Housing
3638 requests
- Received 3 March 2016Decided —GrantedKildare County Council
Statistics on the Social Housing Waiting and Transfer Lists; the Part V Fund in 2015; individuals/ households presenting as homeless in 2015 and 2016; the number living in homeless emergency accommodation; social housing and homeless funding in 2015 and 2016; social housing units commenced since January 2015; vacant social housing units in 2016 and social housing approvals sought and obtained from the DECLG from January 2015.
- Received 14 March 2016Decided —Part-GrantedKildare County Council
Number of applicants on Social Housing Waiting Lists and number who are non-Irish and their country of origin.
- Received 9 May 2016Decided —RefusedKildare County Council
Number of applications for reduction of planning contributions received and decided (with the date of decision) up to 30th April 2016 under Section 29 of the Urban Regeneration and Housing Act 2015 and how many have had water or sewerage levies reduced.
- Received 11 May 2016Decided —GrantedKildare County Council
21 requests for statistics on the social housing programme for the past 12 months
- Received 20 May 2016Decided —GrantedKildare County Council
Statistics on Applications received, granted and amount expended on Housing Adaptation Grants
- Received 24 May 2016Decided —GrantedKildare County Council
All information in the possession of the Council in relation to the offer from NAMA to the Council of Social Housing Units
- Received 25 May 2016Decided —RefusedKildare County Council
Information on units identified by NAMA as potentially suitable Social Housing and offered to the Council for intended use as social housing since January 2011
- Received 22 April 2016Decided —Part-GrantedKildare County Council
All factual information relating to the installation of footpaths located between Straffan National School and the entrance to the Barton Grange Housing Estate at New Road, Glebe, Straffan, County Kildare
- Received 22 April 2016Decided —GrantedKildare County Council
All factual information relating to the installation of footpaths located between Straffan National School and the entrance to the Barton Grange Housing Estate at New Road, Glebe, Straffan, County Kildare
- Received 20 June 2023Decided —Longford County Council
Housing Maintenance
- Received 14 July 2023Decided —WithdrawnLongford County Council
Social Housing offers
- Received —Decided —Department of Health
2. Materials relating to the review into income exemptions from fair deal described, including drafts and final copies of the review, and correspondence relating to the review - related to the relevant line Unit. 3. Internal correspondence related to the relevant line Unit in the Department relating to the income exemption matter and mooted changes announced by Minister for Housing Darragh O'Brien in March 2023 (a/sec level and above) 4. From 01 March 2023 to 31 December 2023
- Received —Decided —Leitrim County Council
calls, staff notes of meetings and conversations, submissions from members of the public and/or public representatives and any other stakeholders concerning the Liscara estate of Carrick on Shannon. Without prejudice to the generality of the request, such records and data should include but not be limited to: • Records, reports and complaints held by Leitrim County Council in relation to antisocial behaviour in Cluain Oir, Liscara, Carrick on Shannon from 2020 to date • Records, reports and complaints held by Leitrim County Council in relation to the management of Cluain Oir, Liscara, Carrick on Shannon from 2020 to date. • Records, reports and complaints held by Leitrim County Council in relation to the flooding in or around Cluain Oir, Liscara, Carrick on Shannon from 2020 to date. • Records, reports and complaints held by Leitrim County Council in relation to any structural surveys conducted on the properties in Cluain Oir, Liscara, Carrick on Shannon owned by Leitrim County Council from 2020 to date. • Reports prepared by experts or professionals on behalf of the local authority in relation to the standard and quality of accommodation in Cluain Oir, Liscara, Carrick on Shannon. • Records, reports and complaints held by Leitrim County Council regarding compliance/non-compliance with the Housing Regulations 2019 of those houses in Cluain Oir, Liscara, Carrick-on-Shannon in which Leitrim County Council is or was landlord at any time between 2020 and the date of this request. • Records, reports and complaints held by Leitrim County Council regarding the presence of mould in any or all of the houses in Cluain Oir, Liscara, Carrick-on- Shannon in which Leitrim County Council is or was the landlord at any time between 2020 and the date of this request.
- Received —Decided —Leitrim County Council
2. Could you provide me with a breakdown of all amounts paid by or on behalf of Leitrim County Council for the purchase, renovations, maintenance and repairs of the following five properties in the Oaklands estate, Carrick on Shannon: •13 Oaklands, •60 Oaklands, •61 Oaklands, •65 Oaklands and •73 Oaklands. 3. Could you provide me with a list of all residenal properes built by or on behalf of Leitrim County Council since January 2018, the price paid for the construction of those properties and a breakdown indicating the cost of each unit with reference to the number of bedrooms offered per property. This information should take the form: •1 bedroom dwellings [address] 'unit cost' •2 bedroom dwellings [address] 'unit cost' •3 bedroom dwellings [address] 'unit cost', etc., as applicable. 4, Could you please provide me with the figures for the amounts of any money allocated to Leitrim County Council's housing budget for the years 2022, 2023 and 2024 and with regard to 2024, could you please indicate how much of the housing budget for 2024 has already been spent as of the date of this request. With regard to expenditure of the budgets over the years 2022, 2023 and 2024, could you please indicate the amounts paid for the acquisition of properties, the amounts paid for the rental of accommodation, and the amounts paid for the purpose of renovations, maintenance and repairs of residential properties owned by or rented to Leitrim County Council. 5, With regard to construcon work paid for by Leitrim County Council, I would like to know the cost of the work done at the bus-stop outside the Avant Card building in Carrick on Shannon and the cost of the work being carried out by the River Shannon, next to the car-park across the road from the Landmark Hotel, Carrick on Shannon. 6, I noce that there is work being carried at the Leitrim County Council Offices in Carrick on Shannon. Could you please provide a description of the various tasks being undertaken in those endeavours giving reasons for having the work done and indicating the cost of each task being paid by Leitrim County Council.
- Received —Decided —Leitrim County Council
personal request for access to records held by Leitrim County Council: •Policies / Procedures / Guidance Documentaon •Homeless Presentaons •Compleon of Homeless Assessments •Determinaons of Homelessness •Provision of Emergency Accommodaon •No Provision of Emergency Accommodaon Under the above headings the request seeks information/records under 14 separate headings, subdivided down into 78 sub headings. Request revised on 16th April. 14 questions remain - subdivided down to 22 subheadings.
- Received —Decided —Leitrim County Council
down by municipal district and town/village. 2) The number of people who have been on the waiting list for social housing for more than three years in each of the municipal districts; along with between three and five years; between five and seven years; between seven and 10 years; and more than 10 years. 3) The length of time the five people who have been on the waiting list for social housing the longest in Leitrim have been waiting for;
- Received —Decided —Leitrim County Council
council: • A record of the number of people who were offered social housing by the council in each individual month between 1 June 2018 and the present date - and the number of people who refused those offers • A record of the number of people, registered as homeless, who were offered social housing by the council in each individual month between 1 June 2018 and the present date - and the number of people who refused those offers.
- Received —Decided —Leitrim County Council
• A copy of all draft versions and the final version of the Housing Delivery Action Plan
- Received —Decided —Leitrim County Council
submitted by Leitrim County Council to the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, as requested under Circular: Housing 32/2021, Housing for All: Housing Delivery Action Plans. • Any correspondence between the council and the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage in relation to the Housing Delivery Action Plan.
- Received —Decided —Leitrim County Council
the accessing of emergency homeless accommodation, including but not limited to (i) the assessment of eligibility for such accommodation and (ii) the allocation and re- allocation of such accommodation.
- Received —Decided —Leitrim County Council
people who have died whislt in your homeless accomodation for the year 2021.
- Received 17 October 2022Decided —Leitrim County Council
I understand that the housing minister instructed that a circular be issued to local authorities, instructing them to reach out to parish based charitable trusts to discuss opportunities to try to develop more housing and ease the housing crisis. I would like to access, under Freedom of Information law, all of the correspondence and records held by your local authority relating to this circular, and any and all responses and discussions with local parishes/religious organisations.
- Received —Decided —Leitrim County Council
Records regarding the number of mould complaints in social housing in 2021 within the council's
- Received —Decided —Leitrim County Council
remit. Records regarding the number of mould complaints in social housing in 2020 within the council's remit.
- Received —Decided —Leitrim County Council
•the number of people who presented as homeless cing domesc violence/abuse; •the number in the same meframe of people deemed acve domesc 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 —Decided —Leitrim County Council
…under the FOI Act, I am writing to you to make an application for a copy of a specific document that was submitted to you as part of our Housing Application. This document is a copy of my medical file. I do not require any other documents in relation to my application
- Received —Decided —Leitrim County Council
Housing Department on behalf of Mr David Cochrane of No. 2, The Bungalows, Glencar Co Leitrim, F91 N732, on the 4th of October 2021.
- Received —Decided —Leitrim County Council
I request a copy of my [housing] file and all related documents held by you.
- Received —Decided —Leitrim County Council
by: • Category of disability, ie: Physical disability, mental health disability, intellectual disability, sensory disability, other disabilities. • Length of time on the waiting list, ie: <6 months, 6-12 months, 1-2 years, 2-3 years, 3-4 years, 4-5 years, 5-7 years, >7 years. I have asked for these specific categories as these seem to be how the Department of Housing has recorded these in the past. However, if they do not fit with how you record them I would gladly take the information broken down in a way that fits your records/ spreadsheets.
- Received —Decided —Leitrim County Council
addresses of all current vacant housing units owned by the local authority and (if available) the date since when they became vacant..
- Received —Decided —Leitrim County Council
of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1992 (as amended) ("Section 10 Notices") from 2016 to date (the "relevant period"). Without prejudice to the generality of my request, I request information on: • the number of Section 10 Notices issued in each year of the relevant period; • the subsection of s.10 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1992 (as amended) that was invoked; • the number of Section 10 Notices that led to the removal and storage of a temporary dwelling; and • the number of Section 10 Notices that led to a prosecution.
- Received —Decided —Leitrim County Council
I would like to request the minutes of meetings of the Housing and Disability Steering Group established in the Administrative area for 2019, 2020 and 2021. Additionally, I am seeking membership of the Steering Group for the three years and attendance at the meetings referred to above.
- Received —Decided —Leitrim County Council
•All correspondence between officials in the Dept of Housing and the Housing section officials of your Local Authority as they relate to long term leasing deals within the residential sector since 2017
- Received —Decided —Leitrim County Council
1. How many people are on the Leitrim housing waiting list.
- Received —Decided —Leitrim County Council
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 on Leitrim. 4. The breakdown again in relation to Irish citizens, European citizens, and applications from non-EU citizens.
- Received —Decided —Meath County Council
We are also requesting all and any non-personal records that note and identify: • the number of applications for homeless priority made to the Council in 2015 and 2016 by individuals presenting as homeless to the Council; and • the number of such applications for homeless priority made to the Council in 2015 and 2016 by individuals presenting as homeless to the Council that were refused by the Council.
- Received —Decided —Meath County Council
homelessness, medical, overcrowding, anti-social and broken down by household • The number of staff (full time equivalents) employed in your housing department in 2007, 2010 and 2015 and the total cost of these staff for each of the three years • An estimate of the additional funding required in 2016 to return staffing levels to 2010 and 2007 levels • The number of DPG, HAG & MAG applications approved and awaiting funding and the total amount of funding required to clear these waiting lists • The total acreage of Council owned land in your administrative area zoned for residential development • Total number of households (with breakdown by household type and adult/children) registered as homeless in your administrative area • Total number of rough sleepers in your administrative area • Total number of households (with breakdown by household size and adult/children) in emergency accommodation • Total number of allocations of housing to people on your homeless list for the last 12 months broken down by household size and average length of time in emergency accommodation • Total number of households on your older persons housing list and average waiting time for allocations off this list in last 12 months.
- Received —Decided —Meath County Council
Records held by the Housing section and not those held by Environment or other
- Received —Decided —Meath County Council
We request a copy of the final Part V (social housing) agreement for Royal Oaks,
- Received —Decided —Meath County Council
Details of Housing Estates, Apartment complexes in your administrative area, have
- Received —Decided —Meath County Council
1. The overall number of intentions to compulsory purchase issued by the local authority, the number that were issued pursuant to its role as a Housing Authority and any other relevant categorisation of the reason for the compulsory purchase broken down per annum from 2011 to 2018 to date. 2. The number of Confirmed Orders issued by An Bord Pleanála and the number
- Received —Decided —Meath County Council
FOI Request re Vacant Housing Units Specifically, the addresses of any vacant residential units within the administrative
- Received —Decided —Meath County Council
a ) A list of publicly owned buildings known to have asbestos present, including but not limited to schools, hospitals, council buildings and social housing b) Any records pertaining to asbestos inspections for buildings in part (a)
- Received 1 February 2017Decided —GrantedMeath County Council
1) The latest figures on the number of applications from the Social Housing Waiting List in Meath Local Authority 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 Meath 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 Meath Local Authority for December 2016 and at present. 4) Figures detailing the number of individuals or households presenting to homeless services in Meath 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 Meath 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 Meath Local Authority in 2017. 9) Statistics on the average of it takes for Meath Local Authority to return a social housing unit that has been vacated back to productive use. 10) The number of applicants to the Tenant (Incremental) Purchase Scheme to date, including the number of successful and unsuccessful applicants to the Tenant (Incremental) Purchase Scheme to date and (if available) a breakdown of the reasons given to applicants for not approving their application
- Received 6 March 2017Decided —GrantedMeath County Council
The following records or public information held by you: · A full list of all housing estates that HAVE NOT BEEN TAKEN IN CHARGE within the Navan Local Electoral Area as of today’ date. · Please also furnish a list of those Housing Estates that have applications currently pending to be TAKEN IN CHARGE or where you have received application
- Received 15 September 2017Decided —RefusedMeath County Council
The number of Irish examinations conducted over the past 10 years (broken down by years) for applicants who want to buy houses in housing estates in the Meath Gaeltacht & the number of applicants who passed and failed (broken down by years) these examinations. The amount of new houses built in housing estates (broken down by year) in which a language assessment were required by the purchaser.
- Received 3 November 2017Decided —GrantedMeath County Council
1. A detailed list of reasons why people are refusing social housing for 2016 and up to October 2017. 2. The total number of refusals for each of the years concerned. 3. A list of areas where refusals occurred.
- Received 13 November 2017Decided —RefusedMeath County Council
(i) The name of all housing estates constructed in your area between the years 1st January, 2000 to 1st January, 2005. (ii) If possible you might let us know the number of construction (units) in each estate.
- Received 28 December 2017Decided —Part-GrantedMeath County Council
Re: Housing list in Meath County Council (a) The housing list policy/scheme operating prior to 2011, including the criteria necessary to be considered eligible for housing from the local authority. (b) The housing list policy/scheme operating currently, including the criteria necessary to be considered eligible for housing from the local authority. (c) The number of people on the housing list currently. (d) The number of people on the housing list in 2011. (e) The number of people over the age of 65 on the housing list in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017. (f) Statistics in relation to the waiting time for single people on the housing list from 2011 to the present time.
- Received —Decided —Department of the Taoiseach
1. Minutes of meetings of the Housing for All Investment Working Group during 2024 and 2025 to date. Please note I am not seeking the "note of key actions" documents available at this link: (link) 2. Any further "notes of key actions" arising from meetings after the November 2024 meeting which are at this time unpublished online 3. A paper on LDA funding referenced in the November 25th 'AOB' section, being prepared by the Department of Finance