Housing
4316 requests
- Received —Decided 10 December 2020RefusedThe Housing Agency (Housing & Sustainable Communities Agency)
Copies of all of the complaints made to the Housing Agency since January 1st, 2020.
- Received 7 December 2020Decided 9 December 2020RefusedDepartment of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
A copy of the research report commissioned by the Department from the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) which claims that Ireland needs new housing supply of 33,000 units a year.
- Received 10 November 2020Decided 8 December 2020GrantedDepartment of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Copy of or link to guidance notes which accompany the “Social Housing Support Household Means Policy".
- Received —Decided 8 December 2020Part-GrantedThe Housing Agency (Housing & Sustainable Communities Agency)
pertaining to the governance of Approved Housing Bodies, from January 1, 2018 to date. complaints from members of the public and public representatives relating to any Approved Housing Body. concerns raised by A) professional bodies, b) other public bodies or agencies, c) government departments relating to governance/regulation issues at Approved Housing Body. executive and/or senior management and the Department of Housing relating to the performance/governance issues at AHB’s from January 1, 2019 to date. the House Agency since January 1, 2019, the authors of each, and the names of AHBs concerned. the Housing Agency since January 1, 2019.
- Received 9 November 2020Decided 7 December 2020Part-GrantedDepartment of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
A copy of all correspondence to and from Minister Darragh O'Brien in relation to the deaths of homeless people since his appointment.
- Received 10 November 2020Decided 7 December 2020RefusedDepartment of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
All submissions and lobbying information received by the Minister's Office and the Secretary General's Office within the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (2017 & 2018), relating to the Public Health (Alcohol) Bill/ Act.
- Received 3 November 2020Decided 4 December 2020Part-GrantedDepartment of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Correspondence within the Department of Housing regarding the co-living report between 27/06/2020 and 03/11/2020.
- Received —Decided 3 December 2020Cavan County Council
Homeless statistics
- Received 3 November 2020Decided 1 December 2020RefusedDepartment of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Correspondence between Minister Darragh O'Brien and Secretary General Graham Doyle, on the optics of housing delivery, affordable housing, or homelessness, between 01/08/2020 and 03/11/2020.
- Received —Decided 1 December 2020RefusedThe Housing Agency (Housing & Sustainable Communities Agency)
A list of Approved Housing Bodies that submitted engagement regulatory returns to date. Copies of Engagement Regulatory Returns submitted by approved housing bodies since January 1 2018 to date.
- Received 3 November 2020Decided 30 November 2020GrantedDepartment of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Copy of the following ministerial submission - Summary of Social Housing Assessment 2020.
- Received 5 November 2020Decided 30 November 2020Clare County Council
All information on record, either written or computerised including all correspondence and minutes of meetings between Callinan and Walsh and any Other construction company and Clare County Council with regards to the proposed purchase and development of the Shanballa Site. I would like to request all information on record, either written or computerised and all correspondence and minutes of meetings between Clare County Council and Department of Housing/Housing Agency/Housing Finance Agency and Land Development Agency relating to the purchase/development of the site/units to be developed or existing properties within the Shanballa estate or Loughvella, Lahinch Road Area. I would also like to request any correspondence regarding the number of units proposed to be used for social and/or affordable housing within the Shanballa estate or Loughvella, Lahinch Road area.
- Received 6 November 2020Decided 30 November 2020Clare County Council
Records in relation to Council inspections of private rented properties (PRP) in 2019 and Jan to Sept 2020 (or more recent data) relating to the following: 1. How many PRPs were inspected by the council? How many were deemed non- compliant with the housing regulations? The most common reasons for non- compliance? 2. The number of improvement notices issued? The number of prohibition notices issued? How many were prosecuted? 3. Does the council follow any standard for overcrowding in PRP. Does it inspect for overcrowding? How many were inspected for overcrowding? 4. How many were inspected because of concerns about the spread of coronavirus? How many were deemed to be a potential virus hazard? 5. How many PRPs were inspected proactively - ie NOT arising from concerns raised with the council. 6. The number of properties inspected as a proportion registered tenancies.
- Received 3 November 2020Decided 27 November 2020RefusedDepartment of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Correspondence with Tuath Housing Association regarding the design of 46 homes being built on Racecourse Meadows, Dundalk.
- Received 16 November 2020Decided 25 November 2020WithdrawnLouth County Council
Specifically for an update on the numbers of persons with a disability currently on the housing waiting list broken down as per the table in the 2016 Housing strategy in Paragraph 4.1.8 Total disability need.
- Received 23 November 2020Decided 24 November 2020Handled outside of FOICork City Council
No’s of Homeless in emergency accommodation and Costs
- Received —Decided 23 November 2020Part-GrantedLimerick City and County Council
1. The number of applicants with a disability on the housing list and the waiting periods for allocation in all areas and towns of Limerick under the following categories: Physical, Sensory, Mental Health, Intellectual. 2. The number of disability housing supports in LCCC currently provided under allocations and under HAP. 3. The number of adaptations carried out to existing stock and the number of applications for adaptations to both social and privately owned residential dwellings. The number of physically accessible units per developments under direct construction within all the major areas and towns of Limerick. 5. The number of physically accessible units per developments under construction through Approved Housing Bodies in all the major areas and towns of Limerick
- Received —Decided 23 November 2020Cavan County Council
Housing Statistics for Homeless
- Received 23 October 2020Decided 20 November 2020Clare County Council
All information on record, either written or computerised between Clare County Council and Department of Housing relating to Shanballa Estate, Lahinch Road, Ennis, County Clare including minutes of all meetings between Clare County Council/Callanan & Walsh Construction Ltd or any Other prospective developer and Department of Housing regarding any submissions or requests for funding to purchase sites/houses/apartments or any Other type of dwellings in the estate mentioned above. The address of the area may also be known as Loughvella, Lahinch Road, Ennis, County Clare.
- Received 28 October 2020Decided 20 November 2020Part-GrantedAn Coimisiún Pleanála
1. The number of judicial reviews currently been taken against An Bord Pleanála in relation to the SHD process. 2. Any correspondence between An Bord Pleanála and the Department of Housing in relation to concerns that the SHD process is in breach of the Aarhus Convention (Articles (9)(2) and (3)) with regard to guaranteed access to justice at which cost isn't prohibitive. 3. Any correspondence with the Department of Housing, Minister for Housing and/or officials in relation to the number of judicial reviews
- Received 19 October 2020Decided 17 November 2020Part-GrantedDepartment of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
All correspondence/minutes of meetings between the Minster for Housing / Secretary General of the Department of Housing and the Residential Tenancies Board (RTB) between 01/6/2020 and 19/10/2020.
- Received —Decided 16 November 2020Cavan County Council
E Tenders for Housing Development
- Received —Decided 13 November 2020Cavan County Council
Social Housing Statistics
- Received 8 October 2020Decided 6 November 2020GrantedDonegal County Council
Housing File
- Received 9 October 2020Decided 6 November 2020RefusedDonegal County Council
Area housing records/minutes Co. Meetings/ Ethics register Private Rented Dwellings
- Received 5 October 2020Decided 2 November 2020Clare County Council
All records in relation to any discussions held between Clare County Council and AHBS, private developers and your own Housing Department with a view to initiating the processess that will result in rapid development of housing since the approval of LIHAF funding for the Claureen Link Road
- Received 2 October 2020Decided 30 October 2020GrantedDonegal County Council
Rent Arrears
- Received 28 September 2020Decided 28 October 2020Part-GrantedDepartment of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Correspondence between the Minister and the chief executive/head of the Housing Agency, Housing Finance Agency, Irish Water, An Bord Pleanala, LDA, or RTB during the period 01/07/2020 and 28/09/2020.
- Received 9 October 2020Decided 16 October 2020TransferredDepartment of Climate, Energy and the Environment
With reference And to confirm Consumer Credit Act 1995 a mortgage lender means “mortgage lender” means— (a) a credit institution making housing loans, or (b) any other person of a class prescribed after consultation with the Minister for the Environment, for the purposes of the Act; Can you forward this information to me with reference to a company called IIB Homeloans Ltd. please a Ltd. company operating in Ireland as a mortgage lender can you as the current Minister for the Environment for the purposes of the Act forward under (b) above your Departments acknowledging this fact for the purposes of this Act.
- Received 16 September 2020Decided 14 October 2020Part-GrantedDepartment of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
All minutes, notes and related documents of the weekly homeless taskforce convened by Minister Darragh O'Brien between 01/07/2020 and 16/09/2020.
- Received 16 September 2020Decided 13 October 2020GrantedMeath County Council
Seeks records re properties registered under the housing assistance program in Ledwidge Hall including apartment block A and block B in Ledwidge Hall Estate, Slane.
- Received 14 September 2020Decided 12 October 2020GrantedDonegal County Council
Housing issue
- Received 11 September 2020Decided 8 October 2020Clare County Council
Various details in relation of Carraig Midhe housing estate - query re planning permission, enforcement, taken in charge & works carried out
- Received 9 September 2020Decided 7 October 2020Part-GrantedDonegal County Council
Copy of Housing file
- Received —Decided 7 October 2020RefusedThe Housing Agency (Housing & Sustainable Communities Agency)
Urgent request regarding a proposal that has been submitted by Ardstone Homes to Kildare County Council. The proposal in question is a Enhanced Long Term Social Housing Leasing Scheme for the development at 'Toberton Wood' in Johnstown, Co. Kildare.
- Received 27 August 2020Decided 28 September 2020Part-GrantedDepartment of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Documents 151-297 of the study into construction costs in the housing sector undertaken by the Department.
- Received 26 August 2020Decided 23 September 2020GrantedDepartment of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Correspondence and minutes of any meetings of the Department's group of delivery partners for social housing, regarding the supply of social and affordable housing and plans to increase it.
- Received 28 July 2020Decided 22 September 2020Part-GrantedFingal County Council
Information in relation to demographic make up of social housing stock currently in use
- Received —Decided 22 September 2020RefusedThe Housing Agency (Housing & Sustainable Communities Agency)
1. Copies of all Regulatory Assessment Reports for AHBs dating from January 1 2018 to date and held by the Housing Agency. 2. Copies of records held by the Housing Agency of complaints pertaining to the governance of Approved Housing Bodies, from January 1, 2018 to date. 3. Copies of all records held by the Housing Agency relating to complaints from members of the public or professionals relating to any Approved Housing Body 4. Correspondence between the Housing Agency’s chief executive and senior management and the Department of Housing and/or the Minister for Housing that relates to the performance of AHB’s from January 1 2020 to date. 5. Correspondence between the Housing Agency’s chief executive and/or senior management and the Department of Housing relating to the performance/governance issues at AHB’s from January 1 2020 to date. 6. A list of all external reviews/reports on AHB’s commissioned by the House Agency since January 1, 2019, the authors of each, and the names of AHBs concerned. 7. Copies of external reviews/reports of AHBs commissioned by the Housing Agency since January 1 2019.
- Received 27 August 2020Decided 21 September 2020Part-GrantedAn Coimisiún Pleanála
A spreadsheet/database/records of legal costs incurred by An Bord Pleanála for each of the following years 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020. If possible, I would like this figure broken down into two categories: costs related to planning applications under the strategic housing development act, and all other legal costs.
- Received 6 August 2020Decided 18 September 2020Part-GrantedDepartment of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Correspondence regarding access to homeless services and the provision of homeless services to Roma and Romanian nationals, in the period 01/07/2020 to 06/08/2020.
- Received 19 August 2020Decided 16 September 2020GrantedDepartment of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Records regarding the inclusion of the Claureen Link Road for funding under the Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (LIHAF).
- Received 20 August 2020Decided 16 September 2020Part-GrantedMayo County Council
Correspondence between Kiltimagh IRD and Mayo County Council re. land and housing acquisitions, objectives and proposals between 02/01/2017 and 12/03/2019.
- Received —Decided 9 September 2020RefusedThe Housing Agency (Housing & Sustainable Communities Agency)
A complete list of the Approved Housing Bodies that have not signed up to the voluntary regulation code between January 1 2018 to date. Copies of records held by the Housing Agency that pertain to complaints or concerns relating to Approved Housing Bodies, from January 1 2018 to date.
- Received —Decided 9 September 2020RefusedThe Housing Agency (Housing & Sustainable Communities Agency)
1. Copies of internal audits of approved housing bodies conducted from January 1 2017 and commissioned or in the possession of the Housing Association. 2. Copies of records, electronic and otherwise of complaints or concerns relating to approved housing bodies held by the Housing Association, since January 1 2017 to date. 3. Records in the Housing Association relating to the financing and activity and oversight of approved housing bodies, from January 1, 2017.
- Received 10 August 2020Decided 4 September 2020RefusedLouth County Council
Willow Brook Estate - copies of Housing Progress Reports, Taking in Charge Reports and Infrastructure, from 2007 to present.
- Received —Decided 3 September 2020GrantedThe Housing Agency (Housing & Sustainable Communities Agency)
The number of properties sourced by the Housing Agency since 2010 that were suitable for the Housing First Programme, in what year and county they were sourced
- Received 3 August 2020Decided 31 August 2020RefusedDepartment of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Records relating to the Working Group established to review Sustainable Rural Housing Guidelines for Planning Authorities (2005) in light of the “Flemish Decree”, in the period 01/05/2017 to 01/08/2020.
- Received 30 July 2020Decided 28 August 2020RefusedDepartment of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Correspondence between the Peter McVerry Trust and the Department regarding policy measures to tackle homelessness and the lack of housing for single people, in the period 01/03/2020 to 30/07/2020.
- Received 29 July 2020Decided 27 August 2020GrantedLouth County Council
The number of sites that have been on the register since 1998. The number and amount of fines issued since 1998. The number and amount of fines actually collected since 1998. The current register of derelict sites for Louth County Council.. If it would make life easier, the previous derelict site returns from Louth County Council to the department of housing would suffice.