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Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

FOI Requests — 4,047 records (page 12 of 81)

  • Received 4 July 2023
    Decided 20 July 2023
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference FOI-0281-2023
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

    In the period of 01/01/2023 to 01/06/2023, copies of listed e-Submissions made to the Minister and ancillary records attached to them: HLG 00121-23 HLG 00122-23 HLG 00127-23 HLG 00173-23 HLG 00137-23 HLG 00198-23 HLG 00206-23 HLG 00207-23 HLG 00213-23 HLG 00234-23

  • Received 24 June 2023
    Decided 19 July 2023
    Granted
    Request Reference FOI-0263-2023
    Requester Type Business/Interest Group
    Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

    All correspondence relating to the European Commission’s Internal Market infringement case INFR (2007) 4011 titled: RESTRICTIONS ON CONSTRUCTION OF SINGLE DWELLINGS IN PRE-URBAN RURAL AREAS, between the EU Commission and the Heads of Business Units in the Planning Division of The Department, in the period 31/08/2007 - 01/01/2018

  • Received 28 June 2023
    Decided 19 July 2023
    Granted
    Request Reference FOI-0270-2023
    Requester Type Client
    Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

    Any record which is a formal delegation of a function or functions by the head of your body under section 20 of the Freedom of Information Act 2014 and which is currently in force. I am not seeking past / revoked / lapsed instruments of delegation.

  • Received 7 June 2023
    Decided 18 July 2023
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference FOI-0235-2023
    Requester Type Client
    Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

    Requesting all correspondences between The Department and the IDA in relation to issues with The Loughmore Canal and the Raheen Industrial Estate in Limerick in the period 03/01/2022- 02/06/2023

  • Received 4 July 2023
    Decided 18 July 2023
    Granted
    Request Reference FOI-0245-2023
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

    In the period of 01/01/2023 to 01/06/2023, copy of e-Submission made to the Minister and ancillary records attached to them - HLG 00121-23.

  • Received 12 July 2023
    Decided 17 July 2023
    Refused
    Request Reference FOI-0293-2023
    Requester Type Client
    Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

    Records about a meeting in relation to Irish Glass Bottle Site Ringsend that took place on Friday 30/06/2023 between the Department with Dublin City Councillors.

  • Received 14 June 2023
    Decided 14 July 2023
    Refused
    Request Reference FOI-0231-2023
    Requester Type Client
    Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

    Correspondence relating to the number of social and affordable units to be delivered at the Irish Glass Bottle site in Poolbeg between 01/01/2021 - 31/05/2023

  • Received 21 June 2023
    Decided 14 July 2023
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference FOI-0257-2023
    Requester Type Elected-Oireachtas
    Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

    All written correspondence, electronic or otherwise, between The Minister, his appointed advisers and The Department’s officials regarding the proposed “first refusal” policy for renters in the period 01/01/2023 - 01/04/2023

  • Received 24 June 2023
    Decided 14 July 2023
    Granted
    Request Reference FOI-0264-2023
    Requester Type Client
    Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

    1. An un-redacted copy of the Approval of The Minister to Grant Foreshore Licence, document, as listed under Determination. 2. An un-redacted copy of the Appropriate Assessment. Determination Conclusion Statement - Signed, document, as listed under Appropriate Assessment Determination.

  • Received 27 June 2023
    Decided 14 July 2023
    Refused
    Request Reference FOI-0269-2023
    Requester Type Client
    Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

    All documentation related to legal advices used to determine that a foreshore licence was not required for survey works carried out under Marine Notice No: 40 of 2022 and in Marine Notice No: 36 of 2022 issued by the Department of Transport during 2022. This should include all documentation related to legal advices used to determine that a foreshore licence was not required, including regard for the Habitats Directive, Natura 2000 sites, SPAs and SACs in the survey area, and the impact of geo-physical surveys on marine mammals.

  • Received 28 June 2023
    Decided 14 July 2023
    Granted
    Request Reference FOI-0271-2023
    Requester Type Client
    Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

    Any record which lists additional facilities or services recommended or provided in your department / office / body for cyclists since publication of the Government’s Climate Action Plan in 2022.

  • Received 16 June 2023
    Decided 12 July 2023
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference FOI-0242-2023
    Requester Type Client
    Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

    All records relating to Seanad reform held by The Department in the period 01/12/2018 - 12/06/2023

  • Received 13 June 2023
    Decided 11 July 2023
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference FOI-0251-2023
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

    1. Any briefings prepared for The Minister or Secretary General, in relation to allegations of residents seeking financial payments from developments to not take a judicial review/object to planning applications. 2. Any related internal correspondence within The Department related to the above briefing or topic. (I imagine the actual amount of correspondence on this would be small or in a small window, however I am leaving the timeframe a bit broader in case that window is further back than in recent weeks) 3. Any correspondence between developers’/construction firms and The Minister, residents seeking financial payments in the period developments to not take a judicial review/object to planning applications. All 3 in the period 01/01/2023 - 13/06/2023

  • Received 4 July 2023
    Decided 11 July 2023
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference FOI-0287-2023
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

    In the period of 01/01/2023 to 01/06/2023, copy of e-Submission made to the Minister and ancillary records attached to them - HLG 00213-23.

  • Received 5 July 2023
    Decided 11 July 2023
    Refused
    Request Reference FOI-0282-2023
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

    In the period of 01/01/2023 to 01/06/2023, copy of e-Submission made to the Minister and ancillary records attached to them - HLG 00137-23.

  • Received 12 June 2023
    Decided 10 July 2023
    Refused
    Request Reference FOI-0221-2023
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

    A cross sample of representations and correspondence received in The Department containing the word “eviction”. Also a cross sample of representations and correspondence relating to or in response to the above correspondence both in the period 21/03/2023 - 04/04/2023

  • Received 15 June 2023
    Decided 7 July 2023
    Granted
    Request Reference FOI-0253-2023
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

    Records in relation to the Value for Money report (no.25) issued by the Local Government Audit Service, "The oversight role of local authorities in the provision of social housing by Approved Housing Bodies," I am seeking records relating to the governance section of this report.

  • Received 30 May 2023
    Decided 6 July 2023
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference FOI-0229-2023
    Requester Type Client
    Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

    All minutes and documents, including any costings, shared and discussed at meetings between Cork City Council and The Department on the issue of the Cork Event Centre in 2023, including any documents sent/received before or after such meetings.

  • Received 18 May 2023
    Decided 4 July 2023
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference FOI-0211-2023
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

    All records held by The Department in relation to the recently announced decision to waive development contributions, also known as development levies, on residential developments. Records are to include reports, briefing documents minutes of meetings and correspondence on the subject. Requester seeking all such records as were created or received in the period 01/01/2023 - 18/05/2023.

  • Received 13 June 2023
    Decided 4 July 2023
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference FOI-0252-2023
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

    Correspondence, memos and briefings between The Minister or the Secretary General of the Department and the Office of the Planning Regulator’s Chief Executive Niall Cussen in the period 01/11/2022 - 13/06/2023

  • Received 5 May 2023
    Decided 3 July 2023
    Refused
    Request Reference FOI-0204-2023
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

    1. Correspondence (sent and received including any attachments referenced) between the Minister for Justice and The Minister, in the period 01/03/2023 - 04/05/2023. 2. Correspondence (sent and received including any attachments referenced) between the Secretary General of the Department of Justice and the Secretary General of The Department, in the period 01/03/2023 - 04/05/2023

  • Received 8 June 2023
    Decided 3 July 2023
    Granted
    Request Reference FOI-0240-2023
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

    All correspondence between the interim chairperson of An Bord Pleanála, Oonagh Buckley, and The Minister’s Office in the period 06/01/2023 - 07/06/2023.

  • Received 4 May 2023
    Decided 30 June 2023
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference FOI-0189-2023
    Requester Type Client
    Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

    Documents held in the Affordable Housing Capital Funding and Schemes business unit outlining the conditions, status and spending of the €6 million grant mentioned in the "A Vision for Colbert Station Quarter, Limerick" plan produced by the LDA for the construction of 400 homes on 16.2ha of council- owned lands near the Colbert Train station in Limerick in the period 01/12/2021 - 04/05/2023.

  • Received 7 June 2023
    Decided 29 June 2023
    Refused
    Request Reference FOI-0218-2023
    Requester Type Business/Interest Group
    Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

    A copy of the Economic Appraisal of land value sharing measures which was undertaken by INDECON International Research Economists. A copy of the Advice of the Attorney General. A copy of any Reports prepared by or on behalf of or for the benefit of The Minister or The Department in relation to stakeholder engagement in relation to the proposals relating to land value sharing.

  • Received 1 June 2023
    Decided 28 June 2023
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference FOI-0200-2023
    Requester Type Client
    Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

    All records concerning correspondence and advice received by The Minister and the Minister of State’s Office in connection with Carlow Co. Co/ RHS / Cunneen report/Feeney/public issues.

  • Received 13 June 2023
    Decided 28 June 2023
    Refused
    Request Reference FOI-0249-2023
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

    Any correspondence/memos/briefings between The Minister/Secretary General of the Department and Failte Ireland relating to the regulation of short-term lets in the period 01/10/2022 - 13/06/2023.

  • Received 26 May 2023
    Decided 26 June 2023
    Refused
    Request Reference FOI-0219-2023
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

    All reports, records, documentary by the NPWS on badger sets in Parana Properties Ltd at Cornamaddy in Athlone, Co Westmeath which was given to Westmeath County Council between 01/01/2023 and 30/04/2023. Records of concerns sent to the NPWS about badger sets in Parana Properties Ltd at Cornamaddy in Athlone, Co Westmeath given to Westmeath County Council between 01/01/2023 and 30/04/2023.

  • Received 30 May 2023
    Decided 26 June 2023
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference FOI-0227-2023
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

    Copies of any complaints received by Met Eireann in the calendar year 2023 thus far. This is a request for all such complaints, whether they relate to TV/radio broadcasts, the website, or general advisories issued by the meteorology service

  • Received 27 May 2023
    Decided 23 June 2023
    Granted
    Request Reference FOI-0225-2023
    Requester Type Client
    Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

    A letter sent from The Minister to the EU Commission regarding AirBnB and any response that may have issued.

  • Received 3 May 2023
    Decided 22 June 2023
    Refused
    Request Reference FOI-0196-2023
    Requester Type Client
    Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

    All correspondence relating to the European Commission’s Internal Market infringement case INFR (2007) 4011 titled: RESTRICTIONS ON CONSTRUCTION OF SINGLE DWELLINGS IN PRE-URBAN RURAL AREAS, between the EU Commission and the Heads of Business Units in the Planning Division of the Department of Housing, in the period 01/05/2007 - 31/08/2007 and in the period 01/01/2018 - 31/03/2018

  • Received 24 May 2023
    Decided 22 June 2023
    Granted
    Request Reference FOI-0222-2023
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

    Copies of all correspondence to/ between The Minister and the Archbishop of Armagh Eamon Martin. Copies of all correspondence to/ from The Minister and the Irish Catholic Bishops' Conference. The correspondence can be limited to items received/sent in the period 01/10/2021 - 24/5/2023. The records should include copies of any documents attached or enclosed with the correspondence.

  • Received 10 May 2023
    Decided 21 June 2023
    Refused
    Request Reference FOI-0210-2023
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

    Any reports, research, analysis or discussions of the impact of the development levy waiver on increasing the supply of homes and on land values/prices. Any correspondence that mentions the predicted impact of the development levy waiver on increasing the supply of homes and land values/prices in the period 01/01/2022 - 10/05/2023

  • Received 24 May 2023
    Decided 21 June 2023
    Deemed Refused
    Request Reference FOI-0223-2023
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

    Copies of all correspondence to/ from The Minister and the businessman named in the request. The correspondence can be limited to items received/sent in the period 01/01/2023 - 24/5/2023. The records should include copies of any documents attached or enclosed with the correspondence.

  • Received 10 May 2023
    Decided 20 June 2023
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference FOI-0206-2023
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

    Copies of the most recent inspection reports in respect of Ireland's School of Falconry at Ashford Castle, Dromoland Castle, Dave's Jungle in Carlow, and Alcorns Tropical World in Donegal. Copies of the most recent animal censuses or inventories held by the department in respect of Ireland's School of Falconry at Ashford Castle, Dromoland Castle, Dave's Jungle in Carlow, and Alcorns Tropical World in Donegal.

  • Received 22 May 2023
    Decided 20 June 2023
    Refused
    Request Reference FOI-0213-2023
    Requester Type Elected-Oireachtas
    Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

    Copies of all memos prepared for The Minister by officials working in the Rental Market Section in January and February 2023 relating to issues in the private rental sector, notices of termination and/or the ending of the eviction ban

  • Received 7 June 2023
    Decided 20 June 2023
    Refused
    Request Reference FOI-0239-2023
    Requester Type Client
    Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

    Request for all documentation related to a Foreshore Licence granted regarding the foreshore activity referenced in Marine Notice No: 40 of 2022 and in Marine Notice No: 36 of 2022 issued by the Department of Transport during 2022.

  • Received 16 May 2023
    Decided 13 June 2023
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference FOI-0214-2023
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

    Correspondence with the Department of Finance, Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Department of the Taoiseach regarding the issue of retrospection in the funding of apartment defect remediation in the period 18/01/2023 - 16/05/2023

  • Received 17 May 2023
    Decided 13 June 2023
    Refused
    Request Reference FOI-0216-2023
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

    Any briefings or memos prepared for The Minister regarding protests against migrants, refugees, asylum seekers, accommodation for the afore-mentioned groups and/or Direct Provision centres and also seeking minutes or notes taken at meetings attended by The Minister concerning same.

  • Received 22 May 2023
    Decided 9 June 2023
    Refused
    Request Reference FOI-0220-2023
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

    Correspondence between the Assistant Secretary for the Planning Division and the Secretary General in relation to national annual housing targets / national housing need in the period 01/05/2022 - 22/05/2023

  • Received 10 May 2023
    Decided 8 June 2023
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference FOI-0207-2023
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

    A list of e-submissions sent to The Minister through the E-Submissions Channel in the period 01/03/2023 -10/5/2023.

  • Received 15 May 2023
    Decided 8 June 2023
    Refused
    Request Reference FOI-0181-2023
    Requester Type Client
    Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

    Records in relation to the Assistant Secretary for the Planning Division attending the Joint Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage (the “Committee”) with regards to the Planning and Development Bill 2022.

  • Received 17 May 2023
    Decided 8 June 2023
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference FOI-0203-2023
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

    The final e-submission document relating to the following 3 reference numbers that were sent to the Minister for Housing through e-submissions channel in the period 01/12/2022 - 22/4/2023: HLG 00092-23, HLG 00122-23 and HLG 00162-23

  • Received 21 April 2023
    Decided 3 June 2023
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference FOI-0187-2023
    Requester Type Business/Interest Group
    Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

    Records in relation to Galway County Council and Glenman Corporation Limited in the period 06/06/2020 - 31/12/2022.

  • Received 19 April 2023
    Decided 31 May 2023
    Granted
    Request Reference FOI-0184-2023
    Requester Type Elected-Oireachtas
    Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

    Any records, minutes, follow-up notes and reference to the contacts between The Department and an official of Monaghan County Council cited in Parliamentary Question 4691/23.

  • Received 11 May 2023
    Decided 31 May 2023
    Refused
    Request Reference FOI-0209-2023
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

    A copy of all Statement of Interests forms submitted by Department staff of Principal Officer grade and above to the Secretary General, for the year 2022.

  • Received 9 May 2023
    Decided 26 May 2023
    Granted
    Request Reference FOI-0205-2023
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

    All correspondence/briefing materials/notes/minutes relating to a meeting between The Minister and the Banking and Payments Federation Ireland on 02/02/2023.

  • Received 28 April 2023
    Decided 25 May 2023
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference FOI-0190-2023
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

    Correspondence between Minister of State Malcolm Noonan, or The Department Secretary General, and the following organisations- Twitter, TikTok, Facebook and Google in the period 01/01/2023 - 24/04/2023

  • Received 28 April 2023
    Decided 25 May 2023
    Refused
    Request Reference FOI-0198-2023
    Requester Type Client
    Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

    Hard copy letters between The Minister to also include his Private Secretary or Advisors and members of the Mica Action Group in relation to Defective concrete products or Mica/Pyrite/Pyrrhotite in the period 01/08/2019 - 30/09/2020. Not to include records already identified under previous FOI request-(FOI-0129-2023)

  • Received 8 May 2023
    Decided 25 May 2023
    Refused
    Request Reference FOI-0202-2023
    Requester Type Client
    Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

    A copy of all Activities Requiring Consent issued by Minister Malcolm Noonan or his predecessors in the years 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, to Kilkenny County Council to use the Site pictures attached known as Sweeney’s Orchard beside the River Nore a Special Area of Conservation in Kilkenny City for the dumping of the following… * End-of-life street lights both intact and broken that may contain either mercury or sodium, * Old Cement Bags Containing Cement * Rubbish, * Green Waste, * Old Picnic Benches and * Waste in the period Road Construction.

  • Received 21 April 2023
    Decided 19 May 2023
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference FOI-0188-2023
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

    All correspondence between The Minister, and the Secretary General and Oonagh Buckley in the period 01/01/2023- 20/04/2023