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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Passport Services (23 Jun 2022)

Thomas Gould: The Minister had many questions to deal with, but I was looking for more specific information for Cork. The figures I have show that nearly 2,600 passport applications were awaiting processing in January and that this figure rose to more than 9,000 in May. I would like to get an update regarding where we are now because my office has been inundated with people contacting me about passport...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Passport Services (23 Jun 2022)

Thomas Gould: The number of passport applications coming in from the North just goes to show the need for a passport office in the Six Counties. I ask the Minister, the Department and the Government to look at that need. As for the Minister's comments about a new passport office in Cork, I suggest that if it is not to be in the city centre, it be on the northside. The reason for that is that a study...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Passport Services (23 Jun 2022)

Thomas Gould: Is the Minister looking at an office?

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tax Code (22 Jun 2022)

Thomas Gould: 21. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered a VAT reduction in retrofitting projects. [33141/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (22 Jun 2022)

Thomas Gould: 27. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the spending in 2021 on Sports Inclusion Grants; and the spending per stream of the grant and the cohort each stream is aimed at supporting. [33117/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (22 Jun 2022)

Thomas Gould: 53. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the expected date for the sale completion of the first phase of Boherboy Road in Cork city. [33132/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (22 Jun 2022)

Thomas Gould: 55. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of affordable houses, by project, in Cork city to be delivered in 2022. [33134/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (22 Jun 2022)

Thomas Gould: 57. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is satisfied that affordable housing schemes in Cork meet the criteria for affordability; and if he will outline these criteria. [33136/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (22 Jun 2022)

Thomas Gould: 54. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department will support local authorities that are encountering increased costs due to construction inflation, particularly in situations in which original central Government grant funding is no longer sufficient. [33133/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (22 Jun 2022)

Thomas Gould: 56. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of houses to be built by Cork City Council and by Approved Housing Bodies in Cork, respectively, in 2022. [33135/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (22 Jun 2022)

Thomas Gould: 58. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding given by his Department to local authorities to tackle dereliction. [33137/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (22 Jun 2022)

Thomas Gould: 61. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of whole-time equivalent vacant homes officers by local authority in tabular form. [33140/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Sites (22 Jun 2022)

Thomas Gould: 59. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the derelict sites levies collected by each local authority in 2021; the amount levied; the number of sites on each register and the cumulative amount owed by local authority, in tabular form. [33138/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Sites (22 Jun 2022)

Thomas Gould: 60. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of units by local authorities that his Department estimates to be vacant and or derelict. [33139/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Family Support Services (22 Jun 2022)

Thomas Gould: 143. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the funding that was made available for family support services in Budget 2021 was distributed through a tendering process; and the reason the decision was made to engage in competitive tendering for these services. [33127/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (22 Jun 2022)

Thomas Gould: 199. To ask the Minister for Health the annual cost per bed of the Keltoi facility when it was open. [33106/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (22 Jun 2022)

Thomas Gould: 200. To ask the Minister for Health the annual cost per bed of providing a State-owned addiction residential rehabilitation bed. [33107/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (22 Jun 2022)

Thomas Gould: 201. To ask the Minister for Health the capital cost per bed of providing a State-owned addiction residential rehabilitation service. [33108/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (22 Jun 2022)

Thomas Gould: 202. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has conducted a cost-benefit analysis of opening State-run residential rehabilitation facilities. [33109/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (22 Jun 2022)

Thomas Gould: 203. To ask the Minister for Health the annual cost per bed of a State-owned community detox bed. [33110/22]