About the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

The Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage's mission is to support the sustainable and efficient delivery of well-planned homes and effective local government.

The department's Statement of Strategy sets out how it will achieve its goals to:

• ensure that planning and building in our regions and communities contributes to sustainable and balanced development
• provide for a stable, sustainable supply of good quality housing
• provide a framework for the sustainable management of water resources from source to sea
• support and enable democratic, responsive and effective local government, effective electoral management and high quality fire services and emergency management
• serve society by producing and communicating reliable weather and climate information to protect life and property and to improve Met Éireann’s role as the authoritative voice for high impact weather in Ireland

Since 9 September 2020 the department is also responsible for:

• managing the Irish State’s nature conservation responsibilities under national and European law
• formulation and implementation of policy relating to Ireland’s architectural heritage
• responsibility for built heritage including the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage

• Corporate and Business Support Division
• Housing Policy, Governance and Legislation Division
• Social Housing Delivery Division
• Housing Affordability, Inclusion and Homelessness Division
• Water Division
• Planning Division
• Local Government Division
• Met Éireann Division
• Local Government Audit Service Division

• Accessible Publications Requests
• Access to Information on the Environment (AIE)
• Annual Report
• Contact the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
• Corporate Governance Framework
• Customer Feedback/Complaints Procedure
• Data Protection
• Freedom of Information
• History of the department
• Irish Language Scheme 2020-2023
• Management Board
• Ministers' Diaries
• Open Data
• Organisation Chart
• Procurement
• Prompt Payment Returns
• Protected Disclosures
• Quality Customer Service
• Recruitment
• Regulation of Lobbying
• Re-use of Public Sector Information
• Secretary General's Diaries
• State Bodies
• Statement of Strategy
• The Custom House