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- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (26 Apr 2022)
Thomas Gould: 658. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of staff members that are employed full-time equivalent in the vacant homes unit in his Department and if he will update on their work [20379/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Supports (26 Apr 2022)
Thomas Gould: 687. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homeless persons who died in County Cork in 2021. [20917/22]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Funding (28 Apr 2022)
Thomas Gould: 86. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department takes a macro view of the funding allocation across Departments to ensure fair distribution geographically. [21482/22]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Funding (28 Apr 2022)
Thomas Gould: Is the Minister's Department taking a macro view of the funding allocation across Departments to ensure fair distribution geographically? I am particularly thinking of the funding streams announced for projects across one local authority. Where money is being invested, it is not being done evenly. I am sure the Minister is aware of the area I wish to discuss and is cognisant of the neglect...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Funding (28 Apr 2022)
Thomas Gould: I am very proud to come from Knocknaheeny. The northside of Cork city is one of the best places in the world. We have brilliant communities with brilliant people, amazing history and huge potential. When I was elected to the Dáil, I gave a commitment to the people who elected me that I would fight to end the neglect of the northside. Part of this is making sure that when Government...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Funding (28 Apr 2022)
Thomas Gould: I will give the Minister a couple of facts. On the regeneration announcement for Cork, of €405 million, not one penny is going to the northside. On sustainable transport funding, there are 66 projects; 31 in the southside and 12 in the northside. Nearly €16 million is being spent on the southside and less than €6 million on the northside. These are the...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Funding (28 Apr 2022)
Thomas Gould: These are the figures-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Funding (28 Apr 2022)
Thomas Gould: The southern link road was built 20 years ago.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Funding (28 Apr 2022)
Thomas Gould: When will the northern link road be built?
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Funding (28 Apr 2022)
Thomas Gould: Only €300,000.
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Apr 2022)
Thomas Gould: There are concerns with this Bill. I hope the Minister will take on board the amendments we and others will bring forward to improve it. There are and have been concerns with the Government's role in judicial appointments over the past couple of years. The Oireachtas Joint Committee on Justice did not agree to waive the pre-legislative scrutiny, PLS, on this. More importantly, the...
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Apr 2022)
Thomas Gould: Yes. I appreciate there is considerable work to be discussed in this Bill. It is vitally important. We talk about the Judiciary but ordinary people on the ground have to feel protected and safe. I ask the Minister of State to raise that at Government.