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- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (10 Mar 2022)
Thomas Gould: 92. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if each child who needs a secondary school place in Cork city and county in September 2022 will have one. [13408/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (10 Mar 2022)
Thomas Gould: 154. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when therapists will return to special schools. [13409/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (10 Mar 2022)
Thomas Gould: 208. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if local authorities directly supply mortgage to rent or only supply the scheme through approved housing bodies and an organisation (details supplied). [13544/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (10 Mar 2022)
Thomas Gould: 209. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on whether approved housing bodies, AHBs, should be given first refusal on all mortgage to rent cases. [13545/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (10 Mar 2022)
Thomas Gould: 210. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department will meet its target of 1,000 mortgage to rent cases in 2022. [13546/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (10 Mar 2022)
Thomas Gould: 211. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a person must be within social housing income thresholds to qualify for the mortgage to rent scheme. [13547/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (10 Mar 2022)
Thomas Gould: 212. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if independent valuations of market rent for housing under the mortgage to rent scheme consider the condition of the house. [13548/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (10 Mar 2022)
Thomas Gould: 213. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated cost of maintenance annually on properties under the mortgage to rent scheme. [13549/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (10 Mar 2022)
Thomas Gould: 214. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homes that have been purchased back by tenants under the mortgage to rent scheme by year since its establishment. [13550/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (10 Mar 2022)
Thomas Gould: 215. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of approved housing bodies currently involved in the mortgage to rent scheme. [13551/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (10 Mar 2022)
Thomas Gould: 216. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of officials in his Department currently employed to assist in the mortgage to rent scheme. [13552/22]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban and Rural Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)
Thomas Gould: I have a number of questions. Why have the recommendations of Alison Harvey of the Heritage Council, in its collaboration on vacancy data with the Housing Agency, Vacanthomes.ie and Space Engagers, not been taken on board given that it was a key objective in the last housing policy?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban and Rural Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)
Thomas Gould: How long will that take? How long until we have proper and accurate data about vacancies and dereliction and about how long a property has been derelict? Will we have the data this time next year?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban and Rural Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)
Thomas Gould: I apologise for cutting Mr. Logan short but the issue is that the Derelict Sites Act came into force in 1990. It is now 2022. After 32 years, we have no accurate data on dereliction. Is that what we are being told today?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban and Rural Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)
Thomas Gould: I was in Cork City Council, and for years I was looking for accurate data in relation to Cork City Council. Yesterday, Deputy Ó Broin was in Cork with me and Deputy Ó Laoghaire. We walked around with the Anois group, representatives of which, Dr. Frank O'Connor and Ms Jude Sherry, gave a presentation to this committee on dereliction. I walked around Cork city centre and the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban and Rural Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)
Thomas Gould: On that point, €405 million in funding was allocated for regeneration for Cork city, of which €350 million was for the docklands area. We have been waiting 30 years for the docklands regeneration. It is welcome money and it is very much needed. Not a single penny in funding was granted for the northside of Cork city, which has the worst dereliction. In the Department's...