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- Vacant Council Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jun 2025)
Thomas Gould: That is not true.
- Vacant Council Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jun 2025)
Thomas Gould: That is not true. That is not true.
- Vacant Council Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jun 2025)
Thomas Gould: The Government will not give the local authority the money.
- Vacant Council Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jun 2025)
Thomas Gould: I will bring forward a solution. Right across this Chamber, people have outlined how there are vacant boarded up houses in every constituency. We are criticised by those in Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, who ask where our solution is. This is the solution. It is a genuine attempt to make a difference to hundreds if not thousands of families but the Government has dismissed it. The most...
- Vacant Council Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jun 2025)
Thomas Gould: Níl.
- Vacant Council Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jun 2025)
Thomas Gould: Sorry, I thought it was the Government amendment.
- Vacant Council Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jun 2025)
Thomas Gould: In relation to our-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Report of Housing Commission: Housing Commission (10 Jun 2025)
Thomas Gould: My first question is for Professor Norris. I have a big interest in social housing. It is important that we build social housing, especially for a lot of the people I represent. At the same time as the housing crisis, I have seen a neglect in housing maintenance and a lack of funding for housing that already exists. This has resulted in people having to live in terrible conditions where...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Report of Housing Commission: Housing Commission (10 Jun 2025)
Thomas Gould: I support that suggestion because landlords must deal with the RTB, which is only right and proper, and then local authorities are leaving people in houses, which are owned by the State, in unbelievable conditions. Last night, I got a phone call from a man who had water pouring through his roof and down through the light fittings in the house. He told me that the council has called out to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Report of Housing Commission: Housing Commission (10 Jun 2025)
Thomas Gould: I appreciate the honesty. My next questions are for Mr. O'Flynn and Michael and I probably disagree politically. The report calls for a radical reset. Today, Michael has said that housing is an emergency, needs to be treated like an emergency with the introduction of legislation and the oversight directive needs to be implemented right now. They were his words.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2025)
Thomas Gould: What about tenants in situ, or the tenant in situ scheme? Where has that money gone?
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Staff (10 Jun 2025)
Thomas Gould: 402. To ask the Minister for Finance the current number of staff responsible for the collection of the vacant homes tax by grade level and the overall wage cost for the unit. [29529/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (10 Jun 2025)
Thomas Gould: 584. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware that a school (details supplied) did not receive sanction for a special class for the upcoming school year. [29840/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Budgets (10 Jun 2025)
Thomas Gould: 794. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the overall budget assigned to planned maintenance and stock surveys in each of the past five years. [29528/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Budgets (10 Jun 2025)
Thomas Gould: 795. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average cost of a stock survey per unit. [29530/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (10 Jun 2025)
Thomas Gould: 796. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of the next tranche of URDF. [29531/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Staff (10 Jun 2025)
Thomas Gould: 797. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of staff currently in the vacant homes unit in his Department. [29532/25]
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (12 Jun 2025)
Thomas Gould: In 2016 a new prison was opened in The Glen in Cork and the old prison was closed down. A commitment was made at the time by the Tánaiste's Government, which he was a Minister in, and by the Irish Prison Service that the old prison would not be reopened and would be used by the community for education and training, or maybe as a museum. The republican Thomas Kent was shot by firing...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (12 Jun 2025)
Thomas Gould: In Greystones?