Housing
4316 requests
- Received 23 April 2025Decided 9 May 2025GrantedGalway City Council
Data on 2024 and 2025 (to date) social housing waiting lists in Galway City, broken down by waiting time and family size.
- Received 17 April 2025Decided 8 May 2025GrantedDonegal County Council
Records in relation to Housing transfer list and allocation data, Killybegs, Bruckless, Donegal Town
- Received 17 April 2025Decided 8 May 2025GrantedDonegal County Council
Records in relation to numbers on social housing applications from all non- Irish national categories
- Received 28 April 2025Decided 8 May 2025RefusedCork City Council
Affidavits attached to housing files
- Received —Decided 8 May 2025GrantedLouth County Council
NON-IRISH HOUSING APPLICATIONS
- Received 25 April 2025Decided 7 May 2025GrantedDonegal County Council
Records in relation to Stats in relation to housing stock of DCC and vacant properties
- Received 17 April 2025Decided 7 May 2025Handled outside of FOIGalway City Council
The number of social housing applications made to the local authority from all non-Irish national categories (e.g. UK national, EEA-national, non-EEA national, etc.) outlined in the Department Circular Housing 41/2012. The number of social housing applications accepted by the local authority from all non-Irish national categories (e.g. UK national, EEA-national, non-EEA national, etc.) outlined in the Department Circular Housing 41/2012. The number of social housing applications ultimately allocated social housing by the local authority from all non-Irish national categories (e.g. UK national, EEA-national, non-EEA national, etc.) outlined in the Department Circular Housing 41/2012. The number of social housing support applications made to the local authority from all non-Irish national categories (e.g. UK national, EEA-national, non-EEA national, etc.) outlined in the Department Circular Housing 41/2012. I would like to receive electronic copies of whichever records contain this information, whether they be pre-existing or newly created from pre-existing records as per Section 17(4) of the Act. I am interested in documentation dating from January 1, 2013 to present.
- Received 17 April 2025Decided 7 May 2025GrantedLongford County Council
Housing Statistics
- Received 29 April 2025Decided 6 May 2025Handled outside of FOIGalway City Council
My Constituent desires a list of the currently available social housing in possession of the Galway City Council.
- Received 17 April 2025Decided 6 May 2025Handled outside of FOIMayo County Council
The number of social housing allocations made, accepted, allocated and support applications made to the local authority from all non-Irish national categories (e.g. UK national, EEA-national, non-EEA national, etc) outlined the Department Circular Housing 41/2012
- Received 23 April 2025Decided 29 April 2025RefusedCork City Council
Social housing waiting time
- Received 21 March 2025Decided 25 April 2025GrantedDonegal County Council
Records in relation to the number of houses/apartments owned by DCC which are vacant, no. on housing waiting list, no of HAP recipients, no of RAS recipients etc
- Received 23 April 2025Decided 25 April 2025Handled outside of FOIMayo County Council
Looking for the number of council owned homes currently vacant in 6 monthly intervals in tabular form. Requesting the amount provided for in your budget 2025 expenditure list for housing maintenance and the amount of this for proactive, non-emergency maintenance. The number of social homes owned by your local authority for which you hold maintenance responsibility (i.e exclusive of AHB managed properties), the number of maintenance requests received in 2024.
- Received 13 March 2025Decided 25 April 2025RefusedThe Housing Agency (Housing & Sustainable Communities Agency)
Records in relation to the training and other services received by the Housing Agency from Advantage-Protrain, from 2023 to present.
- Received 21 March 2025Decided 24 April 2025GrantedGalway County Council
Request relating to numbers on the housing waiting list, in receipt of HAP & availing of RAS
- Received 8 April 2025Decided 23 April 2025GrantedDun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council
Affordable Housing Scheme
- Received 17 April 2025Decided 23 April 2025GrantedDun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council
Social Housing Figures
- Received 24 March 2025Decided 17 April 2025RefusedCork City Council
Records of Children with autism on social housing list
- Received 21 March 2025Decided 17 April 2025GrantedMeath County Council
Seeks records re Housing matters
- Received —Decided 17 April 2025Cavan County Council
Social Housing Applications
- Received 29 March 2025Decided 15 April 2025Part-GrantedCork City Council
Records re meeting with Tuath housing Nov 2024
- Received 21 March 2025Decided 14 April 2025Part-GrantedMeath County Council
Seeks records re Housing matter
- Received —Decided 14 April 2025GrantedLouth County Council
LA HOUSING STATISTICS
- Received 10 March 2025Decided 7 April 2025Part-GrantedDun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council
Shanganagh Castle Housing
- Received 11 March 2025Decided 7 April 2025RefusedThe Housing Agency (Housing & Sustainable Communities Agency)
1. A list of any external communicationa or PR services acquired by the Housing Agency in the last 24 months. 2. All records - correspondence, briefs, presentations etc - related to any crisis comms services received by the department in that period.
- Received 10 March 2025Decided 4 April 2025RefusedCork City Council
Records re the eligibility criteria for the provision homeless supports (emergency accommodation)
- Received 10 March 2025Decided 4 April 2025Part-GrantedCork City Council
Protocol for Homeless Presentations
- Received 10 March 2025Decided 2 April 2025GrantedGalway County Council
Request relating to a housing development in County Galway.
- Received 14 February 2025Decided 2 April 2025GrantedDepartment of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
RE: Housing Completion Figures for 2024 between 01/06/2024 and 23/01/2025 Request for: - All information (including memos, briefing notes, correspondence with officials etc.) provided to former Minister. Correspondence between the former Minister (including his office and advisers) with Simon Harris and Micheál Martin (including their offices and advisers) Correspondence to include emails, text messages, WhatsApp messages, memos briefing notes etc.
- Received 3 March 2025Decided 1 April 2025Part-GrantedCharities Regulator
Under section 12 of the FOI Act I request a copy of all annual financial accounts and annual reports submitted by South East Animal Rescue (RCN:20082390) between the 01/01/2019 – 01/01/2022. In addition to this I request all correspondence between the South East Animal Rescue and the Charities Regulator regarding fundraising activities, cash donated, expenditures, outgoings, rent and go fund me activities.
- Received 5 March 2025Decided 1 April 2025RefusedDepartment of Climate, Energy and the Environment
1. Any briefing papers or reports to Eamon Ryan, then Minister for the environment, on the housing output projections of the Central Bank of Ireland in its quarterly bulletin of September 18th, 2024; and minutes of any meetings on that topic. This request covers the period around the publication of the Central Bank report and subsequent periods until the end of his mandate as Minister on January 23rd, 2025 2. Any other briefing papers, reports or analyses of housing output projections for Mr Ryan in the period between September 18th, 2024, and January 23rd, 2025.
- Received 21 March 2025Decided 28 March 2025GrantedGalway City Council
The number of houses / apartments currently owned by your local authority which are vacant. The number of individuals currently on the housing waiting list. The total number of people currently in receipt of HAP. The total number of people currently availing of RAS. The total number of houses owned by your local authority. The total number of persons in emergency homeless accommodation provided or paid for by your local authority.
- Received —Decided 27 March 2025Part-GrantedDepartment of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Communications between senior officials and ministers of this department and the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth relating to housing of Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection (BOTPs) in student accommodation.
- Received 26 February 2025Decided 26 March 2025Part-GrantedClare County Council
a copy of the allocated housing budget granted to your Local Authority Area for 1: social housing, whether rental, purchase or through third party (ie HAP) and 2: funding for traveller specific accommodation, from 2020 to 2024. I also request the totals of the amount that was spent on 1: social housing, in all its forms. And 2: the total spent on traveller specific accommodation from 2020-2024. **CLARIFICATION** the total amount allocated to your local authority from the dept of housing and the amount spent
- Received 25 February 2025Decided 25 March 2025Part-GrantedLongford County Council
Housing Budgets
- Received 21 March 2025Decided 25 March 2025Handled outside of FOIMayo County Council
Records of vacant houses/apartments owned by MCC, number of people on the housing list, number of people currently in receipt of HAP and RAS, number of people in emergency accommodation
- Received —Decided 25 March 2025Part-GrantedLouth County Council
HOUSING BUDGET EXPENDITURE
- Received 20 February 2025Decided 24 March 2025GrantedGalway City Council
• A copy of your ArƟcle 30 record of processing acƟviƟes for your housing department. • A copy of your ArƟcle 30 record of processing acƟviƟes for your data protecƟon office/department. Article 30 of the GDPR places an obligation on controllers and processors to have in place within their organisations a detailed record which accurately identifies the activities the organisation carries out which use personal data. Where such is not complete or in progress or does not exist, I request records that indicate the progress of such (plans for progression) and (records which demonstrate/confirm/)confirmation that such has been included on an appropriate risk register for your organisation.
- Received 25 February 2025Decided 24 March 2025RefusedGalway City Council
I request a copy of the allocated housing budget granted to your Local Authority Area for 1: social housing, whether rental, purchase or through third party (ie HAP) and 2: funding for traveller specific accommodation, from 2020 to 2024. I also request the totals of the amount that was spent on 1: social housing, in all its forms. And 2: the total spent on traveller specific accommodation from 2020-2024. Refinement/Clarification: 06/03/2025 Request relates to capital & acquisitions, money allocated to GCC for this, and money spent – (so not total social housing spend).
- Received 24 February 2025Decided 24 March 2025Part-GrantedLongford County Council
Local Authority Housing
- Received 20 February 2025Decided 24 March 2025GrantedMayo County Council
Copy of Article 30 record of processing activities for MCC Housing Department and Data Protection Office
- Received 20 February 2025Decided 21 March 2025GrantedGalway County Council
Request for GDPR Article 30 Record of Processing Activities for Housing & Data Protection Office
- Received 25 February 2025Decided 21 March 2025GrantedDepartment of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
In the period of 01/09/2024 to 31/01/2025: Request for memos and reports sent to the Minister and Secretary General about housing completions.
- Received —Decided 21 March 2025Cavan County Council
Homeless Statistics
- Received 20 February 2025Decided 20 March 2025RefusedDepartment of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
In the period of 01/08/2024 to 20/02/2025: Request for records solely related to Rent Pressure Zones (RPZs) and associated rent caps: - 1. Correspondence, emails, letters, briefing notes, and internal memos between Rental Market business unit and the Minister’s Office and the following entities only, limited to the issue or policy of RPZs and rent caps: 2. Records of meetings (including agendas, minutes, briefing notes, and attendee lists) between the Department and the above entities, limited to discussions concerning RPZs and rent caps. 3. Any internal policy papers, reports, or impact assessments prepared by or for the Department in result of engagement with these entities on RPZs and rent caps.
- Received —Decided 13 March 2025GrantedDepartment of the Taoiseach
Correspondence sent from members of the public to the Taoiseach in relation to Rent Pressure Zones, rent caps and rents. Timeline: Saturday February 8 - 13 2025.
- Received 18 February 2025Decided 13 March 2025Part-GrantedDepartment of Children, Disability and Equality
1) Briefing notes, emails, meetings' minutes involving, to or CCing the Minister at the time on the impact of the Accommodation Recognition Payment on local housing markets throughout the State, and on the view of local authorities on same, since 01/06/2024. 2) Briefing notes, emails, meetings' minutes involving, to or CCing the Minister at the time, on whether the Accommodation Recognition Payment should be reduced or ended, since June 2024.
- Received 14 February 2025Decided 13 March 2025GrantedClare County Council
With regards to a named housing estate, a copy of the report(s) prepared by the Council’s personnel (or agents employed by the Council) who inspected the houses in recent months. The report(s) submitted following the inspection(s) in question would have formed the basis on which Warning Letters were issued in recent days to ourselves and some of the other houseowners. I also request a copy of the letter(s), email(s) or other communication(s) which set out the scope of the work to be undertaken in the inspections referred to above. By way of background, a warning letter was issued from the Enforcement Section.
- Received —Decided 11 March 2025GrantedLouth County Council
TENANT RENT SCHEME
- Received 10 January 2025Decided 10 March 2025Part-GrantedThe Housing Agency (Housing & Sustainable Communities Agency)
1.All records documenting threats, hostile communications, or security concerns related to Housing Agency staff and contractors from January 2020 to present. This includes incident reports, internal correspondence about security concerns, any risk assessments conducted, records of reports made to An Garda Síochána, meeting minutes etc. 2.Records relating to the decision to invoke Section 32(1)(b) of the FOI Act as a basis for refusing access to records, including guidelines or criteria used to determine when this exemption applies, internal correspondence about the use of this exemption etc.