Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
FOI Requests — 4,174 records (page 78 of 84)
- Received 18 December 2023Decided —Part-GrantedDepartment of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
In the period of 25/09/2023 and 09/10/2023; Request for a copy of eSubmissions prepared for The Minister by Housing Policy, Governance and Legislation, and Housing Affordability, Inclusion and Homelessness Divisions. 477-23- Cost Rental Designation of 34 Homes at Twenties Lane, Drogheda, Co. Louth 541-23- FHS Side Agreement and Shareholder Resolution September 2023 559-23- Scheme of Priority - Kilkenny County Council
- Received 14 December 2023Decided —RefusedDepartment of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
In the period of 07/12/2011 to 31/12/2014 and 26/03/2023 to 24/11/2023; Request for any emails, memos, letters or submissions and their attachments where relevant between: 1. officials in The Department and the Principal Officer in the Rental Market Section regarding Capital Gains Tax Relief for properties acquired. 2. the Principal Officer in the Rental Market Section in The Department and The Minister regarding Capital Gains Tax Relief for properties acquired 3. the Principal Officer in the Rental Market Section in The Department and officials in The Department of Finance, at the level of Principal Officer and above regarding Capital Gains Tax Relief for properties acquired.
- Received 10 November 2025Decided —GrantedDepartment of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Request for all records held by the National Monuments Service (NMS) relating to the following Eco plan Forestry applications below: CN89444 - CN88472 - CN95676 - TFL00875422 - TFL00853122 - TFL00848422
- Received 19 November 2025Decided —GrantedDepartment of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Request for the number of Deer Hunting licences currently held in Co. Kerry for the years 2024, 2023, 2022. Also request for the number of New Deer Hunting licences issued in Ireland and Co. Kerry specifically, in 2025
- Received 17 July 2025Decided —Part-GrantedDepartment of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Request for copies of correspondence received by the minister in the month of May 2025 from members of the public who reference they are currently homeless or living in emergency accommodation or a hotel.
- Received 12 January 2024Decided —GrantedDepartment of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Request for all records relating to the meetings held between The Minister, his Assistant Secretary and Special Advisor with the Irish Institutional Property. see link below www.lobbying.ie/return/103190/irish-institutional-property These records should include, but is not limited to, meeting minutes, meeting notes, a list of attendees, briefing material, associated reports, presentations and correspondence shared and/or referenced at these meetings. Any letters, emails, text messages, WhatsApp messages, memos, notes, reports, draft reports and any other relevant records that were created, sent or received before, during or after these meetings. Please also include the following submissions to The Minister, including the letter and research report attached to the emails, and any response given by The Minister see both links below…
- Received 23 November 2023Decided —RefusedDepartment of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
1. Request for Internal records/correspondence related to the purchase of Devenish Farm, as described in this article: 2. Correspondence with other state bodies/government departments regarding same 3. Correspondence with external parties.
- Received 21 December 2023Decided —Part-GrantedDepartment of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
In the period of 20/09/2023 to20/10/2023 - Request for copies of 1. Correspondence between the DRHE and The Department of Housing at PO level and above on the issue of data errors in the monthly homeless figures. 2. Also, Internal correspondence at PO level and above in The Department related to issue of data errors in the monthly homeless figures.
- Received 14 August 2025Decided —RefusedDepartment of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
RE: Cost of 2024 Local Elections: Request for the following records: - Guides published and translated into languages other than English, funded by the department To produce and disseminate the guides Providing translation services for non-Irish nationals (apart from any record of local authority expenditure).
- Received 18 July 2025Decided —GrantedDepartment of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Request the following records: 1. The total amount spent on consultancy services by the department in the years 2024 and 2025 to 18/07/2025. 2. A breakdown of all consultancy projects commissioned in 2024 and 2025, including Please confirm whether external consultants engaged with the department in the drafting, development or review of the "Design Standards for Apartments, Guidelines for Planning Authorities (2025)". If so, please provide:
- Received 16 July 2024Decided —GrantedDepartment of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
In the period of 01/01/2024 to 15/07/2024, request for all correspondence between Secretary General, and Secretary General at the Department of Public Expenditure NDP Delivery and Reform (DPER).
- Received 14 February 2024Decided —RefusedDepartment of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Request for a copy of the financial plan submitted by a registered charity (under the terms of the bailout).
- Received 14 February 2024Decided —RefusedDepartment of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Request as to whether The Department has received any financial plan from a registered charity on the organisations future?
- Received 12 February 2024Decided —Part-GrantedDepartment of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
In the period of 01/01/2023 to 12/02/2024 - Request for any Correspondence between The Department and An Bord Pleanala regarding permission to employ additional staff either replacement or new posts within ABP Note: relating to new staff at the grade of Administrative Officer and above or equivalent
- Received 10 January 2024Decided —Part-GrantedDepartment of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
In the period of 06/12/2023 to 10/01/2024, Regarding the holding of Yulefest Event Fireworks Over the River Nore in County Kilkenny; Request for all information including: ARC Application forms. All communications. Meeting notes, emails and letters from Yulefest Organisers/Kilkenny County Council. All consent issues to Kilkenny County Council/Yulefest to hold a fireworks display over the special area of conservation. All emails/letters created by Kilkenny County Council staff in their investigation of the proposed fireworks display over the river Nore. All responses. Emails, letters, text messages, What’s App messages from Yulefest organisers and the staff of Kilkenny County Council to The Department and the National Parks and Wildlife Service All responses to the ongoing litter issues created by this fireworks event.
- Received 18 December 2023Decided —RefusedDepartment of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Request for a copy of eSubmission prepared for The Minister by Housing Policy, Governance and Legislation, and Housing Affordability, Inclusion and Homelessness Divisions between 25/09/2023 and 09/10/2023 557-23 - A Review of the Future of the Rental Accommodation
- Received 12 July 2024Decided —RefusedDepartment of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
A copy of all correspondence between former Attorney General and the Minister dealing with the Defective Concrete Block scheme during September 2021 including the Ministers letter to Mr Gallagher of 02/09/2021.
- Received 27 June 2024Decided —Part-GrantedDepartment of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
1. Request for all draft non-finalised versions of the Broadscale and Finescale aerial reports for ObServe II 2. Request for any data collected as a result of observations resultant of the carrying out of the ObSERVE II study, for example, but not limited to: high resolution images, Generalized Additive Model (GAM) images, density distributions not included in the reports, geoTiffs, shapefiles, etc. 3. Request for the latest iteration of the GIS data collected as a result of observations resultant of the carrying out of the ObSERVE II study.
- Received 12 February 2025Decided —Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
In the period of 01/01/2021 to 01/01/2024: Request for Internal and external correspondence, 1. Concerning the use of Hikvision cameras used within government owned and used buildings 2. Of security, advice received surrounding Chinese made CCTV equipment, including Hikvision cameras.
- Received 4 March 2025Decided —Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Request for copies of any analyses or reports that look at the impact of the development levies waiver on construction. In addition, any papers or reports that look at whether to extend the development levies waiver.
- Received 11 February 2025Decided —Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Request for access to any record which shows total expenditure in the department between 01/01/2024 to 11/02/2025 on ID cards, lanyards, card holders, card printers or any software used for producing ID cards
- Received 21 November 2025Decided —RefusedDepartment of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Records in relation to elephants in Dublin Zoo.
- Received 11 November 2024Decided —GrantedDepartment of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Correspondence may relate to the Housing Agency considering pyrrhotite in its determinations under the scheme, IS 465, and the National Standards Authority of Ireland’s revisions of IS 465. In the period of 01/03/2024 to 11/11/2024: Request for copies of: A record of correspondence between Engineers Ireland and the Minister’s office regarding the Enhanced Defective Concrete Blocks Grant Scheme. A record of correspondence between Engineers Ireland and the department’s Assistant Secretary Aine Stapleton regarding the Enhanced Defective Concrete Blocks Grant Scheme.
- Received 22 July 2025Decided —Part-GrantedDepartment of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
In the period of 01/01/2023 to 21/07/2025: RE: List of individuals below: Request for the following records:
- Received 14 August 2024Decided —Part-GrantedDepartment of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
In the period of 13/07/2024 to 14/08/2024: Request for copies of all correspondence between the Mayor of Limerick, and the Minister/the department.
- Received 10 February 2025Decided —Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Request for memos or official reports between 01/07/2024 to 01/12/2024 outlining the expected number of housing completions for 2024.
- Received 6 February 2025Decided —Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Request for all National Parks and Wildlife Service reports of hare coursing meetings monitored by conservation rangers/officials for the 2024/2025 season, PRIOR to said reports made available to the hare coursers (ICC) before publication on the National Parks and Wildlife Service website.
- Received 6 November 2024Decided —Part-GrantedDepartment of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Request for all correspondence including e-mails, WhatsApp messages, memos and other documents between the Minister, his advisers and officials in the department a
- Received 7 August 2025Decided —RefusedDepartment of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Please find below a request for the following e-Submissions -050-25 Recovery of Exceptional Funding provided to the Peter McVerry Trust
- Received 16 May 2025Decided —Part-GrantedDepartment of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
In the period of 01/01/2025 to 16/05/2025: Request for a copy of correspondence between the department and the following departments RE: Proposals for the creation of a strategic Housing Activation Office: the Department of Public Expenditure, the Department of Finance, the Department of the Taoiseach. Correspondence from officials of assistant secretary grade or above
- Received 16 May 2025Decided —Part-GrantedDepartment of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Request for records RE: Potential move to the Housing Activation Office for the Chief Executive of National Asset Management Agency. To include letters, emails, memos, text messages and WhatsApp messages at principal officer level and above
- Received 9 June 2025Decided —RefusedDepartment of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Request sought for whereabouts of chimpanzees; African dogs; post mortems of Asian and African elephants and minuted decision to continue or not Asian elephant breeding: Minuted decision of Covid funds to zoo from government (minister Malcolm Noonan 2020 onwards). The animal records enquired after (bar African elephants which are hi-vis 1989/1990 in media) in last 24 months should all be backed up by licences, Zoo Licence Act, National Parks and Wildlife Services, CITES Permit System.
- Received 9 May 2025Decided —Part-GrantedDepartment of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
In the period of 01/02/2025 to 09/05/2025: Request for correspondence to and from the minister in relation to the Housing Activation Office from other ministers or politicians, state agencies, businesses and within the department from secretary general level and above. Excluding anything to and from members of the public.
- Received 5 November 2024Decided —RefusedDepartment of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
1. Internal guidelines that were in place in your body on 01/01/ 2024 regarding approval or authorisation of personal expenditure (expenditure on goods or services provided directly to the individual) by the Secretary General or Accounting Officer. 2. Internal guidelines in place on 31/10/2024 regarding the same matter. 3. Any instruction issued since 25/10/2024 to review expenditure approval processes for staff at any grade. 4. The outcome of any such review. 5. A list of all expenditure which was approved solely by a person at Secretary General, Deputy Secretary General or Assistant Secretary General level in 2023 or 2024.
- Received 6 August 2024Decided —Part-GrantedDepartment of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
All credit card statements for December 2023, January 2024, and June 2024. All bank account statements for December 2023, January 2024, and June 2024.
- Received 9 June 2025Decided —RefusedDepartment of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
RE: National Planning Framework the Cork Transport Strategy 2040. This document promises that work will be undertaken to "evaluate the potential of a Bus Rapid Transit or Light Rail corridor to serve the increased population growth” https://www.nationaltransport.ie/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Cork- Metropolitan-Area-Transport-Strategy-CMATS-2040.pdf Request for Documentation, reports, correspondence, or records relating to feasibility studies, appraisals, assessments, or evaluations undertaken to compare or assess the suitability of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) and Light Rail Transit (LRT) options for the Cork Metropolitan Area. Specific details on the initiation and completion dates of each study or evaluation related to these options.
- Received 10 June 2025Decided —GrantedDepartment of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
In the period of 01/01/2025 to 30/04/2025: Request for correspondence between Cairn Homes and of Minister John Cummins’ office in relation to the meeting referenced on the Lobbying Register - https://www.lobbying.ie/return/125442/cairn-homes-plc
- Received 28 October 2025Decided —Part-GrantedDepartment of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Request for records, correspondence, inspection reports, and veterinary assessments relating to the welfare and or health of the Chimpanzees Austin and Bossou, at Dublin Zoo, from their arrival or birth at Dublin Zoo to 28/10/2025.
- Received 7 August 2024Decided —RefusedDepartment of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Reports and correspondence resulting from the fraud noted in 2022 Your Fraud register
- Received 9 June 2025Decided —GrantedDepartment of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
In the period of 05/07/2024 to 09/06/2025: Request for correspondence between both former and current housing minister to the UK Secretary of State for Housing. Search to include emails, SMS, letters, and memos.
- Received 11 June 2025Decided —Part-GrantedDepartment of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
In the period of 01/01/2025 to 11/06/2025: Request for records of correspondence, reports and memos, meetings and meeting notes between department officials (at assistant secretary general level and above, including ministers) and Permanent TSB on matters relating to residential development in Ireland, mortgage and business landing and associated policies and schemes.
- Received 10 June 2025Decided —GrantedDepartment of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
In the period of 01/01/2025 to 30/04/2025: Request for correspondence between Cairn Homes and the office of the minister in relation to the meeting referenced on the Lobbying Register https://www.lobbying.ie/return/125442/cairn-homes-plc
- Received 3 November 2025Decided —Part-GrantedDepartment of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
In the period from 01/10/2025 to 31/10/2025.Request for a list of e- Submissions submitted to the Minister through the e-submissions channel.
- Received 4 November 2025Decided —GrantedDepartment of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
In the period of 01/05/2025 to 04/11/2025: RE: The news that the Minister has brought plans to allow the private sector to develop wastewater treatment infrastructure, request for access to the following records: - • Any internal briefings prepared for the Minister • Any communications between the Minister and Uisce Eireann.
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copies of the
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