Housing

3638 requests

  • Received 2 September 2021
    Decided 1 October 2021
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference 50-2021
    Requester Type —
    Westmeath County Council

    Records concerning Anti-social behaviour in Council Housing estates

  • Received 2 September 2021
    Decided 30 September 2021
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference 21/105 (5620)
    Requester Type Journalist
    Galway County Council

    Reports and Complaints about anti-social behaviour in council housing estates from March to date.

  • Received 2 September 2021
    Decided 29 September 2021
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference FOI-034-HS21 FOI-022-EN21
    Requester Type Journalist
    Clare County Council

    Reports and complaints about anti-social behaviour in council housing estates owned by this local authority, from March 2021 to date.

  • Received —
    Decided 29 September 2021
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference FOI/2021/0287
    Requester Type —
    Department of the Taoiseach

    I would like to request all communications, records, letters, emails, text messages and WhatsApp messages between the IBRC Commission of Investigation and the Department of the Taoiseach between January 1, 2021 and the present day. This includes figures for the total expenditure incurred by the Commission from the start of this year until the end of August by the main subheads as well as rent, office service charges and legal fees. This request does not include correspondence between the Department and the Commission concerning routine administration expenses incurred by the Commission.

  • Received 4 August 2021
    Decided 29 September 2021
    Granted
    Request Reference FOI-0282-2021
    Requester Type Elected-Oireachtas
    Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

    All commissioned research, reports, memos and briefing notes on the issue of Housing Vacancy from 01/01/2021 to 04/08/2021.

  • Received 1 September 2021
    Decided 29 September 2021
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference FOI-0314-2021
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

    Records relating to a decision by the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to send a letter to the church seeking use of state lands for housing.

  • Received 1 September 2021
    Decided 29 September 2021
    Refused
    Request Reference FOI-0296-2021
    Requester Type Elected-Oireachtas
    Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

    Records held by the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Ministers of State, or Secretary General regarding an event hosted by former Minister Katherine Zappone held in the Merrion Hotel on 21/07/2021.

  • Received 31 August 2021
    Decided 28 September 2021
    Granted
    Request Reference FOI-0308-2021
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

    All correspondence and minutes of meetings involving the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage or anyone above the grade of Principal Officer between 05/11/2020 and 31/08/2021 regarding planning matters as they pertain to the Gaeltacht.

  • Received 31 August 2021
    Decided 28 September 2021
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference FOI-0312-2021
    Requester Type Business/Interest Group
    Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

    Copy of the Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan Scheme Guidelines and The Covid19 Amendments to the Credit Policy held by the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.

  • Received 2 September 2021
    Decided 27 September 2021
    Refused
    Request Reference FOI 118/21
    Requester Type Journalist
    Meath County Council

    Seeks records anti-social behaviour in council housing estates owned by this local authority, from March 2021 to date.

  • Received 2 September 2021
    Decided 27 September 2021
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference FOI 139 21
    Requester Type Journalist
    South Dublin County Council

    Reports and complaints about anti-social behaviour in Council housing estates owned by the Council from March 2021 to date of FOI request.

  • Received 2 September 2021
    Decided 24 September 2021
    Granted
    Request Reference FOI - 149 - 2021
    Requester Type Media
    Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council

    Requesting Records re: Housing Complaints

  • Received 27 August 2021
    Decided 23 September 2021
    Refused
    Request Reference 21/106 (5621)
    Requester Type Journalist
    Galway County Council

    Complaints made in relation to housing and or accommodation for Travellers from Jan 2019 to present

  • Received 27 August 2021
    Decided 23 September 2021
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference FOI 133 21
    Requester Type Journalist
    South Dublin County Council

    A copy of all complaints made in relation to housing and /or accommodation for travellers from January 2019 to present date.

  • Received 23 August 2021
    Decided 22 September 2021
    Refused
    Request Reference FOI - 141 - 2021
    Requester Type Member of the Public
    Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council

    Requesting records re: Assessment of Social housing applications

  • Received 18 August 2021
    Decided 21 September 2021
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference —
    Requester Type Client
    Cork County Council

    Housing file

  • Received 21 September 2021
    Decided 21 September 2021
    Handled outside of FOI
    Request Reference 205-21
    Requester Type Non-Personal
    Cork City Council

    Records Money paid out by CCC for Homeless people in 2020

  • Received 2 September 2021
    Decided 17 September 2021
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference 2021/47
    Requester Type Journalist
    Longford County Council

    Antisocial behaviour in council housing estates

  • Received 17 August 2021
    Decided 17 September 2021
    Granted
    Request Reference FOI 111/21
    Requester Type Business/Interest Group
    Meath County Council

    Seeks records re notices issued pursuant to s.10 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1992 (as amended) ("Section 10 Notices") from 2016 to date.

  • Received 22 July 2021
    Decided 17 September 2021
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference FOI-0268-2021
    Requester Type Business/Interest Group
    Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

    Copy/s of lease / licence for construction of a breakwater at greencastle harbour to Donegal County Council Ref No : MS51/15/661. Copy of all communications between the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage and Donegal County Council relating to a Lease/licence for the use of the seabed and foreshore of Lough Foyle.

  • Received 25 August 2021
    Decided 16 September 2021
    Refused
    Request Reference 181-21
    Requester Type Non-Personal
    Cork City Council

    Section 10 Notices in Housing

  • Received 27 August 2021
    Decided 15 September 2021
    Refused
    Request Reference 2021/45
    Requester Type Journalist
    Longford County Council

    Travelling Housing Complaints

  • Received 17 August 2021
    Decided 14 September 2021
    Granted
    Request Reference FOI 1932
    Requester Type Other
    Mayo County Council

    Details of all notices issued by Mayo County Council under the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1992 (as amended) ("Section 10 Notices").

  • Received 17 August 2021
    Decided 13 September 2021
    Granted
    Request Reference FOI 126 21
    Requester Type Solicitor
    South Dublin County Council

    All information held on the Council's use of notices pursuant to S.10 of the Housing(Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1992 from 2016 to date to include the number of notices issued in each year, the subsection of S.10 that was invoked, number of S.10 Notices that led to the removal and storage of a temporary dwelling and the number of S.10 notices that led to a prosecution.

  • Received 17 August 2021
    Decided 9 September 2021
    Granted
    Request Reference FOI-033-HS21
    Requester Type Solicitor
    Clare County Council

    All information on CCCs use of notices issue pursuant to S10 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1992 (as amended) ('Section 10 Notices') from 2016 to date (the relevant period) I request information on - the no. of Sec 10 notices issued in each year of the relevant period - the subsection of S10 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1992 (as amended) that was invoked - the no. of S10 notices that led to the removal & storage of a temporary dwelling - the no. of S10 notices that led to a prosecution

  • Received —
    Decided 9 September 2021
    Request Reference —
    Requester Type —
    Leitrim County Council

    Reports and complaints about anti-social behaviour in council housing estates owned by this local

  • Received 11 August 2021
    Decided 8 September 2021
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference FOI-0278-2021
    Requester Type Elected-Oireachtas
    Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

    All commissioned research, reports, memos and briefing notes (Principal Officer level and above) regarding the right to housing in the period 01/01/2021 to 11/08/2021.

  • Received 17 August 2021
    Decided 8 September 2021
    Granted
    Request Reference —
    Requester Type Other
    Cork County Council

    Housing stats

  • Received 12 July 2023
    Decided 8 September 2021
    Refused
    Request Reference FOI 115 23
    Requester Type Member of the Public
    South Dublin County Council

    I wish to obtain records held by your Council's Vacant Homes Officers pertaining to vacant or derelict properties that are owned or managed by Approved Housing Bodies, also known as Voluntary Housing Bodies. To facilitate this request, I ask that electronic searches be conducted of the email accounts of your Council's Vacant Homes Officers. The searches should utilize the following terms: "Housing Association" "Approved Housing" "AHB" "Voluntary Housing" Please note that I am specifically looking for records that contain at least one of the listed search terms. Such searches can be easily performed in standard email platforms like Outlook or Gmail. The timeframe for the requested records is from 2017 to the present day.

  • Received 30 August 2021
    Decided 7 September 2021
    Refused
    Request Reference 184-21
    Requester Type Non-Personal
    Cork City Council

    Vacant Housing units owned or leased by CCC

  • Received —
    Decided 2 September 2021
    Request Reference 21/FOI/07
    Requester Type Client
    Cavan County Council

    Housing Statistics

  • Received 23 July 2021
    Decided 1 September 2021
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference FOI-0269-2021
    Requester Type Business/Interest Group
    Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

    All inspection reports and complaints carried out/received by the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage relating to Dublin Zoo from 01/01/2017 to 23/07/2021. All concerns received by the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage in relation to the animals in Dublin Zoo from 01/01/2011 to 23/07/2021 Any external reports or investigations carried out at Dublin Zoo from 01/01/2017-23/07/2021. Copy of the post mortem of Gorilla Harry who died in 2016.

  • Received 21 July 2021
    Decided 1 September 2021
    Refused
    Request Reference 143-21
    Requester Type Non-Personal
    Cork City Council

    Addresses of Vacant Housing Units

  • Received 3 August 2021
    Decided 31 August 2021
    Granted
    Request Reference FOI 1926
    Requester Type Journalist
    Mayo County Council

    Details of funding allocated by Dept. of Housing for Traveller Specific Accommodation.

  • Received 3 August 2021
    Decided 31 August 2021
    Refused
    Request Reference FOI-0288-2021
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

    Correspondence between the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage and the chief executive of the Dublin Region Homeless Executive and the chief executives of either of the four Dublin local authorities, on the topic of housing or homelessness, between 01/03/2021 and 02/08/2021.

  • Received 3 August 2021
    Decided 31 August 2021
    Refused
    Request Reference FOI-0286-2021
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

    Correspondence between the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage and the chair of An Bord Pleanala, between 01/03/2021 and 02/08/2021.

  • Received 4 August 2021
    Decided 31 August 2021
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference FOI-0287-2021
    Requester Type Business/Interest Group
    Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

    Correspondence between the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage and the chief executive of the Land Development Agency, between 01/03/2021 and 02/08/2021.

  • Received 17 August 2021
    Decided 30 August 2021
    Granted
    Request Reference —
    Requester Type Other
    Wicklow County Council

    I request all relevant information on Wicklow County Council’s use of notices issues pursuant to s.10 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 30 July 2021
    Decided 30 August 2021
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference FOI-0283-2021
    Requester Type Elected-Oireachtas
    Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

    All correspondence held by the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage in relation to the definition of affordable housing / defining affordable housing from 01/02/2020 to 29/07/2021.

  • Received 31 July 2021
    Decided 30 August 2021
    Granted
    Request Reference FOI-0281-2021
    Requester Type Elected-Oireachtas
    Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

    All correspondence held by the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage in relation to cost rental equity returns from 29/7/2020 to 29/07/2021.

  • Received 30 July 2021
    Decided 30 August 2021
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference —
    Requester Type Client
    Cork County Council

    Housing file

  • Received 4 August 2021
    Decided 30 August 2021
    Granted
    Request Reference FOI 122 21
    Requester Type Journalist
    South Dublin County Council

    1.Amount of funding allocated to the Council by the Department of Housing for Traveller specific accommodation by year for 2017,2018 and 2019. 2. Details of funding applied for and received for such accommodation for 2020 and to date in 2021. 3. Amount spent by the Council on such accomodation and specific projects and amount spent on each project for each year from 2017-2020 and to date in 2021.

  • Received —
    Decided 26 August 2021
    Request Reference —
    Requester Type —
    Leitrim County Council

    Under the Freedom of Information Act 2014, I am seeking the following: - The amount of funding allocated to the local authority by the Department of Housing for Traveller specific accommodation, by year, for 2017, 2018 and 2019. - Details of funding applied for and received from The Department of Housing for Traveller-specific accommodation for 2020 (entire year) and 2021 (from 01 January to 31 July), and details of the specific projects applied for. - The amount of funding spent on Traveller specific accommodation by the local authority and the specific projects it was spent on (including a breakdown of spend per project), by year, for 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 (entire years) and 2021 (from 01 January to 31 July).

  • Received 29 July 2021
    Decided 26 August 2021
    Refused
    Request Reference AIE-22-1-2021
    Requester Type Business/Interest Group
    Office of Public Works

    I would like to make a request under Access to Information on the Environment rules. I am looking for documentation in relation to works, planned or undertaken, by the OPW at Lough Funshinagh in Co. Roscommon in 2021. I am happy to confine my request to ecological and environmental reports for the works (planned or undertaken) at Lough Funshinagh during 2021, particularly ecological reports, Screening for Appropriate Assessments, Natura Impact Statements and/or other ecological studies. I would also like to know of any written correspondence between the OPW and the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage Development Applications Unit and/or Inland Fisheries Ireland on the works at Lough Funshinagh (planned or undertaken), during 2021.

  • Received 29 July 2021
    Decided 26 August 2021
    Unknown
    Request Reference AIE-23-1-2021
    Requester Type Business/Interest Group
    Office of Public Works

    I would like to make a request under Access to Information on the Environment rules. I am looking for documentation in relation to works undertaken by the OPW along the Boyne River in Co. Meath in 2021, as well as its tributaries, including the River Deel, during that period. I am happy to confine my request to ecological and environmental reports for the works along the River Boyne and its tributaries during 2021, particularly ecological reports, Screening for Appropriate Assessments, Natura Impact Statements and/or other ecological studies. I would also like to know of any written correspondence between the OPW and the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage Development Applications Unit and/or Inland Fisheries Ireland on the works along the River Boyne and its tributaries, including the River Deel, during 2021.

  • Received 17 August 2021
    Decided 25 August 2021
    Refused
    Request Reference 46-2021
    Requester Type —
    Westmeath County Council

    Records concerning Notices issued pursuant to S10 of the Housing Act 1992

  • Received 3 August 2021
    Decided 25 August 2021
    Granted
    Request Reference —
    Requester Type Journalist
    Wicklow County Council

    Under the Freedom of Information Act 2014, I am seeking the following: (a) The amount of funding allocated to the local authority by the Department of Housing for Traveller specific accommodation, by year, for 2017, 2018 and 2019. (b) Details of funding applied for and received from The Department of Housing for Traveller- specific accommodation for 2020 (entire year) and 2021 (from 01 January to 31 July), and details of the specific projects applied for (c) The amount of funding spent on Traveller specific accommodation by the local authority and the specific projects it was spent on (including a breakdown of spend per project), by year, for 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 (entire years) and 2021 (from 01 January to 31 July).

  • Received 27 July 2021
    Decided 23 August 2021
    Refused
    Request Reference FOI-029-HS21
    Requester Type Journalist
    Clare County Council

    An electronic copy of CCC's report on the extent of pyrite and/or mica in Co Clare, prepared at the request of the Dept of Heritage, LG and Housing

  • Received 16 July 2021
    Decided 23 August 2021
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference 21/89 (5572)
    Requester Type Other
    Galway County Council

    Councils involvement with the Mortgage to Rent Scheme

  • Received 25 June 2021
    Decided 23 August 2021
    Part-Granted
    Request Reference FOI-0235-2021
    Requester Type Journalist
    Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

    All correspondence between the Minister for Housing Local Government and Heritage and the former chair of the Land Development Agency John Moran between 26/06/2020 - 26/06/2021.