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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Thomas Gould: On the 15,500 that Ms Crimin is talking about there, she said some of those were regularised. What does she mean by that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Thomas Gould: Of the 15,500, do we know how many of them were tenancies that were regularised or how many of them finished that-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Thomas Gould: It could be quite possible that a lot of people, because of this, received notices to quit or actually had to leave.

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (2 Jul 2024)

Thomas Gould: 106. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the actions he will take to improve pay and conditions in the Defence Forces given that one in four members quit the force in the past 27 months. [28190/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (2 Jul 2024)

Thomas Gould: 253. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applications made under the first-home scheme by tenants with a notice to quit; and the number approved. [27828/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Electricity Supply Board (2 Jul 2024)

Thomas Gould: 255. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware that electricity reconnections are causing delays in the return to use of vacant council-owned homes. [27869/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (2 Jul 2024)

Thomas Gould: 298. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if drones are being considered for An Garda Síochána. [27825/24]

Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (3 Jul 2024)

Thomas Gould: I welcome the opportunity to contribute. I begin by calling out the actions of the man who assaulted Natasha O'Brien, the man who gave him a reference and the man who decided beating a woman unconscious was not worthy of a custodial sentence. The Tánaiste said yesterday we need to see a change in culture to end domestic, sexual and gender-based violence and he is right. That change of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Thomas Gould: What I have seen in my time is that, to get around RPZs, tenants are given notices to quit because their rent might be, let us say, less than what other people would be paying locally. Then the landlord paints the apartment and let it again. I know of cases in Cork, and one building specifically, where the landlord evicted most of the people there because their rent was so low. He did it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Thomas Gould: That is the point I made earlier about the 109. I could think of 30 or 40 cases in my constituency alone where that has happened in recent years. That is why I urge the RTB to increase that figure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Thomas Gould: When people get the notice to quit and leave, they feel there is no point. They are out of the house and moved on. They feel they are gone and the landlord gets away scot-free. I encourage people to contact the RTB and give it the information.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Thomas Gould: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Thomas Gould: I have 14 more questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Thomas Gould: What we see now when people get notices to quit is that they feel they will be out with nowhere to go. I have heard stories of where local authorities have advised people who have reached their date to be out to overstay. I personally know many people who have overstayed, are overstaying or will overstay if they cannot find alternative accommodation. When a person overstays, the landlord...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Thomas Gould: Has the RTB no idea how many of those it is dealing with? The point Mr. Keegan makes is valid. If there were supply, at least the tenant could then move on to somewhere else, whether rental, cost-rental, affordable or social housing, but if there is a lack of supply, it creates these issues. I deal with people who really respect their landlords and feel their landlords have been fair to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Thomas Gould: If there is a good landlord who has given notice to quit and has done everything right, with a tenant who has done everything right, paid his or her bills and been a good tenant, there is a dispute where they should not be a dispute because there is a lack of supply. I am noticing that people are overstaying, waiting for the landlord to take them to court, and then a month or a number of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Thomas Gould: I thank the Chair and witnesses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Thomas Gould: I am not done but I think it is fair-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (4 Jul 2024)

Thomas Gould: 11. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding provided to maintain the Parnell Place bus station in Cork; and for an update on plans to renovate same. [28578/24]