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Thu, 7 Dec 2017
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Planning Guidelines
Barry Cowen
269. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if his Department, or a body under its aegis, has undertaken research of the effect of changes to section 28 guidelines for apartment standards on planning permission applications for new developments; and if there is evidence that changes to the guidelines, such as those on minimum size standards introduced in December 2015 lead to a number of applications being withdrawn. [52456/17]
Thu, 7 Dec 2017
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Planning Guidelines
Barry Cowen
270. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the minimum permitted size for a bedroom in terms of floor area, defined as the location in which a person or persons sleep, under statutory provisions; and the minimum permitted bedroom size for the private rented sector if different. [52457/17]
Thu, 7 Dec 2017
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Planning Guidelines
Barry Cowen
271. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the minimum permitted size for ceiling height for occupied dwellings, not just new dwellings; and the minimum permitted ceiling height for the private rented sector if different. [52458/17]
Wed, 6 Dec 2017
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SOLAS Funding
Barry Cowen
67. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for Education and Skills the proportion of Solas funding for further education to be performance based in the future. [51899/17]
Wed, 6 Dec 2017
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Hospital Appointments Status
Barry Cowen
173. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect an appointment. [52112/17]
Tue, 5 Dec 2017
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Garda Strength
Barry Cowen
63. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí in each Garda station in counties Laois and Offaly as of 1 November 2017; the number of community gardaí in the division; and the number of Garda Reserve and new recruits assigned to the division since recruitment resumed in 2014. [51631/17]
Tue, 5 Dec 2017
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Hospital Appointments Status
Barry Cowen
301. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect an appointment. [51426/17]
Tue, 5 Dec 2017
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Hospital Appointments Status
Barry Cowen
329. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment. [51547/17]
Tue, 5 Dec 2017
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Hospital Appointments Status
Barry Cowen
359. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect an appointment. [51757/17]
Tue, 5 Dec 2017
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Hospital Appointments Status
Barry Cowen
365. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect an appointment. [51796/17]
Tue, 5 Dec 2017
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Health Services Funding
Barry Cowen
373. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for Health when funding will be made available to the Health Service Executive for the provision of hearing aids (details supplied). [51880/17]
Tue, 28 Nov 2017
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Local Government Fund
Barry Cowen
124. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for Finance the estimated payment to the Exchequer from the local government fund in 2018. [50362/17]
Tue, 28 Nov 2017
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Hospital Appointments Status
Barry Cowen
361. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a hospital appointment. [50077/17]
Tue, 28 Nov 2017
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Local Government Fund
Barry Cowen
559. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount received by his Department from the local government fund in each of the years 2011 to 2016 and to date in 2017; and the estimated amount in 2018. [50361/17]
Tue, 28 Nov 2017
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Motor Tax Yield
Barry Cowen
722. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the motor taxation receipts received in each of the years 2011 to 2016 and to date in 2017, by county, in tabular form. [50359/17]
Tue, 28 Nov 2017
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Local Government Fund
Barry Cowen
723. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the income components and the anticipated income to the Local Government Fund in 2018; the expected expenditure items and total expenditure in 2018 following the enactment of the Water Services Act 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50360/17]
Wed, 22 Nov 2017
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Hospital Appointments Status
Barry Cowen
162. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for Health the status of a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied). [49551/17]
Thu, 16 Nov 2017
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Hospital Appointments Status
Barry Cowen
146. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for Health the status of a case (details supplied); and when the person may expect an appointment with the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital, Dublin. [48498/17]
Wed, 15 Nov 2017
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Hospital Appointments Administration
Barry Cowen
175. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect an appointment. [48414/17]
Thu, 9 Nov 2017
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Homelessness Strategy
Barry Cowen
290. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the steps he has taken arising from recommendations of a review (details supplied) of homelessness services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47549/17]
Wed, 8 Nov 2017
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Hospital Appointments Status
Barry Cowen
142. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a hospital appointment. [47158/17]
Tue, 7 Nov 2017
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General Government Debt
Barry Cowen
88. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Taoiseach the estimates for the potential change to the general Government deficit and debt of the reclassification of approved housing bodies from non-profit to General government under the European system of accounts (details supplied). [47133/17]
Tue, 7 Nov 2017
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Immigrant Investor Programme Data
Barry Cowen
528. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the number and value of investments made in the area of social and affordable housing by investors under the immigration investor programme since 2012; and his views on whether the doubling of the applications threshold from €500,000 to €1 million in 2017 will deprive the State of investment in social housing projects run by AHBs. [46454/17]
Tue, 7 Nov 2017
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Hospital Appointments Status
Barry Cowen
701. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for Health the status of the case of a person (details supplied); and when they can expect an appointment with a consultant. [46158/17]
Tue, 7 Nov 2017
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Hospital Appointments Status
Barry Cowen
702. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for Health the status of the case of a person (details supplied); and when they can expect an appointment with a consultant. [46159/17]
Tue, 7 Nov 2017
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Hospital Waiting Lists
Barry Cowen
706. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect an appointment. [46183/17]
Tue, 7 Nov 2017
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National Emergency Plan Implementation
Barry Cowen
1309. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the attendees at each national emergency committee meeting from 13 to 18 October 2017; the number of meetings held; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45950/17]
Tue, 7 Nov 2017
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Housing Policy
Barry Cowen
1323. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if he will publish the findings of the working group on rural housing; the timeframe for the publication of new guidelines on rural housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46323/17]
Tue, 7 Nov 2017
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Private Rented Accommodation Standards
Barry Cowen
1330. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the statutory definition of overcrowded housing in legislation; the statutory standards that can be used; the standards that are used for calculating the permitted number of persons for a dwelling; and the regulations that relate to statutory standards for overcrowding. [46450/17]
Tue, 7 Nov 2017
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Housing Inspections
Barry Cowen
1331. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of improvement notices, prohibitions orders and or fire safety notices there have been in each local authority or in selected ones for which there is data relating to overcrowding of rented households. [46451/17]
Tue, 7 Nov 2017
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Housing Data
Barry Cowen
1332. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if his Department or a body under its aegis has statistics on the estimated number of overcrowded households in Dublin city and suburbs and the number nationally. [46452/17]
Tue, 7 Nov 2017
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National Planning Framework
Barry Cowen
1333. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 264 of 19 October 2017, if the definition of Dublin city and suburbs matches that of the NTA in the greater Dublin transport strategy encapsulating the inner metropolitan and outer metropolitan areas of Dublin. [46453/17]
Tue, 7 Nov 2017
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Planning Issues
Barry Cowen
1359. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the reason circular letter PL 10/2017 which was sent to planning authorities and stakeholders seeking guidance on planning applications for short-term lettings only relates to apartments and not to houses in multi-unit developments or stand-alone houses; and his views on whether only applying such planning restrictions on short-term lettings to apartment owners and not to house owners would be discriminatory. [47125/17]
Tue, 7 Nov 2017
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Public Private Partnerships
Barry Cowen
1360. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the status of the social housing PPP programme; the expected cost of this to the Exchequer in terms of availability payments; if private co-financing partners have been selected for the project; the identity of these partners; when he expects construction on the first and second bundle to commence; the structure of the PPP; if local authorities and AHBs will own or lease the social housing from the investment vehicle; and if leasing, the leasing scheme involved. [47126/17]
Tue, 7 Nov 2017
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Approved Housing Bodies
Barry Cowen
1361. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his views on whether there is a risk that the finances of approved housing bodies could become classified under the general Government heading in statistical accounting due to their role in the social housing PPP programme; and if his attention has been drawn to the fact that EUROSTAT has requested the CSO to examine the impact of this programme on the classification of AHBs vis-à-vis the market/non-market test. [47127/17]
Tue, 7 Nov 2017
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Social and Affordable Housing Data
Barry Cowen
1362. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of the 10,000 social housing units that are targeted long-term lease arrangements of the 47,000 targeted in total under the action plan for housing and homelessness; and the number of these that have been delivered to date in each year. [47128/17]
Tue, 7 Nov 2017
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Social and Affordable Housing Data
Barry Cowen
1363. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of the 10,000 social housing units that are targeted under long-term lease arrangements of the 47,000 targeted in total under the action plan for housing and homelessness that are planned to come from additional supply, that is, supply built by private parties for that purpose rather than coming from existing supply or new private housing output. [47129/17]
Tue, 7 Nov 2017
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Social and Affordable Housing Data
Barry Cowen
1364. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of the 11,000 social housing units that are planned to be acquired from the market; if this includes units acquired under Part V; and if so, the percentage of the targets planned which will come from this source. [47130/17]
Tue, 7 Nov 2017
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National Planning Framework
Barry Cowen
1365. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans to publish the ESRI baseline model used for the regional population and jobs growth targets in the national planning framework, NPF, in advance of the publication of the final NPF. [47131/17]
Thu, 26 Oct 2017
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Social and Affordable Housing
Barry Cowen
1. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans to address the finding of the European Committee of Social Rights that Ireland has substandard social housing conditions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45567/17]
Thu, 26 Oct 2017
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Homelessness Strategy
Barry Cowen
3. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the allocation of additional funding to homelessness services announced in budget 2018; if he has revised targets for reducing the number of homeless families and children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45568/17]
Thu, 26 Oct 2017
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Private Rented Accommodation
Barry Cowen
8. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government his plans to regulate short-term lettings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45250/17]
Thu, 26 Oct 2017
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Urban Renewal Schemes
Barry Cowen
14. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the annual housing unit targets for the urban renewal fund announced in budget 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45249/17]
Thu, 26 Oct 2017
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Social and Affordable Housing
Barry Cowen
42. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the income limits for households to access affordable housing in his Department's plans such as the local infrastructure housing activation fund, the second LIHAF and local authority support as set out in budget 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45247/17]
Thu, 26 Oct 2017
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Social and Affordable Housing Data
Barry Cowen
45. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the social housing targets for 2018, 2019 and 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45251/17]
Thu, 26 Oct 2017
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Local Government Reform
Barry Cowen
265. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the timeframe for the review of local government constituencies and a review of local government structures as outlined in the programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45569/17]
Tue, 24 Oct 2017
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Housing Loans
Barry Cowen
49. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for Finance the role his Department has in setting out the criteria for successful applicants to the recently announced Home Building Finance Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45248/17]
Tue, 24 Oct 2017
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Social and Affordable Housing Expenditure
Barry Cowen
53. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Taoiseach if funding given to approved housing bodies for building social housing is counted towards general government fixed capital formation estimated by the CSO for EUROSTAT. [44374/17]
Tue, 24 Oct 2017
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Agriculture Scheme Applications
Barry Cowen
291. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44803/17]
Tue, 24 Oct 2017
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Planning Guidelines
Barry Cowen
431. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the timeframe for departmental guidance on short-term letting planning permission and regulation requirements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45016/17]