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Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (15 May 2024)

Thomas Gould: Is HAP social housing?

Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (15 May 2024)

Thomas Gould: He is not answering.

Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (15 May 2024)

Thomas Gould: The Minister mentioned "evidence-based". Obviously, the Minister is quite an intelligent man and being Minister for Finance, is good with figures. He quoted that Cork City Council delivered 800 additional houses. That is a misprint, that was 800 families. Some 1,000 to 1,200 came on to the housing waiting list the same year. I am not a genius or an expert in maths but if 800 houses are...

Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (15 May 2024)

Thomas Gould: I support these amendments in relation to the ability to draw down funding. We are in the middle of the worst housing crisis in the history of the State and we will not having the ability to access vital funding. We have the highest house prices, rent and homelessness figures in the history of the State. We have almost 8,000 people on housing lists in Cork. The Government's affordable...

Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (15 May 2024)

Thomas Gould: The Minister should check the figures published today. He probably has not seen them as he was here going through the Bill. I ask him to come back to me tomorrow. Everyone knows the target figures set by the Government and the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, of just over 30,000 houses a year are too low. Then we hear the Minister say the Government will hold a review and look at the...

Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (15 May 2024)

Thomas Gould: Four thousand children are homeless. Is that your best contribution? Some 4,100 children are homeless and that is your best contribution.

Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (15 May 2024)

Thomas Gould: Fine Gael has been in government for 13 years.

Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (15 May 2024)

Thomas Gould: Fianna Fáil has been in government for seven or eight years with it. You have made 4,000 children and 13,000 adults homeless and that is your best contribution.

Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (15 May 2024)

Thomas Gould: If that is all you can contribute today, you would be better off going back to your constituency because you should be ashamed of yourself.

Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (15 May 2024)

Thomas Gould: That is fair enough. To get back to the point, on derelict and vacant sites, according to the census there are 163,000 vacant properties. A number of years ago, I got a site in Blarney Street put on the derelict sites register. I have mentioned it here a number of times. This butcher's shop was empty for 33 years and because it went onto the derelict sites register and Cork City...

Road Safety and Maintenance: Motion [Private Members] (15 May 2024)

Thomas Gould: On Monday evening, a young man in my constituency was seriously injured in a motorbike accident. At the moment, he is in a critical condition. Our thoughts are with him and his family at this time. He, unfortunately, is just one of a number of people, especially young people, who have been involved in serious road accidents in my constituency. There are a number of reasons for this. A...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Sports Events (14 May 2024)

Thomas Gould: I do not accept the Minister of State's assertion that there is no role for the Government in this matter. Hurling is not just another sport. It is our national game. It is part of our culture and tradition. It is what Irish people from the island of Ireland and all across the world associate with being Irish. To say the Government has no part to play in it, while other sports are on...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Sports Events (14 May 2024)

Thomas Gould: Cork's heroic victory over Limerick last weekend will go down in history as one of the most exciting games of the modern time but thousands, if not tens of thousands, of people were not able to watch it, including diehard GAA people and hurling people who love the game. So far, not one of Cork's hurling championship matches have been on television. The games against Clare and Waterford were...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Illegal Dumping (14 May 2024)

Thomas Gould: 123. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment whether consideration has been given to the establishment of a dumping taskforce in Cork city. [21616/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (14 May 2024)

Thomas Gould: 124. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment for an update on the National Broadband Plan in Cork. [21617/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Management (14 May 2024)

Thomas Gould: 216. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether funding is available for infrastructure and traffic calming in Cloughduv village. [21645/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (14 May 2024)

Thomas Gould: 217. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason the northern transport project for Cork city has not been included in the National Development Plan interactive transport map. [21671/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (14 May 2024)

Thomas Gould: 223. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether consideration will be given to providing a stop for the 203 bus in Onslow Gardens in Cork city, given it once stopped there. [21798/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (14 May 2024)

Thomas Gould: 320. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the provision of an additional school bus for a school (details supplied).; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21527/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Funding (14 May 2024)

Thomas Gould: 377. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether funding is available for the taking-in-charge of estates. [21642/24]