Housing
3638 requests
- Received —Decided —Wicklow County Council
wicklow housing waiting list. 2. The breakdown of the housing waiting list in relation to Irish citizens, European citizens, and applications from outside the EU. 3. How many people currently receive HAP payments in Wicklow 4. The breakdown again in relation to Irish citizens, European citizens, and applications from non EU citizens.
- Received —Decided —Wicklow County Council
confirm if numbers represent per household or all adults & children waiting. The number of offers of social housing that were made by the council in 2021 up until 21/04/2021 for (i) two bedroom and (ii) three-bedroom properties in the areas of Greystones, Kilcoole, Delgany, and those nominated/allocated to voluntary housing bodies / associations and of those - the number of which were (i) accepted and (ii) refused (iii) length of time waiting on the list before receiving an offer of housing. In the cases where they were refused, please provide a breakdown by the reasons for the refusal. Confirmation if the following properties have been allocated: X Copies of the Chief executives' monthly reports for march 2021 & April 2021
- Received —Decided —Wicklow County Council
as Burnaby Mill in Greystones, from its junction with Burnaby Lawns to its furthest point from that junction at the north east corner of the housing development known as Burnaby Mill. I am looking for a copy of any minutes of the Council, or any Order made by the Council in relation to the ‘taking in charge’ of Burnaby Mill. Any single record which authoritatively confirms that the road has (or has not) been taken in charge will satisfy this request. I am happy to withdraw this request if the Council would prefer to respond outside the FOI process.
- Received 17 January 2021Decided —Wicklow County Council
Records to include but not limited to: Incident reports. Desktop reviews, preliminary assessment reviews, including housing support, RAS and all correspondence on same.
- Received —Decided —Wicklow County Council
Please provide details, to cover the years 2019, 2020 and 2021 (inclusive and by year) regarding the number of people who presented as homeless citing domestic violence/abuse; the number in the same timeframe of people deemed active domestic violence cases in your area; the number of refuges or shelters in your area and the be capacity of same; the number of 'can not accommodate' cases involving those refuges or shelters, again in the same timeframe and as notified to the local authority (ie, people seeking a bed in a refuge or shelter but here no bed is available). Please provide any additional contextual information you wish to provide regarding funding of these refuges and how those who cannot be accommodated in them due to space or capacity issues are housed alternatively.
- Received 7 December 2022Decided —Wicklow County Council
1. ‘A copy of all minutes & agendas for Wicklow County Council's Housing & Corporate Estate Strategic Policy Committee in 2021 & 2022. 2. A copy of the chief executive’s monthly management report for October & November 2022.’
- Received —Decided —Wicklow County Council
with subsection (1), shall, within 15 working days of the end of each 3 monthly period to 31 March, 30 June, 30 September and 31 December in each year notify the local authority concerned of all attendances by the member at meetings of the body concerned and any payments made by or on behalf of that body (including details of distances travelled where payments are in respect of the use of a private vehicle) to the member during the period. I am seeking any notifications made under this section by councillors in your local authority, relating to payments received in 2018. (To be clear: this can include notifications submitted to your local authority after the end of 2018, but pertaining to payments received in 2018.) 2. ‘Schedule D’ (‘Aggregated Travel Form’ ) is referred to at page 25 of the Directions Issued by the Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government with special responsibility for Local Government and Electoral Reform, under Article 17 of the Local Government (Expenses of Local Authority Members) Regulations 2014-2017 (S.I. No. 236 of 2014 & S.I. No. 494 of 2017). I am seeking any Schedule D ‘Aggregated Travel Forms’ submitted by your local authority’s councillors, that relate to the period 2018.
- Received —Decided —Wicklow County Council
1. Project management 2. Housing Design 3. Cost planning and management 4. Finance planning and management 5. Community Liaison 6. Roads design, compliance & planning 7. Services design, compliance & planning 8. Environmental design, compliance & planning 9. Parks design, compliance & planning 10. Health & Safety design, compliance & planning 11. PSCS 12. Administration (B) External consultants costs, including but not limited to: 1. Project Manager 2. Clerk of Works 3. Architect 4. BCAR/Assigned Certifier 5. PSCS 6. Civil Engineer 7. Structural Engineer 8. M&E Engineer 9. Quantity Surveyor 10. Planning Consultant 11. Landscape Architect 12. Interior Designer 13. Valuer 14. Soil Investigation 15. Asbestos Surveyor 16. Arborist 17. Ecologist 18. Archaeologist 19. Fire Consultant 20. Topographical Surveyor 21. Health & Safety Consultant (2) A copy of the post-Planning costs incurred by Wicklow County Council in relation to the 88 units in Hazelbrook Rise, Rathnew (Planning References 06/6163, 12/6534, 17/1018, 18/588), in particular: (A) Internal staff costs, including but not limited to the internal staff costs outlined under heading (1)(A) above; (B) External consultants costs, including but not limited to the internal staff costs outlined under heading (1)(B) above; (C) Contractors’ costs, including but not limited to: 1. Main Contractor;
- Received —Decided —Wicklow County Council
occasion (including the total number of refusals), and the number of individuals families who were suspended from social housing waiting lists as a result of refusing social housing
- Received —Decided —Wicklow County Council
1. Housing Grants for People with a Disability; 2. Housing Aid for Older People; 3. Disabled Persons Grant Scheme. Please answer each question in respect to the area covered by your local authority. Questions: 1. In each of the following years – 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018/19 – how many applications did the council receive for housing adaptation? Please break this down by grant scheme. 2. In each of the following years – 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 – how many applicants were successful in their application for housing adaptation? Please break this down by 1) grant scheme and 2) priority category e.g. Emergency case, Priority 1, Priority 2, Priority 3. 3. In each of the following years – 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 – what was the average processing time for an application for housing adaptation – from when an applicant submits an application for adaptation, until they are approved by the local authority and then until completion of works. (for example, application received 2/7/18/. Application approved 20/8/18. Adaptation work completed 22/10/18. Time from application to works beginning = 16 weeks) 4. In each of the following years – 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 – what was the average cost of a housing adaptation? Please break this down by grant scheme. 5. In each of the following years – 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 – what month, if any, did the scheme close? Please provide data for each grant scheme.
- Received —Decided —Wicklow County Council
funded under Section 10 of the Housing Act 1988 in your local authority administrative area; 3. Monthly reports (from January 2016 to the most recent record available) detailing the number of people who entered emergency homeless accommodation funded under Section 10 of the Housing Act 1988 in your local authority administrative area; categorised as adults and as dependants 4. Monthly reports (from January 2016 to the most recent record available) detailing the number of people who exited emergency homeless accommodation funded under Section 10 of the Housing Act 1988 in your local authority administrative area; categorised as adults and as dependants
- Received 15 July 2016Decided —Wicklow County Council
Amount spent on hotels/private accommodation including B&B’s for homeless services detailing the amount of money paid to each hotel/accommodation in 2014, 2015 and 2016. For clarity we want the name of each hotel and the amount of money they received for homelessness. This should detail the number of bed nights each hotel received.
- Received 15 July 2016Decided —Wicklow County Council
Total amount of unpaid council rents (and the number of households involved) in 2016, 2015, 2014 and 2013. The total number of people who have been evicted for not paying Council rent in 2016, 2015, 2014 and 2013. The number of people who have not paid their rent for more than a year in 2016, 2015, 2014 and 2013.
- Received —Decided —Wicklow County Council
6- the amount of money spent throughout 2015 and since by the local authority on repairing the damage to properties as a result of anti-social behaviour 7- The amount of money spent throughout 2015 and since by the local authority on legal fees and related costs regarding anti-social behaviour cases 8-Please also provide information as to the number of rejections in 2015 and since of an offer of a local authority tenancy in which the possibility of anti-social behaviour was given as a possible reason; the overall number of rejections of offers of local authority housing; the number of 'multiple rejections', eg, a family or individual who turned down more than one property offer; and the reasons why, eg, by category
- Received 21 December 2016Decided —Handled outside of FOIWicklow County Council
That the council provides the name of the company or person they used for the valuation for the four apartments and set the rent for same. The four apartments on Barton St. Tinahely, Co. Wicklow, owned by the following: Gretta Douglas, Eoin O'Toole, Catherine Walsh and Seamus Cullen
- Received —Decided —Wicklow County Council
Under section 10 of the FOI, we ask that WCC identify what steps it has taken ascertain the accommodation requirements of our clients and to assess their eligibility for accommodation provided by WCC. 3-Pursuant to sections 11 and 12 of FOI, we request access to all records held by WCC concerning the steps it has taken or has not taken within the last four years to fulfil its statutory obligations under 9 and 13 of the Housing Act 1988 (as amended) to a)members of the travelling community b)our clients
- Received —Decided —Wicklow County Council
Area, including (if available) a breakdown of the list by family size and length of time on the list 2- The latest figures on the number of applications to the Social Housing Transfer List from Wicklow Local Authority Area. To also provide separate figures for the number of HAP recipient on the Transfer List (if applicable) 3- Figures on the opening balance, expenditure and closing balance of the Part V fund from Wicklow Local Authority for December 2016 and at present 4-Figures detailing the number of individuals or households presenting to homeless services in Wicklow County Council in each month in 2016 and to present in 2017, including the number of dependents of each person/ household and (if available) breakdown by family size 5-Figures detailing the amount of funding sought from the DECLG/ DHPLG to provide emergency homeless accommodation for households in 2016 and to date in 2017 and the amount that was recouped from the DECLG/ DHPLG for this purpose 6- Figures detailing the number of social housing units that have been commenced by the Wicklow Local Authority since January 2015 and the date on which they were commenced 7-Details of the number of approvals sought from the DECLG/ DHPLG for social housing construction projects and/or acquisition of housing units for social housing, the number of units for which approval was sought and whether these approvals were granted or not from January 2015 to date 8- Latest Figures on the number of Vacant Social Housing Units owned by Wicklow Local Authority in 2017 9- Statistics on the average time it takes for Wicklow Local Authority to return a social housing unit that has been vacated back to productive use 10-The number of applicants to the
- Received —Decided —Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
of the 'Rent a Room to a Student' Scheme per year since its inception.
- Received —Decided —Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
rent hikes since July 2025.
- Received —Decided —Part-GrantedDepartment of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
campus of DIT (TU Dublin) from social and affordable housing obligations when transferred/sold. Copies of reports and correspondence resulting from the fraud noted in 2021
- Received 22 August 2022Decided —Part-GrantedDepartment of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
1) The amount of revenue that the Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine have received in rent from restaurants, fish shops etc in XXXX and to-date in 2022 in tabular form 2) The amount of rent each premise within XXXX pays the Department; How is rent rate agreed eg 15% of the annual turnover income of that particular premise is the rent rate etc 3) The frequency in which each premise within XXXX has to pay the Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine rent for their premises eg First Monday of each month is when rent is paid to the Department 4) The next date when each premise within XXXX is when the rent lease is due to expire and that who pays rent to the Department 5) If the Department has legal power to add financial penalties to premises that fail to pay their rent to the Department and has a premises within the XXXX eg Department has power to add 5% of the monthly rent rate plus the original rent if the rent has not been within after seven working days when the rent was initially due unless the premise has agreement with the Department to not to pay that month rent due to unforeseen circumstances etc; if so the grade of staff member that would approve this request eg Staff members within the Department at the grade of PO and above
- Received 13 June 2022Decided —GrantedDepartment of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Correspondence between the Department and other Departments/State Agencies in relation to action 19/9 of Housing for All: "All Government Departments will examine their existing portfolio of properties and subject to any obligations under the PSC, the LDA Act 2021 or the State Property Act 1954, will place them on the market if they are not required and may be suitable for conversion to residential accommodation"
- Received 21 March 2022Decided —Part-GrantedDepartment of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
I would like to request copies of all records held by the Department in relation to this action to date, including: • Any internal departmental emails, reports or memos linked to this action • Briefing for minister(s) linked to this action • Correspondence and/or minutes of meetings linked to this action with individual peat companies and/or XXXX XXXXX XXXXX • Correspondence and/or minutes of meetings linked to this action with either the Department of Environment, Climate and Communications (DECC) or the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Housing)
- Received 17 September 2020Decided —Part-GrantedDepartment of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
1) A list of capital works projects that were carried out in each of the Fishery Harbour Centre under the remit of the Department. To assist you further what I'm seeking I'm only looking for capital works project where the Department are fully responsible for the project in the years of 2019 and to-date in 2020. Please include a brief description of what works were carried out and when works commenced and when each project is scheduled for completion 2) If any capital works project that is being carried out on behalf of the Department have increased in costs due to COVID-19, if so what was the original costs prior to COVID-19, and what are the new costs 3) A list of capital works projects on behalf of the Department in each of the Fishery Harbour Centre under the remit of the Department where work has yet to comment; Please include a brief description of what works will be carried and when works are likely to commence and estimated time for completion of the project in tabular form 4) The current rent rates that apply to commercial units only eg Restaurants, Fish Shops etc within each of the Fishery Harbour Centre under the remit of the Department, are the rent rates the same in each of the Fishery Harbour Centre, if difference please provide a list of rent rates that the Department of Agriculture Food and the Marine issue to each commercial units in each of the Fishery Harbour Centre under their remit in tabular form
- Received 25 June 2020Decided —GrantedDepartment of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
information pertinent to their exclusion from the Areas of Natural Constraint (ANC) under the recent review. Townland (Code) XXXX (XXXX), XXXX (XXXX), XXXX (XXXX), XXXX (XXXX), XXXX (XXXX), XXXX (XXXX), XXXX (XXXX), XXXX (XXXX), XXXX (XXXX), XXXX (XXXX), XXXX (XXXX), XXXX (XXXX) 2. In relation to the townland of XXXX (XXXXXX) please provide all reasons and all relevant information pertinent to its inclusion in the Areas of Natural Constraint (ANC) under the recent review. 3. It is understood that Family Farm Income (FFI) has been used as a deciding parameter in the rent ANC review. Please provide all relevant and pertinent information explaining: how FFI is calculated; how it is established in the case of each of the townlands noted above, and; how it was used in the ANC review in respect of the mentioned townlands. 4. In relation to the DEEDS in which each of the above townlands are located, please provide details of: Stocking Densities for the relevant years used in the ANC Review; the percentage of arable areas in the relevant period, and; the percentage of Natura 2000 land occurring. 5. Further in relation to the Stocking Density, please provide clarification as to whether stocking density figures were adjusted to account for land and stock held outside of the DEDs in question.
- Received 9 March 2020Decided —Part-GrantedDepartment of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Could you provide me with the following information under the FOI Act 2014 1) The amount of rent that the Department receives from each commercial premises located within Howth Fishery Harbour in the years 2017, 2018 and 2019 in tabular form; 2) The dates of when each commercial premises within Howth Fishery Harbour lease is next due for renewal in tabular form 3) The current lease rent rates that apply to commercial premises that are based within Howth Fishery Harbour 4) As of 6th March 2020 Is the Department still awaiting lease rental rates from any commercial premises within Howth Harbour in respect of 2018 and or 2019; if so the reasons why the Department have not been fully paid, and the steps the Department are taking to recoup the outstanding rates owed to them.
- Received 2 January 2019Decided —GrantedDepartment of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
1) The amount of rent that the Dept of Agriculture, Food and the Marine received from commercial units eg Restaurants etc that are located in each of the fishery harbour centres under the remit of the Department in the years 2017 and 2018 in tabular form (please exclude any amount where the rent was received from any unit that has a premise within any of the fishery centre under the remit of the Department that is funded by the Exchequer ). 2) As of 31 December 2017 and 31 December 2018 the number of commercial units that were vacant in each of the fishery harbour under the remit of the Department; Please indicate the number and location of each vacant unit by fishery harbour and the length of time each unit has been vacant in tabular form. 3) The amount that the Department paid each Harbour Master in each of the fishery harbour under the remit of the Department in the years 2017 and 2018 in tabular form. What grade within the civil servant eg APO etc is the harbour master.
- Received 8 January 2018Decided —Part-GrantedDepartment of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Could you provide me with the following information under the FOI Act 2014 1) The amount that Dept of Agriculture, Food and the Marine received in rent from shops, restaurants etc within Howth Harbour in the years 2014,2015,2016 and 2017 in tabular form 2) The number and percentage of units within Howth Harbour that are vacant as of 31 December 2014, 31 December 2015, 31 December 2016 and 31 December 2017 in tabular form 3) The amount of expenses that Dept of Agriculture, Food and the Marine paid to the Harbour Master in Howth within the years mentioned above; If the Harbour Master is accountable to the Department or local authority
- Received 22 January 2026Decided —Part-GrantedGalway County Council
Request relating to homeless services
- Received 26 January 2026Decided —TransferredGalway County Council
Request relating to applications for derelict housing grants in Galway city.
- Received 30 January 2026Decided —Part-GrantedGalway County Council
Request relating to the taking in charge of a housing estate.
- Received 16 February 2026Decided —Part-GrantedGalway County Council
Request for records regarding housing allocations
- Received 3 March 2026Decided —GrantedGalway County Council
Request for correspondence between County Council and Department of Housing
- Received 11 March 2026Decided —RefusedGalway County Council
Request relating to unfinished housing estates in the County
- Received 19 January 2016Decided —Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
i) The number of harbour masters employed by the Department, the location at which each of these are based, and the amount paid to these in basic annual remuneration ii) The amount paid to harbour masters in each of these locations in on-call allowances during each of the years 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015 iii) The amount paid to harbour masters in each of these locations in housing allowance payments in each of the years 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015
- Received 9 February 2022Decided —GrantedGalway County Council
Request for the details of the discharge licence application in relation to Oakwood Housing Estate in Ballinderreen
- Received 1 March 2022Decided —GrantedGalway County Council
Records regarding the number of mould complaints in social housing in 2020/ 2021
- Received 21 March 2022Decided —Part-GrantedGalway County Council
Request for details regarding Homeless statistics for 2019, 2020 and 2021 including the number of people who presented as homeless citing domestic violence abuse
- Received 29 March 2022Decided —GrantedGalway County Council
Request for records in relation to social housing stock following purchases on the open market over the last five years and the council's policy on bidding against first-time buyers or other non-commercial buyers.
- Received 1 June 2022Decided —WithdrawnGalway County Council
Request for the Housing inspector's report done on requestor's apartment
- Received 24 June 2022Decided —GrantedGalway County Council
Request for records in relation to a complaint to the Council regarding the enforcement of An Bord Pleanála's decision dated June 2018 to refuse permission for the retention of animal housing etc.
- Received 8 July 2022Decided —GrantedGalway County Council
A copy of all draft versions and the final version of the Housing Delivery Action Plan submitted by Galway County Council to the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage and correspondence between the council and the Department in relation to it.
- Received 8 August 2022Decided —Part-GrantedGalway County Council
Records requested in relation to Galway County Council housing statistics including emergency homeless accommodation.
- Received 19 September 2022Decided —Part-GrantedGalway County Council
Request for documents in relation to how much the council spent from 1st Jan to date on hotel and b&b temporary accommodation and how much funding is available to build further housing this year.
- Received 6 December 2022Decided —Part-GrantedGalway County Council
Request for documents relating to internal audits that relate to Approved Housing Bodies from 2015-present
- Received 16 January 2023Decided —GrantedGalway County Council
FOI in relation to Social Housing Supports available
- Received 16 January 2023Decided —Part-GrantedGalway County Council
FOI in relation to complaints re social housing
- Received 27 February 2023Decided —GrantedGalway County Council
FOI in relation to Social Housing
- Received 17 February 2023Decided —WithdrawnGalway County Council
FOI in relation to housing allocation process
- Received 13 March 2023Decided —Part-GrantedGalway County Council
FOI in relation to Housing statistics 1 / 7