below a B3 BER rating; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28890/24]
• 2024-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated cost of extending the social housing retrofitting scheme to Approved Housing Bodies and retrofitting all AHB housing stock that is below a B3 BER rating; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28891/24]
• 2024-06-25
  PQ
  Asked Taoiseach

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will meet again. [25447/24]
• 2024-06-25
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will outline, with regard to the local authority shared ownership scheme, and given the obligation on local authorities to keep legal costs to a minimum, what recourse an individual (details supplied) has if they feel that their local authority is imposing onerous conditions on the sale of their shared ownership scheme apartment, where the individual does not have the financial resources to risk litigating the conditions imposed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27213/24]
• 2024-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of households currently renting a house or flat from a local authority. [24724/24]
• 2024-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of local authority homes that have been sold to tenants in the past ten, twenty and thirty years. [24725/24]
• 2024-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage of those currently renting a house or apartment from the local authority, the number that have Irish citizenship. [24726/24]
• 2024-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage of those renting a house or apartment from local authority, the number that have non-EU citizenship; and of these, the number that have British citizenship. [24727/24]
• 2024-05-30
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to outline his plans to further strengthen the capacity of local authorities to increase delivery of social housing, as stated in the strategic investment priorities of the National Development Plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18087/24]
• 2024-05-30
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is considering additional funding to the Land Development Agency for a specific purpose of funding acquisition of long-term vacant and derelict buildings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19524/24]
• 2024-05-30
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is planning any further spending on capacity and resources for local authorities to tackle vacancy and dereliction of properties and to increase the stock of social and affordable housing as indicated in the NDP; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16221/24]
• 2024-05-28
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage what grants or supports are available to a person with intellectual disabilities owing to an injury (details supplied), where the individual received a substantial compensation award on foot of this injury and whose assessed income therefore disqualifies them for social housing; whether this award can be excluded for the purposes of income assessment; what non-means tested housing supports are available to the person; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23561/24]
• 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 Finance

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance if he is considering further taxation measures to address the issues of long-term vacancy, dereliction, land hoarding and property speculation in light of the severe housing crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23005/24]
• 2024-05-21
  PQ
  Asked Finance

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance if, given the urgency of boosting housing supply, he is considering further changes to the residential zoned land tax to accelerate activation of residential zoned land; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22766/24]
• 2024-05-21
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will outline, given that applicants for social housing require a demonstrated connection to the area in which they are applying, how somebody (details supplied) who has recently received a stamp 4 visa, despite having lived without documentation in Dublin city for the past 12 years in various hostels, demonstrated eligibility; and what documentation will be required for them to establish eligibility for social housing in order that they can find housing. [22613/24]
• 2024-05-21
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if, in relation to the Housing Agency’s Housing First policy, acknowledging that hostel accommodation is unsuitable for some individuals recovering from substance addictions, how an individual who is receiving residential treatment for addiction, but who is not approaching housing through the housing list, can find accommodation suitable to their addiction journey after their time in residential treatment comes to an end; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22833/24]
• 2024-05-02
  PQ
  Asked Public Expenditure

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if he is considering further funding for local authorities to support maintenance and repairs of council provided services, such as housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19520/24]
• 2024-05-01
  PQ
  Asked Taoiseach

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [10626/24]
• 2024-04-23
  PQ
  Asked Public Expenditure

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if he is planning further updates to the national development plan in light of the growing consensus that Ireland’s housing demand will significantly exceed current projections and plans; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18088/24]
• 2024-04-23
  PQ
  Asked Public Expenditure

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if he is aware of the issues raised by the Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, in respect of the national development plan (details supplied), particularly in terms of capacity and resource constraints to deliver public housing, elder-care facilities and childcare and increase the number of hospital beds; his plans to address these issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17863/24]
• 2024-04-23
  PQ
  Asked Public Expenditure

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform whether the national development plan has sufficiently considered and is adequately resourced to deliver community and cultural amenities and services needed to accompany increased residential construction and housing demand; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17861/24]
• 2024-04-23
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the policies and supports in place for individuals who previously met the threshold for a cost-rental property and who are permanently housed in a cost-rental unit, if the person’s income falls significantly due to illness or injury; the procedures in place to convert a cost-rental property into a social home where this is necessary due to a change in the ability of the occupant to pay for cost-rental tenure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17693/24]
• 2024-04-11
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is aware of the recent report to area committee from DLR that only 140 affordable Purchase and 406 Cost rental are planned up to 2026 and does he agree this is wholly inadequate and what measures does he intend to take to address this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15656/24]
• 2024-04-11
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he agrees that inadequate HAP rates and social housing income limits and the lack of three and four-bed social housing are contributing to long-term homelessness; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15659/24]
• 2024-04-11
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he believes that considering the rapid increase in homelessness and the widespread unaffordability of rental and purchase property that the current Part V requirement for 10% social and 10% affordable are wholly inadequate and should be substantially increased; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15658/24]
• 2024-04-11
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage in cases of complaints of unauthorised development or breaches of planning permissions if he believes the current enforcement legislation is adequately robust to prevent such breaches; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15657/24]
• 2024-04-09
  PQ
  Asked Health

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health if the HSE Dublin south primary care teams provide occupational therapy report services for housing assessment needs; the avenues for a local authority tenant to access HSE primary care teams OT services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14042/24]
• 2024-03-20
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if a tenant’s top-up led them to accumulating arrears would he consider HAP rates for this case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11788/24]
• 2024-03-20
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason part V council tenancies are excluded from the tenant purchase scheme when other tenants of council owned houses are included in the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12873/24]
• 2024-02-20
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the implications for a RAS tenant, considering RAS is designated like social housing as social housing support, whose income goes over the income limit, who pays rent in line with the increased income but then receives a notice to quit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7675/24]
• 2024-02-15
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he now accepts the need for an outright ban on vulture funds purchasing large numbers of new homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7011/24]
• 2024-02-15
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the measures he intends to put in place to ensure availability of affordable homes in south Dublin, in particular; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7012/24]
• 2024-02-15
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the steps he will take in relation to the cohort of people who earn more than the limit for social housing but are not eligible for cost rental on affordability grounds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7010/24]
• 2024-02-15
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will immediately raise the HAP and homeless HAP limits, considering the ever increasing numbers entering homelessness; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7013/24]
• 2024-02-15
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is concerned about the increase in family homelessness and the lack of three bed homes coming on stream via the Part V programme; what changes he intends to make to address this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7014/24]
• 2024-02-08
  PQ
  Asked Public Expenditure

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if he will consider the establishment of a state-run construction company to assist in achieving the National Development Plan goals and particularly the urgent need to address the housing crisis and critical infrastructure development. [5956/24]
• 2024-01-30
  PQ
  Asked Taoiseach

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach to provide an update on Housing for All. [2795/24]
• 2024-01-24
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will lift the mandatory 90-day period for being declared homeless for HAP tenants if the tenant finds a property before the 90 days; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3173/24]
• 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 Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if guardianship payments are assessable income for social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2887/24]
• 2024-01-18
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the guidelines set out in section 4.2.4 of the national guidelines for the assessment and allocation process for social housing provision for people with a disability, in relation to the time scale of processing applications, have a statutory footing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2289/24]
• 2024-01-17
  PQ
  Asked Finance

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance if the help-to-buy scheme will be extended to previous home owners who can demonstrate a housing need which they cannot meet for reasons of breakdown of a relationship, insolvency and so on or whether there is any other scheme available to help with a purchase deposit for this cohort; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1550/24]
• 2024-01-17
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if there are plans to remedy the adverse effects made to households by vegetation from public and private lands, including the obstruction of natural light; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56639/23]
• 2024-01-17
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 48 of 6 July 2023, whether the statistical data referred to in relation to the tenant-in-situ scheme has been published yet; if not, when it will be available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1340/24]
• 2023-12-13
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide details on the targets and delivery of social and affordable housing, including targets for cost rental, LA or AHB provided affordable to buy and social, since the beginning of Housing for All and the actual delivery of each type up to end of quarter 3 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55692/23]
• 2023-12-07
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to report on the sharp increase in family homelessness, and what measures he intends to take to ensure that this trend is reversed as a matter of urgency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54220/23]
• 2023-12-07
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to report on the progress of the cost rental delivery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54223/23]
• 2023-12-07
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will increase the HAP limits in line with rents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54222/23]
• 2023-12-07
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to outline when he intends to bring forward the promised "first refusal" legislation with regard to the tenant in situ scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54219/23]
• 2023-12-07
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage what measures he is going to put in place to address those families and individuals in homeless services who are above the income limits for social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54221/23]
• 2023-12-06
  PQ
  Asked Taoiseach

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [53589/23]
• 2023-11-22
  PQ
  Asked Taoiseach

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach to provide a progress report on Housing for All for which his Department is responsible. [51156/23]
• 2023-11-08
  PQ
  Asked Taoiseach

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [46435/23]
• 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 Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will consider including those who wish to down-size to free up a family size home in the 'fresh start' principle for local authority affordable purchase housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47437/23]
• 2023-10-10
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is aware of the scale of no-reason evictions being carried out by a corporate landlord (details supplied) in Dublin in recent months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43656/23]
• 2023-10-10
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage whether he is aware of the scale of no-reason evictions being carried out by other corporate landlords in recent months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43657/23]
• 2023-10-10
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he intends to amend the law to offer protections to people whose pre-June 2022 tenancies are terminated by landlords refusing to offer further part-four tenancies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43658/23]
• 2023-10-10
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he intends to allow compulsory purchase of residential properties in circumstances, consistent with section 43.2 of the Constitution; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43659/23]
• 2023-10-04
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the funds that are available to someone who is eligible for the full housing aid for the older persons' grant, but where the work done in the house is over the €8,000 maximum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42883/23]
• 2023-10-04
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if, in view that the grant maximum for housing aid for older people has not gone up in a number of years, he will consider increasing the grant maximum, to fall in line with the increase in costs for essential housing maintenance, such as rewiring, which costs €10-€15,000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42882/23]
• 2023-09-27
  VOTE
  Affordable Housing

  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion passed · 68–53
• 2023-09-26
  PQ
  Asked Taoiseach

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with housing will next meet. [41208/23]
• 2023-09-20
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to outline the annual capital spend by the Dublin Region Homeless Executive in each year since 2005 of acquiring new emergency accommodation to increase the provision of emergency homeless accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40416/23]
• 2023-09-20
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to outline the average current expenditure by the Dublin Region Homeless Executive in each year since 2005 of leasing or renting emergency accommodation to increase the provision of emergency homeless accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40417/23]
• 2023-09-11
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if, in light of the recently published Fire Safety Code of Practice for defective apartment developments, he will confirm if a centralised scheme run by the Housing Agency and fully-funded by the State will be established to put in place the immediate actions required so that people can live safely in affected apartment complexes; if he will outline when these works will commence given the urgency and if he will commit to ensuring that these works and the associated funding will be brought forward so that people can live safely in their homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37412/23]
• 2023-09-11
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to outline the annual projected breakdown of the € billion per year expenditure for Housing for All, including the following categories: social housing new build; social housing acquisition; cost-rental; affordable, HAP Ras and Leasing; and all other categories of expenditure under this Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39182/23]
• 2023-09-11
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to outline the full cost of setting up the LDA in year 1 and the estimated full year cost to the exchequer in 2024 of the LDA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39308/23]
• 2023-09-11
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of homes delivered in 2022 and in the first six months in 2023 under the following categories - social, affordable, cost rental and to divide out how many were delivered through building or acquisitions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39305/23]
• 2023-09-11
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an estimated unit cost to the Exchequer for providing cost rental homes (1-, 2-, 3- and 4-bedroom) and for providing affordable homes (1-, 2-, 3- and 4-bedroom); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39415/23]
• 2023-09-11
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the full-year cost of running the LDA, including details of number of employees, the average earnings of an LDA employee and the range of incomes of these employees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39417/23]
• 2023-09-11
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the full-year running costs of the local authorities, including details of number of employees, the average earnings of an LA employee, and the range of incomes, by grade (both indoor and outdoor), of these employees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39418/23]
• 2023-07-25
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated cost of setting up a new State construction company; the estimated cost in year one of building 20,000 homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36966/23]
• 2023-07-25
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of homes bought under the tenant-in-situ scheme, broken down by local authority, in 2022 and in the first six months of 2023; how much was spent on each home; the size of these homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36954/23]
• 2023-07-25
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of homes bought under the cost rental tenant in situ scheme, broken down by local authority, in 2022 and in the first six months of 2023; how much was spent on each home; the size of these homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36955/23]
• 2023-07-25
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to outline the process for those eligible for the cost rental tenant in situ scheme to avail of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36956/23]
• 2023-07-25
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of local authority homes that have been retrofitted; the BER rating to which they have been brought up; the average cost per home; how many more local authority homes are due to be retrofitted; the timeline for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36957/23]
• 2023-07-25
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the full-year cost of bringing HAP rates in line with average rents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36958/23]
• 2023-07-25
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide details of the different funding streams for local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36964/23]
• 2023-07-25
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide details of the local government fund, including details of the full-year cost of the fund to the Exchequer in each of the years 2007 to 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36965/23]
• 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 Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the procedures for a tenant on the Drogheda housing list who is moving to a HAP tenancy in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown; which local authority is responsible for making the HAP payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33464/23]
• 2023-07-06
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will consider the creation of a State construction company to directly build both social and affordable housing and to accelerate the retrofitting of local authority housing stock; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33204/23]
• 2023-07-06
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will report on the progress of the tenant-in-situ and the cost-rental tenant-in-situ schemes, including a timeline on bringing in legislation to ensure that the tenant or local authority have first refusal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33205/23]
• 2023-07-06
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to report on the local authority housing stock retrofitting programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33206/23]
• 2023-07-06
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will make changes to the HAP scheme so that there is not a cliff edge if people go over the social housing income limits to ensure that there is tapered rental support for those above the limits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33208/23]
• 2023-07-06
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for the full details of the affordability measures put in place in Cherrywood developments in return for the LIHAF funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33207/23]
• 2023-07-06
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage what changes he intends to make to the cost-rental rules so that those eligible on income grounds are not ineligible on affordability grounds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33209/23]
• 2023-07-06
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a progress report on Housing For All. [30976/23]
• 2023-07-05
  PQ
  Asked Taoiseach

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [32541/23]
• 2023-06-27
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average cost of acquiring one-, two-, three- and four-bedroom homes, per unit, in Dublin under the buy-and-renew scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31064/23]
• 2023-06-27
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average cost of acquiring one-, two-, three- and four-bedroom homes, per unit, outside Dublin under the buy-and-renew scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31065/23]
• 2023-06-27
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 760 of 26 July 2022, if he will provide the number of houses bought by each council for the amounts listed in the table; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31066/23]
• 2023-06-27
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide an update on the proposals from Uisce Éireann to upgrade Ringsend water treatment plant, including a detailed timeline for this and how it will impact on the protection of the bathing waters in Dublin Bay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31101/23]
• 2023-06-20
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the defective apartments and duplexes redress scheme will be enacted; if retrospective applications for redress will be included in the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29324/23]
• 2023-05-25
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if a pension lump sum one-off payment is taken into account when assessing someone for social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25361/23]
• 2023-05-23
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the expected revenue yield from an increase in the derelict site levy to 20% in a full year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24058/23]
• 2023-05-23
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide details of any plans for the regeneration of St. Andrew's Court, Dublin 2; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24374/23]
• 2023-05-23
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he has received any application from Dublin City Council for housing at the St. Andrew's Court site in Dublin 2; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24375/23]
• 2023-05-23
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is aware of any Part 8 or Part 10 plans for St. Andrew's Court, Dublin 2; if so, the stage these plans are at; the number of units; the size unit; the estimated timeframe for when they will be progressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24376/23]
• 2023-05-18
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he has considered grants for mid-to-low-income households that wish to expand their bedroom space through extensions or attic conversions to help address the current housing crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23569/23]
• 2023-05-18
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage what actions he intends to take to close the gap between HAP thresholds and market rents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23566/23]
• 2023-05-18
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage what he intends to do to ensure emergency accommodation is available for those who need it in their local particularly appropriate door accommodation for families and pensioners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23568/23]
• 2023-05-18
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he will introduce legislation or regulations to ensure that the tenant-in-situ and cost rental tenant-in-situ-schemes will include first refusal for the tenant, the council or approved housing bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23565/23]
• 2023-05-18
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage what actions he intends to take to reduce rents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23567/23]
• 2023-05-18
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the measures he or his Department are taking to ensure the delivery of 6,000 affordable homes per year as outlined in NSO 1 of the NDP; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22157/23]
• 2023-05-17
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated cost of 100% redress for Mica-affected homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23509/23]
• 2023-05-17
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated cost of 100% redress for buildings defects redress-affected homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23510/23]
• 2023-05-17
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average cost of acquiring one-, two-, three- and four-bed homes in Dublin under the buy-and-renew scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23511/23]
• 2023-05-17
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average cost of acquiring one-, two-, three- and four-bed homes outside Dublin under the buy-and-renew scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23512/23]
• 2023-05-17
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated per year cost of planned Part V purchases under Housing for All; the projected cost per unit for one-, two-, three- and four-bed homes; the number planned to be purchased for each year, broken down by local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23513/23]
• 2023-05-17
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated construction cost of building one-, two-, three- and four-bed homes on local authority land; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23514/23]
• 2023-05-17
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated full-year cost of providing enough women’s refuge places to bring Ireland in line with its commitments under the Istanbul Convention. [23515/23]
• 2023-05-17
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated full-year cost of increasing the number of refuge places to 300; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23516/23]
• 2023-05-17
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated full-year cost of providing emergency accommodation for homeless people in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23517/23]
• 2023-05-17
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated full-year cost of providing emergency accommodation for homeless people in Dublin in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23518/23]
• 2023-05-17
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated full-year cost of doubling Traveller-specific accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23519/23]
• 2023-05-17
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated full-year cost of establishing a Traveller ombudsman; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23520/23]
• 2023-05-17
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated full-year cost of increasing HAP limits to the average cost of rents in each area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23521/23]
• 2023-05-17
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated full cost of retrofitting all local authority-owned homes by 2030; the estimated average cost per home in 2024; the number to be carried out this year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23522/23]
• 2023-05-17
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated cost of funding local authorities in place of revenue for the local property tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23523/23]
• 2023-05-11
  PQ
  Asked Public Expenditure

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if he has read the Irish Government Economic and Evaluation Service, IGEES, housing analytical notes published on 5 December 2022, particularly the Planning Permissions and Housing Supply analytical note; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22159/23]
• 2023-05-11
  PQ
  Asked Public Expenditure

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if he has relayed to the Government the findings in the Irish Government Economic and Evaluation Service, IGEES, publication, Housing Analytical Notes, published on 5 December 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22158/23]
• 2023-05-10
  PQ
  Asked Taoiseach

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [21530/23]
• 2023-05-09
  PQ
  Asked Finance

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance if he intends to make further tax changes in budget 2024 to address the issue of vacant and derelict properties, given the current housing emergency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21570/23]
• 2023-04-27
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the exact date on which the first-home affordable purchase shared equity scheme will be open for applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20003/23]
• 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
• 2023-04-18
  PQ
  Asked Taoiseach

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach how often every Cabinet committee meets, with particular reference to the committees on health, housing and education. [15432/23]
• 2023-03-29
  PQ
  Asked Taoiseach

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [11605/23]
• 2023-03-29
  PQ
  Asked Taoiseach

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach if he is planning to publish a Housing for All report with the final figures of housing delivered for the whole of 2022; and when he expects to do this. [15431/23]
• 2023-03-28
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage with regards to those families and individuals who were removed from the council housing lists as a result of income limits but who found themselves back under the limits in January when the limits were increased; the exact dates that apply for applicants getting their time back when they are put back on the list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15306/23]
• 2023-03-28
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to outline how the tenant-in-situ scheme will work when a tenant’s home is in a different local authority area to where they are on the housing list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15364/23]
• 2023-03-28
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage how the targets for tenant-in-situ purchases were assigned, and in particular to explain why there has only been a target of 50 homes assigned to Dún Laoghaire Rathdown; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15365/23]
• 2023-03-28
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a comprehensive list of any regulations or guidelines for the tenant-in-situ scheme, and also for the tenant in-situ-scheme where people are above the housing income limits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15366/23]
• 2023-03-23
  PQ
  Asked Education

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education the measures she is intending to bring in to address the high cost of housing which is impacting on the ability of schools to recruit and retain teachers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14162/23]
• 2023-03-21
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide details of the new initiatives for which he has recently got approval from Cabinet (details supplied) that will assist those with eviction notices to buy their own homes or for their homes to transfer to cost-rental; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12919/23]
• 2023-03-21
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide a breakdown of data (details supplied) under several sub-headings for each the past ten years, in tabular form. [12920/23]
• 2023-03-21
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will extend the shared equity scheme to any home that comes under the price threshold and not just designated affordable homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12952/23]
• 2023-03-21
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to the announcement of the end to the eviction ban and his statement in Dáil Éireann (details supplied), if he will outline the new mechanism referred to; and when it will be put in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12993/23]
• 2023-03-21
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide a report on the total number of private home completions in 2021 and 2022, broken down by local authority and with the corresponding Part V allocation, where applicable; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13147/23]
• 2023-03-21
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will outline any constraints, price or otherwise to the county council's acquisition programme and the tenant in situ programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13167/23]
• 2023-03-09
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he intends to introduce any supports, such as HAP, for households who are facing eviction or seeking accommodation but cannot afford current market rents but are above the social housing income thresholds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11856/23]
• 2023-03-09
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will extend the eviction ban at the end of March; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11854/23]
• 2023-03-09
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide the final figure for local authority own build social housing completions in the four Dublin local authorities in 2022; his views that this represents success or failure in terms of addressing the chronic housing crisis in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11853/23]
• 2023-03-09
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to work with Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown and other bodies to ensure the immediate servicing of the public housing lands in Old Conna and Rathmichael to accelerate the delivery of social and affordable housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11857/23]
• 2023-03-07
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage how many call-outs of emergency services there were to deal with out-of-control gorse fires nationwide; the costs of same from 1 September 2022 to 28 March 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11409/23]
• 2023-03-02
  PQ
  Asked Public Expenditure

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if he will outline how he intends to ensure the crucial posts across the public sector are filled, in particular in the cities, given the unaffordability of housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10594/23]
• 2023-03-02
  PQ
  Asked Public Expenditure

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if he will report on the discussions he has had with the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage on the failure of Housing for All to deliver on its local authority build targets for 2022, particularly in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10595/23]
• 2023-03-02
  PQ
  Asked Public Expenditure

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if he will report on the role his Department has in ensuring the progress of the commitments in the national development plan in supporting the current public housing programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10592/23]
• 2023-03-02
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 266 of 15 November 2022, if he will review and correct his previous response where he stated that the procedures were followed in relation to a complaint made to the Ombudsman's office concerning breach of a statutory requirement, under section 53(1) of the Building Control Act 2007, by the Society of Chartered Surveyors Registration Body Professional Conducts Committee, which it is believed were not followed in accordance with section 53(1) of the Building Control Act 2007 in that the right of appeal was denied; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10798/23]
• 2023-02-28
  PQ
  Asked Taoiseach

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his plans for referendums, including the referendum on housing committed to in the programme for Government. [9960/23]
• 2023-02-28
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide details of homes built (details supplied) to date in 2023, broken down by local authority. [9882/23]
• 2023-02-22
  VOTE
  Housing and Evictions

  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion passed · 74–56
• 2023-02-21
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will review the HAP limits and clarify if the band for a parent/parents with two children should have a further uplift where a three-bedroom property is needed due to the age and the sex of children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8093/23]
• 2023-02-15
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to outline the measures in place to prevent homelessness outside of the current moratorium on certain notices to quit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7635/23]
• 2023-02-15
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the homeless supports that are available for individuals and families who become homeless but are above the social housing income limits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7636/23]
• 2023-02-15
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the full costs of providing emergency homeless accommodation broken down by local authority area and broken down by month over the past two years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7637/23]
• 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 Taoiseach

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach when the Housing for All progress report for quarter 4 2022 will be published. [4417/23]
• 2023-02-09
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will report on the new report on rapid-build housing published by his Department. [57890/22]
• 2023-01-26
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he plans to extend the moratorium on certain evictions after 31 March 2022; the other measures he will put in place to stop the flow of people into homelessness; if those measures will include an increase in the number of Part V property bought, allowing councils and approved housing bodies, AHBs, to buy homes where people have a notice to quit and would be eligible for cost rental, and accelerating the programme to bring vacant homes back into use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3875/23]
• 2023-01-26
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will outline his plans to accelerate the servicing of housing land in order that councils can include plans for social and affordable homes on these lands in their targets to 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3651/23]
• 2023-01-26
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is planning to extend the moratorium on certain evictions after 31 March 2023; what other measures will he put in place to stop the flow of people into homelessness; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3648/23]
• 2023-01-26
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the way he will ensure that all the people now eligible for social housing due to change in income limits will be put back on the list urgently so they will be eligible for allocations as a matter of urgency as many of these people have missed out on allocations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3649/23]
• 2023-01-26
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide all details of the way he will address the huge shortfall in the delivery of social housing under Housing for All; his plans to address, particularly, the lack of three and four bedroomed family homes in the pipeline; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3652/23]
• 2023-01-26
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the role that his Department has in ensuring that funding is in place to meet the pay demands of the members of an organisation (details supplied) in the retained Fire Service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2364/23]
• 2023-01-26
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on whether the National Development Plan commitments on social housing are currently being fulfilled by Housing for All; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2366/23]
• 2023-01-24
  PQ
  Asked Taoiseach

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [61331/22]
• 2023-01-24
  PQ
  Asked Finance

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the recent call by an organisation (details supplied) for a wealth tax of graduated rates of 2%, 3% and 5% on wealth above €4.7m, in which the organisation stated that such a wealth tax would raise €8.2 billion annually, with the potential to transform Irish public services in health, housing and education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3107/23]
• 2023-01-18
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason a council tenant in an AHB in Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council and a council tenant in a council home in Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council can be paying different amounts in rent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63757/22]
• 2022-12-13
  VOTE
  Confidence in Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage

  • ✗ voted against the motion motion passed · 86–63
• 2022-12-01
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide a report on the funding streams from his Department to local authorities; if the local authorities will be fully reimbursed for the increase in the pay and pension bill by the recent public sector agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56464/22]
• 2022-12-01
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the discussions that he has had with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in view of the review that is being carried out by his Department concerning income limits for social housing, given the potential impact on the public finances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56462/22]
• 2022-12-01
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if, in the light of the new policy approach which recommends that Councils seek to buy homes with tenants in situ when there are social housing support tenants with notices to quit, he has reviewed the capital funding that will be available to local authorities for these purposes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56756/22]
• 2022-12-01
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide a full report on any submissions or discussions that he has had with the Department Public Expenditure and Reform with regard to expanding its capital programme for the acquisition of homes for social and affordable housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56465/22]
• 2022-12-01
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the way that he decided the capital allocation for housing given that Housing for All targets are being missed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48392/22]
• 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
• 2022-11-15
  PQ
  Asked Taoiseach

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [53229/22]
• 2022-11-15
  PQ
  Asked Taoiseach

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach when the Housing for All progress report for quarter 3 of 2022 will be published. [53577/22]
• 2022-11-15
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will address a matter regarding a complaint made to the Ombudsman Office concerning a breach of a statutory requirement, under section 53(1) of the Building Control Act 2007 by an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56252/22]
• 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 Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of homes that local authorities have bought with tenants in situ; the number of local authorities that are in the process of buying same; the number that have made enquiries in relation to buying same broken down by local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53030/22]
• 2022-10-25
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide a list of all housing estates and properties not under the purview of local authorities; the number of units and residencies individually affected in Dún Laoghaire, Rathdown and across the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53049/22]
• 2022-10-13
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has had any discussions with the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage and the Cabinet in relation to a ban on evictions, given the current crisis in emergency accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50100/22]
• 2022-10-11
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the policy change in his Department with regard to the purchase of HAP, RAS and leased tenancies by local authorities or approved housing bodies, AHBs, in cases in which tenants are in receipt of a notice to quit; if he will provide circulars, memos and or any guidelines issued to the local authorities or AHBs in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50128/22]
• 2022-10-11
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide a list broken down by local authority, of all HAP and RAS tenancies bought by local authorities with the tenant in situ since the April 2022 circular allowing same to local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50130/22]
• 2022-10-05
  PQ
  Asked Taoiseach

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach to report on progress on Housing for All, which is led by his Department. [44837/22]
• 2022-10-04
  PQ
  Asked Public

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the way that he intends to solve the recruitment crisis across the public sector in Dublin given the lack of availability of affordable rents and the high cost of housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48394/22]
• 2022-10-04
  PQ
  Asked Public

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the consideration he gave to expanding capital investment in areas such as housing, climate and energy savings prior to budget 2023 in order to reduce the need for large current expenditures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48395/22]
• 2022-10-04
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to publish the review that his Department has on the social housing income limits; the bodies or individuals that his Department consulted with in the course of carrying-out the review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48486/22]
• 2022-10-04
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide details of all projects currently being progressed by the Land Development Agency; the projected homes to be delivered; the tenure of these homes; the timelines for delivery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48487/22]
• 2022-09-22
  PQ
  Asked Finance

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance the way that he intends to use the billions in additional revenue now available to him as a result of the surge in corporate tax receipts expected this year; the way that these may be used to combat the ever-worsening housing crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46268/22]
• 2022-09-22
  PQ
  Asked Finance

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance if he is planning any further taxation measures in Budget 2023 to bring the large numbers of vacant and derelict homes into use given the severity of the housing crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46266/22]
• 2022-09-08
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 760 of 26 July 2022, if he will provide the number of houses bought by each council for the amounts listed in the table; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42146/22]
• 2022-09-08
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of part V homes purchased by each local authority over the past two years; the average cost of each home; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42163/22]
• 2022-07-26
  PQ
  Asked Finance

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance the number of property owners who are paying local property tax on one property; two properties; three properties; four properties; between five and ten; between ten and 20; between 20 and 50, between 50 and 100 and 100 or more, excluding local authorities and assisted housing bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41574/22]
• 2022-07-26
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the options that are available to persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39837/22]
• 2022-07-26
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide the record of dumping at sea activities that have been carried out to date in relation to the recommended permit (details supplied). [41403/22]
• 2022-07-26
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average cost of acquiring 1, 2, 3 and 4 bed homes in Dublin under the buy and renew scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41412/22]
• 2022-07-26
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average cost of acquiring 1, 2, 3 and 4 bed homes outside Dublin under the buy and renew scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41413/22]
• 2022-07-26
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number and size of homes bought by each local authority in 2021 and the first two quarters of 2022; the cost of these homes to each local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41414/22]
• 2022-07-26
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated per year cost of planned part V purchases under Housing for All; the projected cost per unit for 1, 2, 3 and 4 bed homes; the number planned to be purchased for each year broken down by local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41415/22]
• 2022-07-26
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated construction cost of building 1, 2, 3 and 4 bed homes on local authority land; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41416/22]
• 2022-07-26
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated construction cost of building a 1, 2, 3 and 4 bed homes on publicly owned land; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41417/22]
• 2022-07-26
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated full-year cost to the Exchequer of increasing income limits for social housing by 20%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41418/22]
• 2022-07-26
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated full-year cost of providing emergency accommodation for homeless people in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41421/22]
• 2022-07-26
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated cost of increasing part V to 25% social and 25% affordable over the next five years and in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41810/22]
• 2022-07-26
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated cost of purchasing 50% rather than the minimum of 10% under the part V requirements or 20% under the new part V requirements of all residential units targeted for completion in 2023 and 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41811/22]
• 2022-07-26
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average cost of acquiring one, two, three and four-bed homes per unit in Dublin under the buy-and-renew scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41813/22]
• 2022-07-26
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average cost of acquiring one, two, three and four-bed homes per unit outside Dublin under the buy-and-renew scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41814/22]
• 2022-07-26
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated full year cost of providing emergency accommodation for homeless people in Dublin in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41922/22]
• 2022-07-26
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide a list of all the emergency accommodation centres for homeless people in Dublin; the number of places in each; the cost of running each; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41923/22]
• 2022-07-26
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the full year cost of the Traveller Accommodation Programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41924/22]
• 2022-07-26
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated full year cost of increasing HAP limits to the average cost of rents in each area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41925/22]
• 2022-07-26
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the full cost of retrofitting all local authority owned homes by 2030 and the estimated average cost per home in 2023; the number to be carried out in this year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41926/22]
• 2022-07-26
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the current plans for retrofitting all local authority homes including the timeline and the estimated cost per year; the number of homes for each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41927/22]
• 2022-07-26
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the cost to bring water infrastructure in Ireland to best in class levels in the EU by 2025; the cost for the first year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41928/22]
• 2022-07-26
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of staff employed by the National Parks and Wildlife Service; the number of sanctioned posts in the service; the average pay of staff members; the current full year cost of running the service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41929/22]
• 2022-07-26
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the funding increase that would be necessary for the National Parks and Wildlife Service to be capable of fulfilling its statutory requirements under the EU Habitats Directive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41930/22]
• 2022-07-26
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the funding of local government including the source of the funding local property tax, grants and so on in tabular form; the way that this funding has changed in each year from 2008 taking into account the removal of water services from the local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41931/22]
• 2022-07-26
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide details of all properties in cases in which they were leased by State bodies under his aegis; the list of all State bodies under his aegis that are or could be currently acting independently of the OPW to acquire their own property; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42026/22]
• 2022-07-14
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if each local authority is required to have a complaints officer or department; if not, the reason; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38807/22]
• 2022-07-07
  PQ
  Asked Further and Higher Education

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the discussions that he has had with the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage in relation to the student accommodation crisis that will hit in early September 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36668/22]
• 2022-06-28
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he plans to develop a compensation package for homeowners affected by fire remediation issues as a result of the failure of builders and developers to put in adequate fire safety measure which require remediation at the cost of the homeowners given that the Government has agreed to compensate homeowners affected by mica and pyrite; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33631/22]
• 2022-06-23
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will confirm the new HAP rates, the new uplifts and the new homeless HAP rates given his recent announcement to raise the rates by 35%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32942/22]
• 2022-06-23
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will increase the cap of €30,000 on the Housing Adaptation Grants given of the increased costs in building and supplies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32939/22]
• 2022-06-23
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will reinstate the eviction ban, given the month on month increase in homelessness; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32940/22]
• 2022-06-23
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if local authorities are able to buy homes with HAP tenants in situ in cases in which the tenant is threatened with eviction on grounds of sale; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32941/22]
• 2022-06-23
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans to increase the marine protection areas to 30% by 2030; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28487/22]
• 2022-06-23
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will sanction all the vacant posts across local authorities and provide the necessary resources for these posts to be filled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31317/22]
• 2022-06-21
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will consider raising the maximum contribution of housing adaptation grants towards building costs given the huge rise in the cost of building works making it impossible for persons in need of these grants to make up the difference between the maximum grant and the cost of the adaptation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31792/22]
• 2022-06-21
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to the reports in the media of a 35% increase in the discretionary housing assistance payment limit and changes to rules around local authorities ability to purchase homes with sitting HAP tenants who are in receipt of an NTQ on grounds of sale, if he will provide details regarding both these initiatives, including the new HAP limits across the country including uplifts and homeless rates and any rules around purchasing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32526/22]
• 2022-06-21
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide the numbers of those in need of housing across all local authorities; if these figures will include those that are on housing assistance payment and rental accommodation scheme transfer lists as these tenancies are not secure and permanent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32527/22]
• 2022-05-24
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide copies of all circulars that have been sent to local authorities in relation to the local infrastructure housing activation fund funding; the affordability requirements for homes built on the land in receipt of this funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26006/22]
• 2022-05-24
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department is advising applicants that reconstitution and underplanting scheme licence applications will be withdrawn by a defined date in cases in which such applications are associated with ash dieback given that his Department is still discussing a resolution with the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26096/22]
• 2022-05-17
  PQ
  Asked Taoiseach

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the housing and infrastructure unit of his Department. [24523/22]
• 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 Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the details of the housing first scheme; the way that persons can access the scheme; the persons that the scheme applies to; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22587/22]
• 2022-05-10
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide details of contracts awarded in 2022 by his Department or bodies under his aegis outside the standard procurement process in order to assist the arrival of refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23198/22]
• 2022-05-05
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will urgently review the housing assistance payment limits for social housing which are hopelessly inadequate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22195/22]
• 2022-05-05
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will immediately introduce a ban on evictions as was done during Covid considering the escalating housing crisis and the urgent need to also put roofs over the heads of those fleeing war; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22194/22]
• 2022-05-05
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide a report on the vacant buildings his Department has already identified that might be used for emergency accommodation and if he will commit to continuously publishing this list as it is updated on a weekly basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22196/22]
• 2022-05-05
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will investigate the empty seamark buildings on Merrion Road and see if they could play a role in providing emergency accommodation or could be retrofitted for social and affordable housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22197/22]
• 2022-05-05
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will report on the review of income limits for eligibility for social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22193/22]
• 2022-05-04
  PQ
  Asked Taoiseach

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [18412/22]
• 2022-05-04
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications his views on the accessibility of the €200 electricity grant for social housing tenants who use a pay-as-you-go service; if an initial top-up is required to access it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21917/22]
• 2022-04-27
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he will publish his review of the income limits for social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21375/22]
• 2022-04-27
  VOTE
  Housing (Adaptation Grant for People with a Disability) Bill 2021

  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 to reject an amendment to the bill motion passed · 74–61
• 2022-04-07
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the tenant purchase scheme is open to those receiving a non-contributory pension; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18952/22]
• 2022-04-05
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the review of social housing income limits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18192/22]
• 2022-04-05
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will report on any review of the HAP limits given spiralling rents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18193/22]
• 2022-04-05
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans for affordable housing to remain affordable considering recent comments by an organisation (details supplied) that increasing costs of raw materials will impact on its involvement in Housing for All; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18194/22]
• 2022-04-05
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the circumstances in which a section 183 vote is required by local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18265/22]
• 2022-04-05
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the way a local authority can create a new public right of way; if there are any constraints on local authorities to do this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18267/22]
• 2022-03-22
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans and the timeline for the review of the HAP limits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14592/22]
• 2022-03-22
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the discussions he has had on, and the timeline he has put in place for, the promised review of the social housing income limits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14593/22]
• 2022-03-22
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the programmes or funding in place for local authorities to acquire homes in order to prevent homelessness; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14594/22]
• 2022-03-08
  PQ
  Asked Further and Higher Education

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he will report on new plans for training and apprenticeship places in all trades that are needed to ramp up the supply of housing across the country; the role that local authorities might play in this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12871/22]
• 2022-03-01
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the rules that are around rents charged by approved housing bodies and upward rent reviews; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10943/22]
• 2022-03-01
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the details of the means test for disability grants, including in cases in which there are multiple owners of the house in question but only one or two residents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11211/22]
• 2022-03-01
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if recent changes have been made to the tenant purchase scheme; if so, if these changes need to be ratified by each council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11306/22]
• 2022-03-01
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of persons and families who have been removed from housing lists across the country over the past two years as a result of being above the income limit for social housing support; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11487/22]
• 2022-03-01
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide a comprehensive list of the number of new social housing support units provided in 2021 by delivery method that is LA direct build; LA Acquisition programme; Part V divided by lease or buy, including length of leases AHB build; HAP including whether the new HAPs are replacements or for new RAS tenancies, other long-term leasing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11534/22]
• 2022-02-23
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of vacant sites identified in each local authority area across the country; the amounts levied in each area under the vacant sites levy; the amounts collected under the levy; the number of sites and the amounts outstanding in unpaid levies in each of the years 2016 to 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10199/22]
• 2022-02-23
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of derelict sites identified in each local authority area across the country; the amounts levied in each area under the derelict sites levy; and the amounts collected under the levy; the number of sites and amounts outstanding in unpaid levies in each of the years 2016 to 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10200/22]
• 2022-02-22
  PQ
  Asked Finance

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance if he will now consider establishing an escalating tax on the owners of multiple properties given the role that property investment funds and entities are now playing in dominating the housing market and contributing to unaffordable rents and limiting housing options for ordinary persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9675/22]
• 2022-02-15
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the details of all allocations in local housing authorities in Dublin; the allocations that went to the housing waiting list, the HAP transfer list, the RAS transfer list, the overcrowding transfer list and the medical transfer list; the number of properties that were set aside for allocations to overall priority applicants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7793/22]
• 2022-02-09
  PQ
  Asked Taoiseach

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the housing and infrastructure unit of his Department. [6392/22]
• 2022-02-01
  PQ
  Asked Taoiseach

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet.. [2221/22]
• 2022-01-26
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount that has been spent to rent or buy warehousing space in the UK and in general to mitigate against the negative effects of Brexit; the status of a partnership with a company (details supplied) in relation to a project; the costs the partnership has incurred; and the breakdown of the chemical composition of tricoya boards. [3725/22]
• 2022-01-25
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he has reviewed or plans to review staffing levels in the local authorities in view of the changes to the strategic housing development and large-scale residential developments legislation; if he will sanction extra posts to ensure that staff increases needed in the planning sections of the local authorities will not pull away from other sections; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2455/22]
• 2022-01-19
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if a person who is in full-time education with an allowance from a relative of €160 per week but has a housing need is entitled to housing assistance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63424/21]
• 2022-01-19
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the options available in the immediate term for persons living in homeless accommodation whose income goes slightly above the income limit for social housing; which is currently resulting in these homeless persons being asked to leave their homeless accommodation but they have no capability on their low incomes to provide a home for themselves and their family; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2257/22]
• 2022-01-19
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of strategic housing development applications awaiting a decision by An Bord Pleanála by local authority; the number of strategic housing development applications that have already received a pre-planning opinion from An Bord Pleanála by the deadline of 17 December 2021, by local authority; the number that had applied to An Bord Pleanála by the deadline of 17 December 2021 for a pre-planning meeting by local authority in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2259/22]
• 2022-01-19
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of strategic housing development applications in the lifetime of the legislation by local authority; the number of these applications that were refused, granted permission and withdrawn, respectively by local authority; the number that were the subject of a judicial review by local authority; the number of these reviews that were successful by local authority; the number of the applications that were granted that have been completed by local authority; the number of the developments that are being actively built by local authority; the number that have one or more commencement notices on the site by local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2260/22]
• 2021-12-14
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if a county council must erect site notices, display pending documents and applications on their websites for section 254 licences and allow observations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61313/21]
• 2021-12-01
  PQ
  Asked Taoiseach

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [58591/21]
• 2021-11-17
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of NPWS staff by county; the vacancies the NPWS has in each county; and the reason for these vacancies. [56412/21]
• 2021-11-16
  PQ
  Asked Taoiseach

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the housing and infrastructure unit of his Department. [54563/21]
• 2021-11-11
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will work with Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council to ensure that the remaining tenants in a location (details supplied) who are all in receipt of social housing support are not made homeless; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55036/21]
• 2021-11-11
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he plans to announce the new income limits for social housing; if he will review the new requirement in social housing assessment regulations that means that the income of the past 12 months of the applicant is taken into account rather than the current income (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55035/21]
• 2021-11-11
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his input and the input of the NPWS in the Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021 with regards to the biodiversity of Ireland’s seas and nearshore and the plans for increasing the marine protected areas in the interest of protecting the environment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55038/21]
• 2021-11-11
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will consider proper rent controls that would see rent pegged to average incomes and set by a rent authority considering the constant increase of rents despite RPZ legislation and amendments to same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55037/21]
• 2021-11-09
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of individual vacant sites and beneficial owners to which the vacant sites levy has been applied; the amount of revenue that has been raised by the levy in each of the years 2017 to 2020 and to-date in 2021; the amount of tax due that remains to be collected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54684/21]
• 2021-10-19
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the social welfare payments that are calculated for the purpose of the assessment for social housing; if he will provide details of the payments that are exempt; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51041/21]
• 2021-10-19
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the 20% discretionary HAP uplift can be applied to an ongoing tenancy in which a tenant has received a rent increase and cannot afford to pay any further top up to the landlord; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50372/21]
• 2021-10-19
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the way that income is assessed for the purposes of social housing support, including details of income limits, allowances per child, payments that are included in calculation and if the working family payment is included for the purposes of the calculation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51039/21]
• 2021-10-19
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the income limit for a family of two parents and six children registered on the housing lists in Dublin to be eligible for social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51040/21]
• 2021-10-12
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he has plans to deal with the growing problem of persons on HAP receiving rent increases in cases in which their HAP payments remain fixed and they are required to make top-up payments but cannot afford them, particularly social welfare recipients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49399/21]
• 2021-09-28
  PQ
  Asked Taoiseach

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [43761/21]
• 2021-09-28
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will consider effective rent controls that will both reduce rents and maintain them at an affordable level in view of the failure of the rent pressure zones to make rents affordable; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46414/21]
• 2021-09-28
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he plans to make the long-promised changes to the income levels for eligibility for social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46469/21]
• 2021-09-28
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the affordable housing in the area of Cherrywood, Dublin as a result of the local infrastructure housing activation fund, LIHAF, funding; the number of units, the size of units and whether they will be affordable purchase or affordable rental; the cost or rent in each case; when they are scheduled for delivery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46831/21]
• 2021-09-28
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the details of all Part Vs delivered over the past five years, by local authority including the cost to the local authority or approved housing body; if these units are being leased or bought; if they are being leased or bought by an approved housing body or local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46832/21]
• 2021-09-28
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the details of the retrofitting programme for local authority housing by number of units to be retrofitted each year to 2030; the cost for each unit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46834/21]
• 2021-09-15
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the affordable housing schemes referred to in the Housing for All policy document will commence and will be open for applications; when the criteria for eligibility will be available including the new local authority led affordable purchase scheme, the new first home affordable purchase share equity scheme, the cost rental scheme and the expanded local authority home loan scheme; when they are likely to be established in the Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43339/21]
• 2021-09-15
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the new local authority led affordable purchase scheme, the new first home affordable purchase share equity scheme and the expanded local authority home loan scheme will be available to applicants who have previously been homeowners but have lost their homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43342/21]
• 2021-09-15
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of the social homes and the number of the affordable homes projected for each year and in total in the new Housing for All plan that will be sourced by means (details supplied); the projected annual and total cost for any housing being provided through these means in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43926/21]
• 2021-09-15
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the current estimated average cost of directly built local authority or AHB public and affordable housing on publicly owned land, providing the estimated cost for one, two, three and four-bed housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43927/21]
• 2021-09-15
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the current number of HAP and RAS leasing tenancies across all local authorities including long term leases by AHBs; the projected number of these for each of the years in the lifetime of the Housing for All plan; the annual cost for each year and in total for the lifetime of the plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43928/21]
• 2021-09-15
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the measures which can be taken by an applicant for a grant for housing adaptation that is needed due to the fact the applicant has recently been diagnosed with motor neuron disease and can no longer work (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44070/21]
• 2021-07-27
  PQ
  Asked Finance

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance the details of empty properties and land banks that have not yet been sold with regard to the assets of NAMA; and the negotiations that have taken place to acquire these homes for social and-or affordable housing. [41181/21]
• 2021-07-27
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if it can be guaranteed that any remedial work carried out to tackle the major problem of fire and structural defects in the country’s apartments and duplexes will be covered in another form of monetary relief to the persons affected; if so, the timeframe for such relief; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39562/21]
• 2021-07-27
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on whether there should be discretion in the legislation or guidelines for council housing grant applications for the elderly in order to allow for a reassessment of income outside of the relevant tax year in cases in which one spouse dies while the grant application is pending resulting in an immediate and permanent reduction in housing income for the surviving spouse; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39793/21]
• 2021-07-27
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated cost of deep retrofitting all local authority and social housing stock to the highest standard by unit; and the estimated cost of installing solar panels in the same housing stock. [41146/21]
• 2021-07-27
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the spend in each of the years 2016 to 2019 and the projected spend for 2020 and 2021 on leasing, housing assistance payments and rental accommodation scheme agreements between local authorities and landlords by authority and type of agreement; and the number of these arrangements that are direct transfers from rent allowance arrangements. [41147/21]
• 2021-07-27
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of applicants on the rental accommodation scheme and housing assistance payment housing transfer lists. [41148/21]
• 2021-07-27
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated full cost of emergency accommodation in 2020; and the projected cost for 2021 and 2022, by local authority and type of emergency accommodation, that is, hotels, bed and breakfasts, hostels and family hubs. [41149/21]
• 2021-07-27
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of housing applicants on local authority lists. [41150/21]
• 2021-07-27
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average cost of building council housing on publicly-owned land that is fully serviced. [41151/21]
• 2021-07-27
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average cost of building 1, 2, 3 and 4 bed homes on fully serviced publicly-owned land. [41152/21]
• 2021-07-27
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated cost to provide a home to each person on local authority homeless lists, that is, excluding use of the private rental market in 2022. [41153/21]
• 2021-07-27
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of vacant properties here; the number suitable for social housing; the number that have been considered for acquisition by local authorities by authority; and the cost of acquisition of these homes. [41154/21]
• 2021-07-27
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated full year cost of providing emergency accommodation for homeless persons and families in 2020 and to date in 2021; and the estimated cost for 2022, including all supports paid to the local authorities and subsidies to third-party providers. [41155/21]
• 2021-07-27
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated full year cost of reinstating the local government fund to pre-2008 levels. [41262/21]
• 2021-07-27
  PQ
  Asked Social

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection if the moneys saved following the transfer of recipients of rent allowance to HAP, leasing arrangements and RAS have then been transferred to the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government; the organisation responsible for the latter payments; and if so, the amount in each of the year since the commencement of the payments. [41244/21]
• 2021-07-08
  VOTE
  Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages · 2 divisions

  • ✗ voted against the motion motion passed · 101–8
  • ✓ voted to add an amendment to the bill motion failed · 40–70
• 2021-07-07
  PQ
  Asked Taoiseach

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee dealing with housing will next meet. [34840/21]
• 2021-06-24
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the further measures he will take to address unaffordable rents, excessive rent increases and unfair evictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33884/21]
• 2021-06-24
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the supports that will still be given to the councils that were previously in receipt of moneys from the equalisation fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31407/21]
• 2021-06-24
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on whether the high level of current expenditure in his Department via the housing assistance payment, the rental accommodation scheme and leasing needs to be replaced by capital expenditure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31411/21]
• 2021-06-15
  PQ
  Asked Finance

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance the reason uncompleted houses (details supplied) would not be sold individually by NAMA to persons who are willing to complete the necessary work to make these houses habitable for their own use given that there are other houses in the estate that are completed with occupants who have a water connection and in view of the lack of housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30703/21]
• 2021-06-15
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the approved housing bodies involved in the mortgage-to-rent initiative; the banks that are involved in the initiative; the way households are identified as suitable for inclusion in the initiative; the number of households nationally that are provided for by this scheme; the terms for tenants; the duration of the lease; the provisions for tenants to purchase back the property; the parameters by which tenants can remain in the home beyond the term of the lease; the provisions made for families of the chief earner in the event of their death or serious illness; the person that is financially responsible for the upkeep of the property; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30769/21]
• 2021-06-01
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the backlog in homeless HAP payments is causing warnings and threats of eviction to tenants from landlords and causing anxiety to those who already have experience of homelessness and do not wish to return to that scenario again as in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29326/21]
• 2021-05-19
  PQ
  Asked Taoiseach

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the housing, infrastructure and digital unit of his Department. [26241/21]
• 2021-05-18
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if a commitment will be given to the systematic testing of the waters of Dublin Bay at a minimum of ten locations throughout 356 days of the year (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26063/21]
• 2021-05-11
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide a list of all strategic housing development applications since the beginning of 2017 in cases in which planning permission was granted; the number of units that were applied for; the bedroom size of each of these units; the status of building on the site; the number of units delivered to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23683/21]
• 2021-05-11
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the steps he will take within his power to work with approved housing bodies and Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Council to ensure that the remaining tenants in a location (details supplied) are not forced into homeless services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24645/21]
• 2021-05-11
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the upcoming Land Development Agency Bill 2021 will be revised at committee stage to prioritise traditional council housing and to ensure that the affordable housing is defined in relation to incomes and not in relation to market prices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24646/21]
• 2021-04-21
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the delivery of new social homes by construction over acquisition commenced in line with the Programme for Government objective and priority to increase social housing stock by over 50,000 over a five-year period through a focus on new builds in each of the 31 local authorities since 1 June 2020 to date in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20741/21]
• 2021-03-31
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Inland Waterways Ireland has announced that it plans to sell off the site of the graving dock in Ringsend, Dublin 4; if he will ensure that in the event of the sale proceeding that the price will not fall below the €20 million value that he has placed on the site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17044/21]
• 2021-03-31
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will ensure financial support to develop the graving docks Ringsend, Dublin 4 as a heritage site and that could be used to develop apprenticeships on boat repair; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17045/21]
• 2021-03-31
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will request Dublin City Council to consider diverting some of the funds that had been earmarked for the white water rafting facility to developing a heritage site and amenity for the local community at the graving docks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17046/21]
• 2021-03-31
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will commission a feasibility study to examine options for the future development of the graving docks Ringsend, Dublin 4; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17047/21]
• 2021-03-24
  PQ
  Asked Taoiseach

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with housing will next meet. [1329/21]
• 2021-03-24
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will consider providing legislation to prevent landlords or letting agents charging tenants for references, as is in place in the UK; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14158/21]
• 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
• 2021-03-03
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the details of the review by his Department of siting and size conditions for rooftop solar panels on homes and the review of exemptions for educational and community buildings, as part of the current development of interim planning regulations; the details of 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. [11401/21]
• 2021-02-24
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when the referendum to ensure public ownership of water will take place; if he will address the concerns of local government staff on plans regarding staff transfers to Irish Water; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9551/21]
• 2021-02-24
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason 60 social housing units in the social housing stock of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council remain unoccupied despite a large social housing waiting list; if additional funding will be provided to ensure that these homes are prepared for new tenancies and occupied by April 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9676/21]
• 2021-02-24
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if planning application deadlines should be extended given the restrictions that are in place making it less likely that notices will be seen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9754/21]
• 2021-02-24
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will increase the options for social housing applicants to transfer to other local authority areas; if so, the way in which these transfers will be applied for and processed; if he is planning a new rural resettlement scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9758/21]
• 2021-02-24
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the current law with regard to evictions during Covid-19 and the way in which it might be amended if there is a change in the level under which it is operating; if there is a difference between eviction for arrears due to loss of earnings due to Covid-19 and evictions for other reasons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10167/21]
• 2021-02-04
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if a building project can be deemed essential if the homeowners are dependent on the project staying on schedule in order to move into the property to avoid homelessness in which the projected finish date is beyond 31 January 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6084/21]
• 2021-01-27
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if a copy of the register of interest for the board of An Bord Pleanála will be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3706/21]
• 2021-01-20
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the details of the proposed affordable housing scheme including but not limited to criteria (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2492/21]
• 2021-01-13
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the details for his Department for outsourcing to consultancies of specifically Covid-19-related work, services or advice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1795/21]
• 2020-12-17
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will work with Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council to ensure that the remaining tenants at a location (details supplied) are not evicted; if he will further explore taking the whole apartment block into public ownership; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44224/20]
• 2020-12-17
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the legal situation with regard to adverse possession; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44291/20]
• 2020-12-16
  PQ
  Asked Taoiseach

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee dealing with housing will next meet. [43542/20]
• 2020-12-16
  PQ
  Asked Taoiseach

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach if he has read the recent NESC publication entitled Housing Policy: Actions to Deliver Change. [42007/20]
• 2020-12-08
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if it will be ensured that all the requirements of the work safely protocol issued on 20 November 2020, are implemented with particular reference to the contents of section D3 (details supplied) in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42605/20]
• 2020-11-24
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans to ensure that public land, zoned for housing, will be developed as 100% social and affordable housing in view of the ongoing housing crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38403/20]
• 2020-11-24
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the details of the upcoming affordable housing scheme; the cost of affordable to buy homes; the eligibility criteria for the homes; the scheme of allocations for cost rental homes; the system for deciding the rents on the homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38401/20]
• 2020-11-24
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will extend the eviction ban until the end of the Covid-19 pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38399/20]
• 2020-11-24
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide the necessary funds and other assistance to develop the Oscar Traynor Road site for social and affordable housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38400/20]
• 2020-11-18
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will ensure that councils that are not able to meet the deadline for home acquisition and renovation by the end of 2020 have the deadline extended due to the delays in the programme due to Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37316/20]
• 2020-11-04
  PQ
  Asked Taoiseach

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the housing, infrastructure and digital unit of his Department. [33224/20]
• 2020-11-03
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if persons are permitted to travel beyond the 5 km limit in order to view accommodation that they wish to rent or purchase; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33626/20]
• 2020-10-20
  PQ
  Asked Taoiseach

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with housing last met. [31338/20]
• 2020-10-20
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if Longford County Council has drawn down funding for Traveller accommodation in the past four years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31189/20]
• 2020-10-13
  PQ
  Asked Justice

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Justice her plans to phase out the reliance on direct provision centres as a method of housing asylum seekers especially in view of the overcrowded conditions of centres increasing the likelihood of Covid-19 transmission; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29927/20]
• 2020-10-06
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if, in the context of Covid-19 and particularly rising infection rates, his views on whether it is unacceptable from a public health point of view to allow families and persons to become homeless; the measures he plans to take to ensure this does not happen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28542/20]
• 2020-10-06
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on the fact that the vast majority of strategic housing developments awaiting planning or having received planning are doing little to provide the much-needed affordable housing that is required but are for the most part profit-driven developments, often inappropriate for the sites in question and, if developed, will be unaffordable for the vast majority of those impacted by the ongoing housing crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28543/20]
• 2020-10-06
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated full year cost of providing emergency accommodation for homeless persons and families in 2019 and to date in 2020; and the estimated cost for 2021, including all supports paid to local authorities and subsidies to third-party providers. [28116/20]
• 2020-10-06
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans for the refurbishment and retrofitting of all local authority housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25177/20]
• 2020-09-23
  PQ
  Asked Finance

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance the details of empty properties and land banks that have not yet been sold with regard to the assets of NAMA; and the negotiations that have taken place to acquire these homes for social and or affordable housing. [25847/20]
• 2020-09-23
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of applicants on the RAS and HAP housing transfer lists. [25700/20]
• 2020-09-23
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated full cost of emergency accommodation in 2019; and the projected cost for 2020 and 2021 by local authority and type of emergency accommodation, that is, hotels, bed and breakfasts, hostels and family hubs. [25701/20]
• 2020-09-23
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of housing applicants on local authority lists. [25714/20]
• 2020-09-23
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average cost of building council housing on publicly-owned land that is fully serviced. [25715/20]
• 2020-09-23
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average cost of building 1 to 4-bed homes on fully serviced publicly-owned land. [25716/20]
• 2020-09-23
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated cost to provide a home to each person on local authority homeless lists, that is, excluding use of the private rental market in 2021. [25717/20]
• 2020-09-23
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated amount it would cost to increase Part V from 10% to a statutory minimum of 20%. [25720/20]
• 2020-09-23
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of vacant properties here; the number suitable for social housing; and the number that have been considered for acquisition by local authorities by authority. [25721/20]
• 2020-09-23
  PQ
  Asked Social

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection if the funds saved following the transfer of recipients of rent allowance to HAP, leasing arrangements and RAS have then been transferred to the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage; the organisation responsible for the latter payments; and if so, the amount in each of the years since the commencement of the payments. [25693/20]
• 2020-09-22
  PQ
  Asked Taoiseach

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with housing will next meet. [22649/20]
• 2020-09-22
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated cost of deep retrofitting all local authority and social housing stock to the highest standard by unit; and the cost of installing solar panels in the same housing stock. [24751/20]
• 2020-09-22
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the spend in each of the years 2015 to 2018 and the projected spend for 2019 and 2020 on leasing, HAP and RAS agreements between local authorities and landlords by authority and type of agreement; and the number of the arrangements that are direct transfers from rent allowance arrangements. [24802/20]
• 2020-07-29
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 325 of 7 July 2020, if a more proactive approach will be considered with regard to working with Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council to acquire an apartment block (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19543/20]
• 2020-07-29
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the measures he plans to take to ensure the timely delivery of social and affordable housing at a site (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19545/20]
• 2020-07-28
  PQ
  Asked Taoiseach

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [18562/20]
• 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 Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans for affordable housing including the cost of an affordable house; if he will provide an update on the plans for Shanganagh Castle site, including details of the cost of the affordable homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14549/20]
• 2020-07-07
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans to roll out cost rental housing; the way in which the allocation of these homes will work; the cost of the rents for these homes in particular the cost rental plans for the Enniskerry and Shanganagh Castle sites; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14550/20]
• 2020-07-07
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans to provide the funds and work with Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council and or an approved housing body to purchase an apartment block (details supplied) in Dún Laoghaire in which ten apartments have been empty for three years and the other apartments that have tenants were served with eviction notices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14551/20]
• 2020-07-07
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he will discuss with Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council and the Department of Education and Skills, the land which could be made available to the local authority on the eastern side of the county from the Department that would be suitable for housing when the Department takes over Georges Place for the planned Dún Laoghaire Educate Together permanent school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14552/20]
• 2020-07-07
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he will ensure the ring-fencing of money for capital expenditure on housing in the event of the land at George’s Place in Dún Laoghaire being sold to the Department of Education and Skills; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14553/20]
• 2020-07-07
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he will ensure any shortfall in funding experienced by local authorities due to businesses being unable to pay their rates due to Covid-19 will be filled by his Department in order that this shortfall does not cause a reduction in local services. [14554/20]
• 2020-07-07
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he will provide a rates waiver for all theatres and live entertainment venues until they can reopen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14562/20]
• 2020-07-07
  PQ
  Asked Education

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to commence the Educate Together in Dún Laoghaire; the discussions had with Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council with regards to the transfer of land for this school; if the potential of a land swap of land suitable for housing rather than a cash payment was discussed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14557/20]
• 2020-06-23
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if there will be an extension to the rent freeze beyond 30 June 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12352/20]
• 2020-06-23
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of persons waiting for social housing nationally by local authority; the length of time each application is waiting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12684/20]
• 2020-06-16
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he will work with Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, approved housing bodies and Tusla to ensure that there is a women's refuge in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11552/20]
• 2020-06-16
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans to extend the moratorium on evictions and revise the manner in which landlords can evict for rent arrears in view of the extreme loss of income experienced by many during the Covid-19 pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11566/20]
• 2020-06-16
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if a moratorium on upward rent review will be implemented in view of the extreme loss of income experienced by many during the Covid-19 pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11567/20]
• 2020-06-16
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if a greater level of support will be ensured for tenants accruing arrears due to a loss of income experienced by many during the Covid-19 pandemic; if further support will be ensured for HAP and rent allowance tenants who are paying top-ups to their landlords; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11568/20]
• 2020-06-09
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the recommendation of a report (details supplied) that a refuge centre be established in the county; if his attention has further been drawn to the fact that during the Covid-19 crisis the incidences of domestic violence have increased; if the necessary funds will be provided to the county council to acquire a suitable building for a refuge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10416/20]
• 2020-06-09
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if funding will be provided to Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council to acquire the 21 units at a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10417/20]
• 2020-06-09
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the number of council house completions across the four Dublin local authorities was 228 in 2019 in comparison to 634 in 2018; if his attention has further been drawn to the fact that the projections for 2020 are lower again; his plans to improve these; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10418/20]
• 2020-06-03
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if inter-county HAP transfer lists are operating in some or all local councils to facilitate those with housing needs to seek accommodation in areas in which there is more available housing stock at lower rates of rent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9498/20]
• 2020-06-03
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if his officials will liaise with a housing association (details supplied) to ensure that all public health guidelines are being adhered to and to ensure there is a health and safety audit of the entire complex including fire safety in view of concerns in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9605/20]
• 2020-06-03
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if the strategic housing development legislation will be suspended in view of the fact that the current health crisis shows that good quality public and affordable housing is needed which this legislation has not provided but instead has contributed to planning permissions for co-living and overpriced large-scale development; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9606/20]
• 2020-05-27
  PQ
  Asked Defence

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans to support the need of members of the Defence Forces for secure long-term housing; if the matter will be addressed through local authority housing or council mortgages or by the Defence Forces directly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7638/20]
• 2020-05-27
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the details of capital grants provided to Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council in 2018 and 2019 under the Social Housing Investment Programme to assist in the construction and renewal of social-rented accommodation for persons and families assessed as in need of housing support under categories (details supplied). [7544/20]
• 2020-05-27
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the details of plans for the development of the Central Mental Hospital; the involvement of the Land Development Agency in this development; the stage the development is at; the breakdown for social and affordable housing planned for the land; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8270/20]
• 2020-05-27
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he will report on the Shanganagh Castle development; if the lack of the enactment of the legislation for the Land Development Agency is holding up the progress of this development; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8271/20]
• 2020-05-27
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of social housing units he is expecting to be delivered from the Cherrywood SDZ; the timeline for these homes; the number of these homes that are already included in a granted planning permission; the number of these planning permissions that already have commencement notices on the site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8272/20]
• 2020-05-27
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he will revise guidelines in relation to co-living and ensure that these kind of developments will not be allowed in view of the fact that Covid-19 has highlighted the dangers of overcrowded living conditions and the role congregated living plays in transmission of diseases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8273/20]
• 2020-05-20
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if a commitment will be given to each local authority that all funds lost to the authorities due to the pandemic will be covered by central Government and not impact on other grants and local authority funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7014/20]
• 2019-12-17
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of active HAP tenancies in quarters 2 and 3 of 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52597/19]
• 2019-12-17
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of HAP or RAS tenancies that have terminated in each of the years 2016, 2017, 2018 and in the first three quarters of 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52598/19]
• 2019-12-17
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of HAP tenancies in each of the years 2017, 2018 and the first three quarters of 2019 that were transfers from rent allowance supported tenancies or RAS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52606/19]
• 2019-12-17
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of adults and children that have spent time living in emergency accommodation or have registered as homeless in each year since 2014; the length of time they have been in emergency accommodation or homeless by headings (details supplied) in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52608/19]
• 2019-12-11
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he has read the recent report on the effect of homelessness on the development of children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51871/19]
• 2019-12-11
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if the land and homes on a site (details supplied) will remain in public ownership into the future in view of the possible transfer of a site to the Land Development Agency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51873/19]
• 2019-12-11
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his views on the fact that the quorum in An Bord Pleanála is only three members, which means that two members of the board are making decisions on major planning applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51870/19]
• 2019-12-11
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans to ensure the figures of those on the RAS and HAP transfer lists are included on the list of those awaiting social housing by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51874/19]
• 2019-12-11
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans to ensure that income eligibility for public housing is raised to ensure that those on middle incomes have access to safe and secure housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51872/19]
• 2019-12-10
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of children that have spent time in homeless services over the past five years by age groups of zero to five, five to ten and ten to 16 years of age; the length of time each child has spent in homeless services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51879/19]
• 2019-12-10
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his views on whether, in view of the severity of the current housing crisis, a more aggressive vacant site tax is needed to prevent hoarding and speculation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46680/19]
• 2019-12-10
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his views on whether the local property tax has failed to generate additional funding for local government and services since its introduction; his further views on whether an alternative method of funding local government is now needed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46681/19]
• 2019-12-05
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council will be instructed to buy the homes of tenants in receipt of a notice to quit at a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50676/19]
• 2019-12-03
  VOTE
  Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government

  • ✓ voted for the motion motion failed · 53–56
• 2019-11-28
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the funding from the SEAI to local authorities in 2020 to help retrofit social housing stock; the projected allocation and number of homes expected to be improved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49435/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of affordable homes which will be delivered in 2020; when the income eligibility criteria for such homes will be defined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45220/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his views on whether the Land Development Agency will become a vehicle for the privatisation of public land and will be unable to deliver the affordable and social homes needed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45221/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans to abandon the strategic housing development legislation entirely in view of the fact that it has failed to deliver much-needed affordable homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45223/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his views on whether increasing numbers of individuals and families are being removed from the council lists even though their incomes fall short of allowing them to provide secure housing for themselves in view of the fact that income eligibility criteria for social housing have not been reviewed since 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45222/19]
• 2019-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his views on the fact that across local authorities there is less money available for local services in view of the fact the stated aim of the local property tax was to provide extra resources for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38987/19]
• 2019-10-08
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if Irish Water is no longer installing domestic water meters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40549/19]
• 2019-09-24
  PQ
  Asked Defence

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will consider allowing a premises in a location (details supplied) in the ownership of his Department to be used by UN veterans for housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38546/19]
• 2019-09-24
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the allocation to each local authority in each of the years from 2008 to 2018 and to date in 2019 by the LGF, different grants and LPT; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38766/19]
• 2019-09-24
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he will work with Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council to ensure that the apartments at a location (details supplied) that are the subject of eviction cases by an organisation are brought into public ownership in order to secure homes for these tenants, four of which are HAP tenancies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38763/19]
• 2019-09-18
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he will intervene in eviction attempts by two owners of properties (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37383/19]
• 2019-09-18
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans to review the HAP limits in view of the difficulties those in need of housing are experiencing trying to find homes within the current limits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37387/19]
• 2019-09-18
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he will intervene in the latest eviction attempt of eight tenants at a location (details supplied) by the property owner in view of the fact this is the third attempt by the owners to mass evict these tenants over the past two years utilising different loopholes in the residential tenancies legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37391/19]
• 2019-09-18
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans for the retrofitting of council-owned dwellings; the grants and supports available for those that own their home to complete similar retrofitting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37389/19]
• 2019-09-18
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government when he expects the planned review of income eligibility limits for social housing to be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37388/19]
• 2019-09-18
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of the provision of affordable homes and the eligibility criteria for such homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37390/19]
• 2019-09-06
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the estimated cost of deep retrofitting all local authority and social housing stock to the highest standard by unit; and the cost of installing solar panels in the same housing stock. [34715/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Finance

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance the details of empty properties and land banks that have not yet been sold with regard to the assets of NAMA; the negotiations that have taken place to acquire these homes for social and or affordable housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33534/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Employment

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the moneys saved following the transfer of recipients of rent allowance to HAP, leasing arrangements and RAS have then been transferred to the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government; the organisation responsible for the latter payments; if so, the amount in each of the years since the commencement of the payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33572/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government when the second tranche of funding for the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme will be made available to local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33512/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of housing applicants on local authority lists. [33560/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of applicants on the RAS and HAP transfer lists. [33561/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the average cost of building one to four bed homes on fully serviced publicly owned land. [33562/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the estimated amount it would cost to increase Part V from 10% to a statutory minimum of 20%. [33563/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of vacant properties; the number suitable for social housing; the number that have been considered for acquisition by local authorities by authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33564/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the estimated full cost of emergency accommodation in 2018; and the projected cost for 2019 and 2020 by local authority and type of emergency accommodation, that is, hotels, bed and breakfasts, hostels and family hubs. [33565/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the spend in each of the years 2015 to 2017 and the projected spend for 2018 and 2019 on leasing, HAP and RAS agreements between local authorities and landlords by authority and type of agreement; and the number of these arrangements that are direct transfers from rent allowance arrangements. [33566/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the estimated cost to provide a home to each person on local authority homeless lists, that is, excluding use of the private rental market in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33567/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the average cost of building council housing on publicly owned land that is fully serviced. [33568/19]
• 2019-07-23
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the annual spend for 2016, 2017 and 2018 and the projected spend for 2019 and 2020 on leasing, HAP and RAS agreements between local authorities and landlords by authority and type of agreement; and the number of these arrangements that are direct transfers from rent allowance arrangements. [34303/19]
• 2019-07-10
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the rate of overturning decisions of planners by An Bord Pleanála since 2011; if the planner upheld the planning authorities decision; the details of each case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30139/19]
• 2019-07-09
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the role of the county development plan in relation to local authority Traveller accommodation programmes 2014-2018. [29196/19]
• 2019-07-03
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of strategic housing developments submitted to An Bord Pleanála; the number of units in each of the applications; the number granted planning permission; the length of time it took for permission to be granted; the number of commencement notices that have been issued for those that were granted permission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28384/19]
• 2019-06-11
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that some landlords or their agents are refusing to rent to HAP recipients due to the fact they are adding HAP to the income of the recipient (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23825/19]
• 2019-05-29
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government when further funds will be released to Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council to facilitate the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22925/19]
• 2019-05-22
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if a trustee elected by the members of the scheme can be vetoed by the council even though the members of the scheme have always elected two trustees in relation to Dún Laoghaire harbour; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22184/19]
• 2019-05-22
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the reason the final accounts for Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company have not yet been submitted to his Department despite this being a requirement of the Harbours Act 2015; the action he will take in relation to same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22185/19]
• 2019-05-21
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the restrictions on content applied to the freepost election literature to which each European candidate is entitled. [21659/19]
• 2019-05-15
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of the building of new accommodation at a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21053/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of front-line staff in Dublin Fire Brigade in each of the years 2014 to 2018; the number of new recruits in each of the years; the cost of overtime for each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19463/19]
• 2019-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if in all HAP and RAS tenancies and leasing arrangements between local authorities and landlords the properties are registered with the RTB; if this is a requirement for the landlord to receive payments; the number of tenancies that are not compliant by local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19485/19]
• 2019-04-18
  PQ
  Asked Public

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on the impact on public finances of the heavy reliance on leasing, housing assistance payment, HAP and the rental accommodation scheme, RAS, in the housing policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18075/19]
• 2019-04-18
  PQ
  Asked Public

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on the impact on public finances of the heavy reliance on leasing, HAP and RAS in the housing policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18071/19]
• 2019-04-18
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of housing assistance payment, HAP, or rental accommodation scheme, RAS, tenancies nationwide that are former county council owned properties sold through the tenant purchase schemes; the cost of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18104/19]
• 2019-04-18
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the avenues open to a person who employed a registered architect who did not carry out their role of assigned certifier leaving their client living in a house which has not been certified since 2015; the number of formal complaints made to an organisation (details supplied) in the past 15 years; the number of architects sanctioned and or struck off following these complaints; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18109/19]
• 2019-04-17
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of HAP tenancies paying a top-up to the HAP payment out of all HAP and homeless HAP payments; the value of those top-ups; and the number of these tenants paying a top-up in receipt of a social welfare payment by local authority area. [17956/19]
• 2019-04-11
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the process and timeline for the review of the strategic housing developments' fast track planning; the way in which persons can make submissions on same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16998/19]
• 2019-04-11
  VOTE
  Building the Housing of the Future · 5 divisions

  • ✓ voted for the motion the motion motion failed · 56–60
  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion failed · 3–111
  • ✓ voted to add 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
• 2019-04-09
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he will provide a full report on the involvement of the Land Development Agency in the development of public housing on a site (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16406/19]
• 2019-04-09
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the way in which the strategic housing development legislation is contributing to the provision of affordable housing in particular in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16408/19]
• 2019-04-09
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the way in which affordable homes would be delivered nationally further to his recent circular on affordable housing criteria to local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16405/19]
• 2019-04-09
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans for raising the income eligibility criteria for social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16404/19]
• 2019-04-09
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he has considered legislation that would protect small low-rise communities from losing sunlight from their homes and communities due to high-rise development; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16407/19]
• 2019-04-09
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans for implementing the outstanding recommendations from the Citizens' Assembly. [14251/19]
• 2019-04-09
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the funding applied for by Wicklow County Council to facilitate the transfer of residents from one area to another (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15748/19]
• 2019-04-02
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he will address matters (details supplied) regarding fire appliances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15303/19]
• 2019-04-02
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he will address matters regarding an aerial appliance (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15304/19]
• 2019-02-20
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the reports he is considering changing the rules in relation to offers of accommodation to social housing applicants which may result in an applicant being suspended from the list if they refuse two offers of accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8178/19]
• 2019-02-20
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government when the thresholds for entitlement to social housing will be increased; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8177/19]
• 2019-02-13
  PQ
  Asked Children

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to a new campaign (details supplied) by an organisation and its five key demands relating to food poverty, health, exclusion, education and housing; the way in which she plans to respond to same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6986/19]
• 2019-02-12
  PQ
  Asked Employment

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps a person should take who does not qualify for a social welfare payment due to his or her spouse's earnings although they are estranged but compelled to live under the same roof due to the housing crisis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6749/19]
• 2019-02-05
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of applicants removed from the housing list in each of the years 2014 to 2018 due to being over the income thresholds by local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5437/19]
• 2019-02-05
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans to increase the income threshold criteria for eligibility for social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5438/19]
• 2019-01-31
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to whether councils sent incorrect guidelines relating to assessment for the housing adaptation grant for people with a disability scheme; the number of persons who could be affected across all local authorities; the amount potentially denied to applicants across all local authorities due to councils not applying the correct rules to means testing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4803/19]
• 2019-01-31
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the reason councils were issued incorrect guidelines relating to assessment for the housing adaptation grant for people with a disability scheme; the number of persons who could be affected by all local authorities; the estimated number that could have been denied by local authorities nationally due to councils not applying the correct rules on means testing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4849/19]
• 2019-01-30
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Dublin Region Homeless Executive has not been issuing Leap cards to homeless families since October 2018 and has no junior Leap cards available; if families will be reimbursed for travel expenses during this period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4462/19]
• 2019-01-22
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his views on the application by an organisation (details supplied) for a change of use of public spaces in an area in order to provide additional social housing units; the details of the proposed rental scheme that will be offered to new tenants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2465/19]
• 2019-01-15
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he will report on the vacant homes action plan with details across the country of the repair and lease scheme, compulsory purchase of vacant homes and the vacant site levy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1386/19]
• 2019-01-15
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he has met or is considering meeting NAMA to discuss the part it can play in the delivery of social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1387/19]
• 2019-01-15
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he will provide a report on the repair and leasing scheme by county; the uptake of this scheme by landlords; the amount paid out; the number of units brought back into use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1393/19]
• 2019-01-15
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of properties, by county, compulsorily purchased or in which the CPO process has been initiated by the local authorities to provide social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1394/19]
• 2019-01-15
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans to introduce affordable housing schemes in 2019; when and the locations in which they will be available; the persons who will qualify; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1625/19]
• 2018-12-04
  PQ
  Asked Business

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation her views on whether the housing crisis is having a detrimental impact on skills availability and foreign direct investment here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50389/18]
• 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
• 2018-11-21
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if a person at risk of becoming homeless and has been given a valid eviction notice is entitled to the homeless HAP rates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48458/18]
• 2018-11-21
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the person or body that makes a decision as to whether a clerk of works is required on public developments such as social housing, schools and hospitals; if it is a decision for local authorities; if not, if it is a decision for Departments; the reason it would be necessary to have clerks of works on some public developments and not on others; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48556/18]
• 2018-11-20
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the reason persons (details supplied) could be refused a Rebuilding Ireland home loan on the grounds of failing to demonstrate criteria; if an appeal made against the decision will be upheld; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47744/18]
• 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 Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he will consider ordering a stay on all sales of public land by local authorities or State agencies that could provide public and affordable housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47177/18]
• 2018-11-14
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the way in which the affordable housing scheme outlined in budget 2019 will be rolled out; the number of affordable homes that will be provided in 2019 as a result of this scheme; if it is within the power of an individual local authority to fund and provide its own scheme; if so, if there are regulations that the local authorities would have to comply with; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47176/18]
• 2018-11-14
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the referendums he is planning after the blasphemy referendum of 26 October 2018. [43912/18]
• 2018-11-13
  PQ
  Asked Finance

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance the number of social housing units offered to local authorities and approved housing bodies by the name of the development and residential location and the local authority area from inception to date in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46747/18]
• 2018-11-13
  PQ
  Asked Finance

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance the criterion used by NAMA to select residential units to be offered for social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46748/18]
• 2018-11-13
  PQ
  Asked Finance

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance the reasons given to NAMA for rejection and acceptance, respectively, by the local authorities and approved housing bodies of the social housing units offered to them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46749/18]
• 2018-11-08
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if it is now a legal requirement to have a clerk of works on all building developments; if not, the reason therefor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46192/18]
• 2018-11-06
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government when calculating deductions for means testing the housing adaption grant for persons with disabilities, if the full amount of carer's allowance will be deducted in addition to as a further €5,000 in cases in which the person to which the grant application relates is being cared for by a relative on a full-time basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45343/18]
• 2018-10-25
  PQ
  Asked Finance

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance his views on the macroeconomic impact of the escalating housing crisis and the potential drain on the public finances of Rebuilding Ireland's heavy reliance on the private property sector to deliver social housing in view of the rapidly inflating cost of rents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44230/18]
• 2018-10-25
  PQ
  Asked Finance

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance his plans in relation to NAMA and the contribution it could make to delivering public and affordable housing in view of the housing emergency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44227/18]
• 2018-10-24
  PQ
  Asked Public

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has assessed the impact on State finances of the reliance of Rebuilding Ireland on private tenancies to deliver social housing in view of the report on current and capital expenditure on social housing delivery mechanisms of July 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43923/18]
• 2018-10-04
  VOTE
  Housing

  • ✓ voted for the motion motion passed · 83–43
• 2018-10-02
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if the original developers are responsible for rectifying fire safety defects in a multi-unit development in cases in which there are multiple owners, including private owners' receivers in which the receivers are also the developers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39423/18]
• 2018-09-27
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his views on the recommendation in the IGEES current and capital expenditure on social housing delivery mechanisms report from July 2018 which states that there should be a greater emphasis on construction and acquisition rather than leasing, HAP and RAS for the delivery of social housing, particularly in areas in which rents and property prices are high, in the interests of value for money; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38898/18]
• 2018-09-27
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he will facilitate a meeting with Dún Laoghaire Deputies, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council and officials from his Department to discuss and progress the plans for 100% social and affordable housing at the Shanganagh Castle site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38897/18]
• 2018-09-25
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the process involved in releasing funds and agreeing the proposal for 100% social and affordable housing on the Shanganagh Castle site in Shankill, County Dublin; the way in which the promised announcement of an affordable housing scheme relates to same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38639/18]
• 2018-09-25
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of proposals for social housing from local authorities being processed by his Department by local authority, date of receipt of proposal, stage the proposal is at and expected date of sign-off; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38640/18]
• 2018-09-25
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of Part V's delivered in 2017, by local authority; the price paid by the local authority; the details of the lease agreements; the length of leases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38838/18]
• 2018-09-25
  VOTE
  Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government

  • ✓ voted for the motion motion failed · 49–59
• 2018-09-07
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the full year cost of the HAP and RAS programmes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36596/18]
• 2018-07-24
  PQ
  Asked Finance

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance the details of all its empty properties and land banks that have not yet been sold with regard to NAMA's assets; the negotiations that have taken place to acquire these homes for social and or affordable housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35043/18]
• 2018-07-24
  PQ
  Asked Employment

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to the transfer of rent allowance recipients to HAP, leasing arrangements and RAS, if the moneys saved have then been transferred to the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government; the organisation responsible for the payments; if so, the amount in each of the years since the beginning of these payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35069/18]
• 2018-07-24
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the grounds or circumstances in which a county council can use its powers to freeze land zoned for development to ensure that no development takes place for a period of time; the parameters of this freezing; if this is an executive or reserved function of the county council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34082/18]
• 2018-07-24
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the changes he will make to ensure that a person with a mortgage on an affordable home that is jointly with a council and with a mortgage provider, can change mortgage providers to avail of the best rates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34093/18]
• 2018-07-24
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of housing applicants on local authority lists here after the assessment of needs earlier in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35060/18]
• 2018-07-24
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of applicants on the RAS and HAP transfer lists. [35061/18]
• 2018-07-24
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of vacant properties; the number suitable for social housing; the number that have been considered for acquisition by local authorities by authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35062/18]
• 2018-07-24
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the full cost of emergency accommodation in 2015, 2016, 2017 and projected for 2018 and 2019 by local authority and type of emergency accommodation, that is, hotels, bed and breakfast accommodation, hostels and family hubs. [35063/18]
• 2018-07-24
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the annual spend for 2015, 2016 and 2017 and the projected spend for 2018 and 2019 on leasing, housing assistance payment and rental accommodation scheme agreements between local authorities and landlords by authority and type of agreement; and the number of these arrangements that are direct transfers from rent allowance arrangements. [35065/18]
• 2018-07-24
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the estimated cost to provide a home to every person on local authority homeless lists, that is, excluding use of the private rental market in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35066/18]
• 2018-07-24
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the average cost of building council housing on publicly owned land that is fully serviced. [35064/18]
• 2018-07-24
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the amount paid for consultancy services in each of the years 2012 to 2017; the details of these payments; the companies that received the payments; the amount received by each company; the hourly rates that applied to each company; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35385/18]
• 2018-07-24
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the amount paid for external legal services in each of the years 2012 to 2017; the details of these payments; the companies that received the payments; the amount received by each company; the hourly rates that applied to each company; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35400/18]
• 2018-07-11
  PQ
  Asked Finance

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance if the mandate of NAMA will be changed to become a vehicle for the delivery of public and affordable housing rather than selling land and assets under its control to private investors engaging in these practices in view of the mounting evidence of widespread land hoarding and property speculation and the impact this is having on the housing crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31030/18]
• 2018-07-10
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the details of the new €2 billion urban regeneration and development fund, URDF; his views on its potential to deliver affordable homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30728/18]
• 2018-07-10
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he will report on the information session on the urban regeneration and development fund held on 9 July 2018 for local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30729/18]
• 2018-07-10
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the details of the serviced sites fund for affordable housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30730/18]
• 2018-07-10
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the parameters of affordable homes further to his statement (details supplied); the way in which affordable is defined; the persons that will be eligible for these homes; the way in which the allocation of the homes will be operated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30731/18]
• 2018-07-03
  PQ
  Asked Justice

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Justice and Equality to outline the programmes available for refugees here under the EU relocation programme for permanent housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28943/18]
• 2018-06-28
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if funding will be provided for Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council to carry out the repairs necessary to Dún Laoghaire harbour to bring it up to a taking-in-charge standard as outlined by the recent due diligence and risk management reports received by the council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28451/18]
• 2018-06-20
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he will give a commitment, in view of the housing emergency and the abundant availability of public land in the State, to initiate an emergency building programme of public and affordable housing on public land; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27122/18]
• 2018-06-20
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if housing assistance payment, HAP, and rental accommodation scheme, RAS, tenancies will be redefined in a way that acknowledges that these tenancies are not the same as local authority tenancies (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26888/18]
• 2018-06-20
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his views on whether there is an issue with land hoarding and property speculation that is having a negative impact on the delivery of public and affordable housing; his plans to deal with the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26885/18]
• 2018-06-20
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he will report on the availability of emergency accommodation, in particular the emergency accommodation that can cater for larger families that are increasingly not accepted by hotels and bed and breakfasts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26889/18]
• 2018-06-20
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the reason his Department has not rolled out an affordable housing scheme; his views on the impact this has had on the delivery of public housing on public land; his plans to introduce an affordable housing scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26886/18]
• 2018-06-20
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the reason all bids for local infrastructure housing activation fund, LIHAF, building must demonstrate high levels of affordability (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26887/18]
• 2018-06-20
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he has had engagement with the National Economic and Social Council since the publication of its report Urban Development Land, Housing and Infrastructure: Fixing Ireland’s Broken System. [22710/18]
• 2018-06-20
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the recently published NESC report entitled Urban Development Land, Housing and Infrastructure: Fixing Ireland's Broken System. [25389/18]
• 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
• 2018-05-17
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if receivers are bound by the Tyrrellstown Amendment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21784/18]
• 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
• 2018-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the action he plans to take to address the difficulty of housing applicants in finding private rented accommodation within the HAP or homeless HAP limits in many parts of Dublin and the refusal of local authorities to provide increases in these limits in line with actual rents in these areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19870/18]
• 2018-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans to make legislative changes to ensure that persons in receipt of the housing assistance payment, HAP, are kept on the regular social housing list rather than on a transfer list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19867/18]
• 2018-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans to review and increase the income limits for eligibility for social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19869/18]
• 2018-05-08
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he will report on the latest homeless figures; the reason he is of the view these figures have been overstated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19866/18]
• 2018-05-01
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans for families who availed of the affordable housing scheme and now need to move due to geographical or family size but are not in a position to increase their mortgage and the clawback is still owing to the council in view of the fact that there is no follow-on to the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18919/18]
• 2018-04-17
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his views on whether it is a conflict of interest that a person (details supplied) is also a board member of an organisation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15022/18]
• 2018-03-27
  PQ
  Asked Finance

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance the way in which Home Building Finance Ireland, HBFI, will contribute to delivering more affordable housing stock; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13950/18]
• 2018-03-20
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of homes built by each local authority; the number built for use as public housing by other bodies and various bodies; the number of private homes built; the percentage of private homes built that were subsequently used as public housing via Part V or other mechanisms in each of the years since 1970, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12846/18]
• 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 Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he will review the housing assistance payment limits in view of a recent report (details supplied) on rent increases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9534/18]
• 2018-02-27
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he will review the income limits for eligibility for inclusion on the social housing waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9535/18]
• 2018-02-20
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if a decision to remove a family from the housing list due to temporarily exceeding the income thresholds is open to appeal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8276/18]
• 2018-02-13
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the detail of the self-build aspect of the home loan scheme; the way in which the value of the property at completion will be ascertained; if there will be a limit to the number of applicants to the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6716/18]
• 2018-02-06
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the agency responsible for taking action against a landlord who discriminates against a person on the basis of refusing to take a housing assistance payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5786/18]
• 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
  • ~ abstained on the motion the motion motion failed · 40–85
  • ✓ voted to add 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 Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans to revert to the original proposal with regard to LIHAF-funded developments as set out in circular PL 10/2016 of 26 August 2016, which required an affordability dimension for each site such that a minimum of 40% of homes were to be affordable; his further plans to ensure that affordable is defined so that they are accessible to those on low and middle incomes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4682/18]
• 2018-01-31
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans to establish direct employment of construction workers by local authorities to ensure speedy delivery of secure homes for those in need; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4424/18]
• 2018-01-31
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans to raise the income thresholds for eligibility for social housing; his further plans to review the way in which these thresholds are being implemented in local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4420/18]
• 2018-01-31
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his views on whether it is appropriate that those on the housing assistance payment, HAP, transfer list in local authorities are not counted as still having a housing need despite the insecurity of their tenancies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4421/18]
• 2018-01-31
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans to ensure that a mechanism is included in plans for affordable housing such that these houses remain affordable if sold in the future, including making it mandatory for the homes to only be sold back to the relevant local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4423/18]
• 2018-01-31
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the way in which he is planning to reduce the flow of families and individuals into homelessness as a result of evictions and mortgage repossessions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4422/18]
• 2018-01-31
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if local authorities are obliged to inform those seeking council accommodation of their position on the waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4749/18]
• 2018-01-23
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if there have been applications for a foreshore licence from a company (details supplied) to allow for an exploratory rig on the Kish Bank; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3298/18]
• 2018-01-17
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of sites that have been entered in every city and council vacant sites register from 1 January 2017 to 1 January 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2184/18]
• 2018-01-17
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the details of the proposed provision of €25 million over 2018 and 2019 to unlock local authority owned lands specifically for affordable models such as co-operative schemes; the progress that has been made in developing models of affordable housing and co-operatives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2371/18]
• 2018-01-17
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the advice which can be given to co-operative housing bodies such as an organisation (details supplied) that wishes to meet with local authorities and present proposals for a co-operative housing project in the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown area in view of the fact that as yet no process exists for such proposals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2372/18]
• 2017-12-07
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the criteria he plans to establish regarding affordability in local infrastructure housing activation fund, LIHAF, funded developments and on publicly owned land; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52267/17]
• 2017-12-07
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans to take vacant properties into public ownership in view of the worsening homeless emergency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52268/17]
• 2017-11-29
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the social housing delivered under each of the categories (details supplied) by local authority, in each of the years 2011 to 2016 and to date in 2017, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51242/17]
• 2017-11-29
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the social housing targets committed to in Rebuilding Ireland under each of the categories (details supplied), by local authority for each of the years over the next five years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51243/17]
• 2017-11-28
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the public contracts between his Department and companies (details supplied) in each of the years 2011 to 2016; the value of each contract; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50404/17]
• 2017-11-21
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government to outline the options available for affordable housing for persons not eligible for social housing; the way in which to access these options; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49025/17]
• 2017-11-07
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if there is a scheme to facilitate persons on the housing list in Dublin to move outside of Dublin and take vacant properties in rural areas if they wish to do so; if not, his plans to set up such a scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45799/17]
• 2017-10-26
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the way in which he envisages reaching the housing assistance payment, HAP, targets in Rebuilding Ireland in view of current rent prices and supply problems in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45301/17]
• 2017-10-26
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his views on whether the process that homeless persons must go through when there is no placement available for them from the DRHE to be satisfactory in view of the chronic shortage of both emergency placements and hotel and guesthouse accommodation; his plans to make changes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45302/17]
• 2017-10-26
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if an affordable housing scheme to guide councils in providing affordable homes and to ensure that affordable homes will remain affordable into the future, even if there is a change of ownership, will be put in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45303/17]
• 2017-10-26
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans for the roll-out of a fully staffed full-time place finder service for those looking for a home; when it will be introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45300/17]
• 2017-10-26
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the way in which he envisages the affordability requirement of LIHAF funding being delivered across the country and in Dublin in particular; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45299/17]
• 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
• 2017-10-10
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the body responsible for ensuring that disability access and facilities are maintained to suitable standards in retail buildings in which these facilities exist; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42942/17]
• 2017-10-10
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if the corporate policy groups and strategic policy committees guidelines for the establishment and operation issued by his Department in June 2014 (details supplied) intended to expand the role, function and responsibilities of corporate policy groups beyond policy matters (details supplied); if the corporate policy group in the new role would be empowered to organise the business of the elected council; if so, the location in section 133 of the Local Government Act 2001, as amended by the Local Government Reform Act 2014, in which such powers, functions or responsibilities are sourced for inclusion in the guidelines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42392/17]
• 2017-10-03
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the regulations on the allocation of council houses on medical grounds; the regulations on the prioritisation of persons with disabilities and those with medical issues that are not considered to be disabilities for social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41377/17]
• 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
• 2017-09-26
  PQ
  Asked Public

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to increase staffing levels and to ensure adequate funding for same in view of the clear connection between staff shortages and significant crises across the public sector in areas such as housing, health and, in particular, mental health; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40480/17]
• 2017-09-26
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if a person is liable for a full month's car tax if he or she purchases a car part way through the month; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40169/17]
• 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 Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the maximum amount a person in receipt of HAP is allowed to contribute towards rent; if this is stated in the legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39573/17]
• 2017-09-20
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if a person must pay their water bill in order to purchase a local authority house through the incremental purchase scheme, in view of the fact that refunds are now being issued; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39580/17]
• 2017-09-20
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the policy on private tenants in situ in apartments that have been bought by a voluntary housing body when those tenants are entitled to HAP; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39728/17]
• 2017-09-20
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the rights of a private tenant that is eligible for housing and housing assistance payment, HAP; and who lives in a property that has been bought by a voluntary housing body but is not paying differential rent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39729/17]
• 2017-09-20
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the proposed figures for investment in repairing and upgrading the water infrastructure over the coming three years. [39783/17]
• 2017-09-20
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the estimated cost in 2018 to reduce leakages in water infrastructure from current levels to 25%. [39784/17]
• 2017-07-26
  PQ
  Asked Finance

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance the details of all empty properties and land banks in NAMA's assets that have not yet been sold; the negotiations that have taken place to acquire these homes for social and or affordable housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36299/17]
• 2017-07-26
  PQ
  Asked Social

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection further to the transfer of rent allowance recipients to HAP, leasing arrangements and RAS, if the moneys saved have then been transferred to the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government; the organisation responsible for the latter payments; if so, the amount in each of the years since the beginning of these payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36364/17]
• 2017-07-26
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if a landlord can withhold moneys from a deposit in lieu of outstanding water charges; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35108/17]
• 2017-07-26
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the annual spend for 2015 and 2016 and the projected spend for 2017 and 2018 on leasing, HAP and RAS agreements between local authorities and landlords broken down by authority and by type of agreement; and the number of these arrangements that are direct transfers from rent allowance arrangements. [36345/17]
• 2017-07-26
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of leasing, RAS and HAP agreements that are being supported by his Department in 2015, 2016 and projected for 2017 broken down by local authority and type of arrangement. [36346/17]
• 2017-07-26
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the full cost of emergency accommodation in 2015, 2016 and projected for 2017 broken down by local authority and type of emergency accommodation, that is, hotels, bed and breakfasts, hostels and family hubs. [36347/17]
• 2017-07-26
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of vacant properties; the number suitable for social housing; the number that have been considered for acquisition by local authorities broken down by authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36348/17]
• 2017-07-26
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the publicly owned land zoned for housing, broken down by local authority; if these lands are serviced, partially serviced or unserviced; the number of homes that could be built on this land; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36349/17]
• 2017-07-26
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of housing applicants on local authority lists after the assessment of needs of earlier in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36350/17]
• 2017-07-26
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the average cost of building council housing on publicly owned land that is fully serviced. [36351/17]
• 2017-07-26
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if an environmental impact assessment was required by his Department in the granting of the foreshore licence to a company (details supplied) for kelp harvesting in Bantry Bay; if not, the reason; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36525/17]
• 2017-07-26
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if the monitoring programme attached to the foreshore licence granted to a company (details supplied) to harvest kelp in Bantry Bay will be carried out by the company; the reason he deems it appropriate for the monitoring to be carried out by a private for-profit company and not by an independent body; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36528/17]
• 2017-07-26
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the procedure for the granting of the foreshore licence to a company (details supplied) for kelp harvesting in Bantry Bay; if all statutory bodies, stakeholders and interested parties were informed of the application; the type of public consultation that was undertaken; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36541/17]
• 2017-07-26
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the annual yield for motor tax projected for 2018; the yield for the past five years; the way these moneys were allocated; his plans for allocation of these funds for 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36657/17]
• 2017-07-26
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will investigate the case of the eviction of all tenants from a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36660/17]
• 2017-07-13
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will ensure a place finder team is established in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown as a matter of urgency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33185/17]
• 2017-07-13
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the measures he will take to ensure the maximum delivery of both social and affordable housing in Cherrywood and the Shanganagh Castle site in Shankill as part of his review of Rebuilding Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33186/17]
• 2017-07-12
  PQ
  Asked Taoiseach

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach if he will establish a Cabinet Committee on Housing. [32518/17]
• 2017-07-12
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the status of the commitments in the programme for Government on improving the lives of persons with disabilities. [29820/17]
• 2017-07-05
  PQ
  Asked Finance

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance if he will consider a change to the remit of NAMA in view of the ongoing lack of supply in the housing market and the housing and homelessness crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31475/17]
• 2017-07-04
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the way in which the place finder service works; the way in which homeless persons or persons at risk of homelessness access this service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30987/17]
• 2017-06-27
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the way in which the place finder system is working across the four Dublin local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29536/17]
• 2017-06-27
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government further to Part V legislation, his views on whether the 10% social housing requirement should be 10% of floor space, 10% of units, 10% of the land or all three; his views on whether there should be a mix of 1, 2, 3 and 4-bedroom houses and apartments within the 10% of social housing; if there are requirements for disabled access units; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29537/17]
• 2017-06-27
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will report on his meeting with the Dublin local authorities regarding the housing crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29538/17]
• 2017-06-27
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans for an affordable housing scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29539/17]
• 2017-06-27
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the requirements for affordable homes in developments in receipt of LIHAF funding; his plans to enforce the €300,000 maximum price in Dublin; if not, the reason for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29540/17]
• 2017-06-27
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to discuss with the Minister for Finance a change to the mandate of NAMA to include a greater transfer of residential property and building land from NAMA to local authorities to alleviate the continuing and escalating housing crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29541/17]
• 2017-05-30
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to raise the current income limits to qualify for social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25286/17]
• 2017-05-30
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the position regarding a situation in which a person who has entered into a housing assistance payment, HAP, tenancy and has an increase in earnings pushing him or her over the limit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25455/17]
• 2017-05-25
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on the recent figures released by the CSO with regard to housing in the context of the Rebuilding Ireland targets. [20060/17]
• 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
• 2017-05-23
  PQ
  Asked Justice

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if refugees who come here as convention applicants will be provided with the same supports that are afforded to programme refugees, specifically in terms of key worker, financial and housing supports; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24344/17]
• 2017-05-23
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the person or organisation that is legally responsible in the event of an apartment complex having been issued with a fire certificate by the local authority and subsequently found to be non compliant with fire regulations upon inspection by the fire officer and requiring remedial works; if the person responsible is the builder, the architect, the developer, the owners or the local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24162/17]
• 2017-05-23
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on whether the self regulatory system should be reformed and an approved inspector model adopted in view of the number of developments built in recent years that are in breach of fire safety regulations and require remedial works; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24295/17]
• 2017-05-04
  PQ
  Asked Agriculture

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will liaise with the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government to put in place a community led afforestation project, co-ordinated by local authorities across the country, to increase tree cover as part of the effort to tackle climate change; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21110/17]
• 2017-05-02
  PQ
  Asked Taoiseach

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Housing last met; and when it will next meet. [17911/17]
• 2017-04-06
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the detail of the affordable rental scheme; the number of properties which have been secured to date; the costs involved; the numbers of persons that have accessed the scheme; the bodies which manage the scheme; the channels through which persons have accessed the scheme; the amount of further housing which will be secured via this scheme each year until 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17160/17]
• 2017-04-04
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett 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 in under the Freedom of Information Acts in the interest of openness, accountability and transparency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16663/17]
• 2017-03-28
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government when the 2017 funding for housing adaptation grants will be allocated to Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14901/17]
• 2017-03-21
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of adapted units that will be allocated to housing persons during phase 2 and phase 3, respectively, of a development (details supplied); the estimated time of completion of both phases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12805/17]
• 2017-03-21
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to commence the national differential rents framework provided for in section 31 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 2009; his plans to exclude family income supplement and disability payments for local authority rent assessments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12985/17]
• 2017-02-23
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on whether his plans to deliver social housing via the private sector are adequate in view of the increasing numbers of those in homeless services and those awaiting housing; his further views on whether they will result in homeless figures reducing and secure tenancies being provided for those awaiting homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8951/17]
• 2017-02-23
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will consider legislation to bring rents back to 2010 levels in view of the recent report by a company (details supplied) regarding rental increases across the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8949/17]
• 2017-02-23
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will recruit new staff to ensure each local authority has a housing assistance payment, HAP, team that will provide practical assistance to applicants to find tenancies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8948/17]
• 2017-02-23
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if, in view of the fact developers can deliver the social housing Part V requirement of any given development in a different location, the way in which this provision will maintain or achieve the social mix that this requirement is meant to provide; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8952/17]
• 2017-02-23
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he has requested local authorities to ascertain the number of swimming pools that are in private residences across the country in view of his support for an excessive use water charge. [9182/17]
• 2017-02-23
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of employees in his Department and under its aegis who are suspended from work without prejudice and on full pay pending an investigation. [9718/17]
• 2017-02-22
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of housing assistance payment, HAP, tenancies that have been secured in 2014, 2015 and 2016; the length of time each of these tenancies is for; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8954/17]
• 2017-02-21
  PQ
  Asked Taoiseach

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach if the Cabinet Committee on Housing has met recently. [8467/17]
• 2017-02-01
  PQ
  Asked Taoiseach

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing last met. [4125/17]
• 2017-01-31
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will ensure that all homeless persons, regardless of the location in which they live or their family status, will have access to a key worker or similar support, in view of the fact this is a crucial service in order to help persons get back on their feet; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4479/17]
• 2017-01-19
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he has had any discussion with the Minister for Social Protection on the inclusion of FIS as a reckonable payment for local authority rent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36048/16]
• 2017-01-18
  PQ
  Asked Transport

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are any set rules or guidelines with regard to the N11 to preclude a developer putting access to a new housing development from the N11; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2056/17]
• 2017-01-17
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will establish unused properties registers across all local authorities (details supplied). [1393/17]
• 2017-01-17
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if there is any mechanism by which notification can issue if a foreshore licence is applied for by a company (details supplied) in respect of oil and gas exploration at Kish bank; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1578/17]
• 2016-12-16
  VOTE
  Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad] · 8 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
  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion passed · 51–40
• 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 Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will take the high rents in Dún Laoghaire Rathdown and their impact on families into consideration and instruct the local authority to employ flexibility with income limits in the assessment of eligibility for social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39391/16]
• 2016-12-13
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council is within its rights to assess carer's allowance for rent purposes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40167/16]
• 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
• 2016-12-06
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if Ministers and Deputies who sit on the Expert Commission on Domestic Public Water Services are paid extra for this; if so, the amount; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38532/16]
• 2016-11-29
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if the planning and environment regulations regarding environmental impact assessments in the regulatory framework here has been amended to comply with the EU directive, as was indicated by the previous Minister (details supplied), to remove obstacles to a foreshore licence application by providence resources to drill on the Kish Bank; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37449/16]
• 2016-11-22
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will instruct Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council to grant a person (details supplied) early entry into the HAP scheme to prevent them from becoming homeless; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35759/16]
• 2016-11-22
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans for affordable lettings in the context of rebuilding Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35915/16]
• 2016-11-22
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will ensure that the delivery of the Part V requirement at the Cherrywood SDZ is front loaded in order that a minimum of 800 council managed and owned units will be delivered in the first tranche of 2,000 homes due; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35916/16]
• 2016-11-22
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the details of plans for public private partnerships in housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35917/16]
• 2016-11-22
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if councils should proceed with traditional build social housing in order to ensure there are no delays with regard to councils that are awaiting details of the rapid delivery procurement procedures before they proceed with housing plans on specific sites; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35918/16]
• 2016-11-22
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the amount of money that has been available for Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council to draw down and the amount that has been drawn down for capital spending on Traveller accommodation over each of the years 2011 to 2015 and to date in 2016; and the way these figures compare with all other councils across the country. [35919/16]
• 2016-11-17
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of council houses owned and managed by local authorities that will be delivered in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020 under the Rebuilding Ireland plan; if he will provide a breakdown of these figures by local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35506/16]
• 2016-11-17
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he is satisfied that the plans for 8,000 homes in the Cherrywood SDZ will deliver sufficient social housing and affordable homes for low and middle income earners to rent and buy for this planned new town; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35479/16]
• 2016-11-17
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on whether rent controls are urgently needed considering the further dramatic increases in rent in Dublin and other urban centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35477/16]
• 2016-11-17
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans for rapid-build housing; the planned per-unit cost of these homes; the speed at which they can be delivered; the comparison in both cost and delivery time with traditional-build council houses; if he will provide a breakdown of plans for these kind of houses, by local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35480/16]
• 2016-11-17
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the progress of the housing assistance payment scheme, HAP, across each local authority; his views on whether it is on target to reach the numbers planned in Rebuilding Ireland; his further views on whether this scheme faces more challenges in areas of the country where rents are particularly high; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35481/16]
• 2016-11-17
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will reconsider the plan for opening libraries without the necessary skilled staff in view of the nationwide ballot of librarians on the issue of staffless libraries and the widespread public opposition to this plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35478/16]
• 2016-11-02
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the details of the buy-and-renewal scheme; the way it can be accessed; when it will be rolled out in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32565/16]
• 2016-11-02
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to raise the income threshold for social housing applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32623/16]
• 2016-10-27
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 200 and 226 of 11 October 2016, if he will consider taking out those two sources of income in his deliberations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32446/16]
• 2016-10-11
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will commit to raising the issue regarding subsidiary earners on disability allowance being assessed for rent in council tenancies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29510/16]
• 2016-10-11
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will consider in his deliberations on the new local authority rent scheme removing both disability allowance and family income supplement for subsidiary earners from rental assessment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29487/16]
• 2016-10-05
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his plans for mixed-tenure social and affordable developments on publicly-owned land, outlined in Rebuilding Ireland, will effectively mean the privatisation of publicly-owned land; his understanding of what constitutes affordable rental and the way in which this differs from the current local authority housing model, or the HAP and RAS schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28730/16]
• 2016-10-05
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the amount of money projected to be spent on the rental accommodation scheme, RAS, housing assistance payment, HAP, and long-term leasing programmes over each of the years 2017 to 2021, listing the cost of each programme separately; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28687/16]
• 2016-10-05
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will consider a national building agency that would directly employ builders to spearhead a public housing building programme in view of the average nine-month timeline for the procurement and tendering process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28690/16]
• 2016-10-05
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the options available to local authorities when negotiating with private developers on the social housing Part V component of private developments; the way in which local authorities may be able to increase the social housing component beyond 10%; the way in which a reasonable profit for the developer will be established; the cost of the Part V component agreed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28691/16]
• 2016-10-05
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the numbers of houses that will be directly built by local authorities, as against approved housing bodies, over each of the years 2017 to 2021, broken down by local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28688/16]
• 2016-10-05
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the options for local authorities for the tender process; the reason for the recent delays in the houses planned in Cherry Orchard, Darndale, Finglas and Drimnagh; and the projected unit cost for all such homes to be delivered in 2017. [28689/16]
• 2016-10-04
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if persons signing tenancy agreements under the HAP scheme will automatically be put on the council transfer list; when the HAP scheme will be rolled out fully in the four Dublin local authority areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28111/16]
• 2016-10-04
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the additional funding allocation he has received in the context of the housing crisis and the Government's commitment to increase capital spending; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19757/16]
• 2016-10-04
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will consider a national building agency that would directly employ builders to spearhead a public housing building programme in view of his concerns over housing supply, noted in his Department's draft national risk assessment report, and the risk this poses to overall competitiveness and social inclusion. [20697/16]
• 2016-09-29
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government to set down the full cost in 2017 of abolishing water charges. [28027/16]
• 2016-09-27
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the projected cost of providing 100,000 council homes over the next five years if these homes were to be provided and managed by local authorities, not leased or rented from developers or private landlords, taking into account both the savings in the savings accrued from the transfer of those in supported private rented accommodation and emergency accommodation and the extra revenue accrued by local authorities in rent. [27491/16]
• 2016-09-27
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the cost of building 20,000 local authority homes ensuring that all of these homes are managed by local authorities and not leased or rented from private landlords or developers, taking into account both the savings in the savings accrued from the transfer of those in supported private rented accommodation and emergency accommodation and the extra revenue accrued by local authorities in rent. [27492/16]
• 2016-09-27
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the cost of restoring the local government fund to 2008 levels. [27493/16]
• 2016-09-27
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the cost of dismantling Irish Water and abolishing water charges. [27494/16]
• 2016-09-27
  PQ
  Asked Communications

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will end direct State subsidies and grants in any form to developers and builders involved in building private speculative housing for profit; and the projected savings that this would bring. [27507/16]
• 2016-09-16
  PQ
  Asked Housing

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if housing assistance payment tenancies will be extended to more than two years, which is a very short period of time and not in line with sustainable tenancies; the reason the payment is stopped to the landlord with no recourse if the tenant does not pay their portion of the rent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24793/16]
• 2016-06-28
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his detailed funding plans for 50,000 local authority houses; if he envisages that all of these houses will be managed by local authorities given the recent Oireachtas Committee on Housing and Homelessness report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18450/16]
• 2016-06-21
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of extra staff that have been employed in local authorities and to which authorities, to support the housing assistance payment and rent accommodation scheme, and to which scheme they have been allocated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16804/16]
• 2016-06-21
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he received a request from Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council for extra staff to facilitate the roll-out of the housing assistance payment and rent accommodation scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16805/16]
• 2016-06-21
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government to provide copies of memos, instructions and directives to local authorities or individual communications to particular councils in relation to all aspects of housing, including but not limited to, staffing levels, emergency accommodation, building programmes, acquisitions, Part 5 and Part 8 and allocation priorities since 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16806/16]
• 2016-06-14
  PQ
  Asked Taoiseach

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach the number of meetings of the Cabinet Committee on Construction 2020, Housing, Planning and Mortgage Arrears in 2016 to date; and the proposed dates for any upcoming meetings. [14507/16]
• 2016-05-25
  PQ
  Asked Taoiseach

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach if he raised the issue of Ireland's housing and homelessness crisis at the most recent meeting of the European Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10150/16]
• 2016-04-27
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if the housing assistance payment limit will be raised to an extra €125 per month for a person (details supplied). [8555/16]
• 2016-04-27
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 488 of 20 April 2016, the reason only 19 authorities are rolling out housing assistance payment for all households; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8557/16]
• 2016-04-27
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if, with regard to the housing assistance payment for homeless pilot in the four Dublin local authorities, he will put in place the resources within each local authority to assist homeless persons and families and those in immediate risk of homelessness to find a housing assistance payment tenancy instead of the current practice of leaving it entirely up to the vulnerable housing applicants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8558/16]
• 2016-04-27
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if, with regard to the housing assistance payment for homeless pilot in the four Dublin local authorities, he will provide the resources necessary to establish a housing assistance payment landlord recruitment team considering the very low take-up of housing assistance payment in Fingal and Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown in particular; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8559/16]
• 2016-04-27
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a list of the limits for housing assistance payment in each of the local authorities for each different family size; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8560/16]
• 2016-04-20
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government for a detailed report on the numbers of landlords and property owners who have signed up under the housing assistance payment scheme, by local authority, in 2015 and 2016, in tabular form. [7766/16]
• 2016-04-14
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the cost of the rapid build housing programme in Ballymun in Dublin 11; and the length of time the project took from the beginning of the process. [6672/16]
• 2016-04-14
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government for a progress report on the Social Housing Strategy 2020, including the numbers of houses delivered by each local authority under each category. [6675/16]
• 2015-12-10
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government in the context of the current housing and homelessness emergency and in order to accelerate the delivery of permanent social housing, if he will consider the purchase of hundreds of permanent homes currently advertised for sale as an alternative to modular housing, the direct transfer of National Asset Management Agency property and cash reserves to the local authorities, and the direct employment by the State of building workers, architects, engineers and so on to build social housing and thus eliminate the lengthy delays involved in the outsourcing and tendering process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44256/15]
• 2015-12-10
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government to lift the restriction in the rental accommodation scheme which requires applicants to be in receipt of rent allowance to allow those in low-paid work to access the scheme, as the housing assistance payment has not been rolled out across all local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44132/15]
• 2015-12-10
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his plans for replenishing actual housing stock, given the announcement of the new tenant purchase scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44130/15]
• 2015-12-10
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government considering the housing and homelessness crisis, if he will consider, as an alternative to temporary modular homes, purchasing an equivalent number of permanent homes, hundreds of which are currently advertised for sale at equivalent prices to the cost of modular homes, and which would move quickly and more permanently provide homes for those with housing need; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44129/15]
• 2015-12-01
  PQ
  Asked Taoiseach

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Construction 2020, housing, planning and mortgage arrears last met. [40154/15]
• 2015-11-26
  VOTE
  Planning and Development (Urgent Social Housing Supply) Policy Directive 2015

  • ✗ voted against the motion motion passed · 51–33
• 2015-11-24
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government to provide assurances to tenants of voluntary housing agencies that the new legislation placing these agencies under the remit of the Private Residential Tenancies Board from 2016 will make no material change to their tenancy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41608/15]
• 2015-11-18
  PQ
  Asked Finance

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance his role and input in the recent discussions around controls, regulations and new initiatives in the rental and housing market; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40379/15]
• 2015-11-18
  VOTE
  Housing and Homelessness · 2 divisions

  • ✗ voted against the motion the motion motion passed · 67–41
  • ✗ voted to reject an amendment to the bill motion passed · 67–40
• 2015-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government given the escalating housing and homelessness crisis resulting from unaffordable and escalating rents, and the inadequate supply of social housing, if he has progressed any specific proposals on rent controls; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38233/15]
• 2015-11-05
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his views on whether there is now a housing accommodation and homelessness emergency affecting a vast number of our citizens, including those on housing lists, persons in homeless services, Travellers, asylum seekers in direct provision and other persons threatened with homelessness because of rising rents or mortgage arrears and a formal national emergency should be declared around these issues; that such an emergency should prompt stepping outside the European Union fiscal rules to enable the necessary mobilisation of extra funds and investment to resolve this crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38232/15]
• 2015-10-07
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the reason ten of the 16 social housing units at St. Lawrence’s Park in Stillorgan, County Dublin are empty and are not being considered or offered for social housing at a time of unprecedented demand for such units; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34859/15]
• 2015-10-06
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of National Asset Management Agency properties, broken down by local authority area, that have been identified by the agency as suitable homes for inclusion in the social housing list; the number, that have been offered to each of the local authorities; that have been transferred to the local authorities; and the scheme under which have they been transferred, for example rental accommodation scheme, housing assistance payment, social housing leasing initiative, etc. [34640/15]
• 2015-10-06
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the amount paid out by his Department in each local authority area for the rental accommodation scheme, housing assistance payment, and social housing leasing initiative; the number of homes that are provided under each scheme in each local authority for each month in 2015; and if he will compare the amount to the same months in 2014. [34642/15]
• 2015-10-06
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government given his targets for 2015 in the Social Housing Strategy 2020, which included 1,400 to be built or acquired by local authorities and approved housing bodies, 3000 to be provided through the social housing leasing initiative, 1,000 through vacant units returned to use, 2,000 through the rental accommodation scheme and 8,400 through the housing assistance payment; if he will provide a full breakdown for each local authority, confirming the number that have been delivered in 2015 to date; and if he expects to meet his targets by the end of 2015. [34646/15]
• 2015-10-06
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his targets for 2016 under the Social Housing Strategy 2020 in each of the funding models, including construction and acquisition. [34647/15]
• 2015-10-06
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide details, by category, and by local authority, of the spend on social housing support, including each of the different funding models, social housing construction, and acquisition, in each year since 2011 to date in 2015; and the projected funding for each of the various models in the coming years to 2021. [34648/15]
• 2015-10-06
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the amount that was allocated from his Department to the Social Housing Strategy 2020; the amount of this that was, transferred from other budgets; new funding; collected from the local property tax; the amount of this revenue that was spent; is projected to be spent over the lifetime of the strategy; and if he will provide details of the breakdown of this funding, by each funding model of the strategy. [34649/15]
• 2015-09-30
  PQ
  Asked Social

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will consider extending rent allowance support to those persons who are working full-time and who are on very low incomes in view of rapidly rising rents and the growing phenomenon of the working homeless and bearing in mind that the Government's policy is to move to the housing assistance payment scheme, which allows for recipients to work full-time; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33042/15]
• 2015-09-29
  PQ
  Asked Environment

  Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, in tabular form for each of the past 24 months, the number of households on local authority housing lists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32960/15]