Departmental Communications

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 25 July 2023

Tuesday, 25 July 2023

Questions (643)

Brendan Smith

Question:

643. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his Department, and all agencies under the remit of his Department, have their telephone contact details on their websites and on other media platforms; if all stationery and headed notepaper used in correspondence with the public contain relevant phone contact details, taking into account that everybody is not in a position to correspond by e-mail; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36699/23]

Written answers

Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Ministerial letters to the general public from my Department do contain contact telephone numbers. Our stationery templates contain phone numbers – they have been developed within my Department for use by staff to champion the use of phone numbers as well as email addresses when contacting the public. In addition, a list of contact numbers for my Department is published on our website. www.gov.ie/en/organisation/department-of-housing-local-government-and-heritage/. Our social media accounts – LinkedIn, Facebook, Youtube, Twitter and Instagram all contain links to this page. 

The information requested in relation to bodies under the aegis of my Department is a matter for the individual bodies concerned. Arrangements have been put in place by each Agency to facilitate the provision of information directly to members of the Oireachtas. The contact email address for each agency is set out in the following table: 

State Body	Contact E-mails
An Bord Pleanála	[e-mail] cc: [e-mail]
An Fóram Uisce (the Water Forum)	[e-mail]
Docklands Oversight and Consultative Forum	[e-mail]
Ervia	[e-mail]
Gas Networks Ireland	[e-mail]
Heritage Council	[e-mail]
Housing Finance Agency	[e-mail]  cc: [e-mail]
Housing and Sustainable Communities Agency	[e-mail]  cc: [e-mail]
Uisce Eireann	[e-mail]
Land Development Agency	[e-mail] [e-mail]
Local Government Management Agency	[e-mail]
Maritime Area Regulatory Authority- MARA	[e-mail]
National Oversight and Audit Commission	[e-mail]
National Traveller Accommodation Consultative Committee	[e-mail]
Office of the Planning Regulator	[e-mail]
Tailte Éireann (formerly: OSI, VALOFF, PRAI)	[e-mail] cc: [e-mail]; [e-mail]; [e-mail]
Pyrite Resolution Board	[e-mail]
Residential Tenancies Board	[e-mail]
Valuation Tribunal	[e-mail]
Waterways Ireland	[e-mail]