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National Recovery and Resilience Plan: Statements (2 Jun 2021)

Thomas Gould: It is all well and good for the Minister and the Government to talk about what they are doing for the State and to slap themselves on the back. Unfortunately, this announcement of a recovery and resilience fund does nothing to reopen the out-of-hours GP service for the people of the Cork North Central constituency, SouthDoc Blackpool. Three times this year SouthDoc has told the people of...

Traveller Accommodation: Statements (3 Jun 2021)

Thomas Gould: Last week, the Ombudsman for Children published a scathing 72-page report into the conditions in which children are living at the Spring Lane site in the heart of my constituency. It is a site with which I am familiar and I have tried to do a lot of work on this issue in the past. Spring Lane was originally opened in 1989 as a ten-bay halting site but it was overcrowded from day one as 16...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Provision (3 Jun 2021)

Thomas Gould: Today the ESRI published a report detailing the need for the State to take a new approach to housing. The approach outlined is to borrow money and build houses. Sinn Féin has been calling for this strategy for years. While the ESRI's calculations are on the conservative side, it still found that the most effective and viable option to solving the crisis is to borrow and to build. ...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Provision (3 Jun 2021)

Thomas Gould: The Minister of State accuses me and Sinn Féin of quoting the ESRI when it suits us, but is this not what he is doing? The ESRI stated that the Government needs to double its expenditure on housing if we are to solve the housing crisis. That is what it stated. Does the Minister of State not accept that as a bona fide fact, or does he say that the ESRI and Sinn Féin are incorrect?...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Provision (3 Jun 2021)

Thomas Gould: On a point of order, in January 2020 Fianna Fáil councillors voted against social housing in Cork.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Provision (3 Jun 2021)

Thomas Gould: One of them was the Taoiseach's brother.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Provision (3 Jun 2021)

Thomas Gould: Ask the Taoiseach's brother how he voted.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Provision (3 Jun 2021)

Thomas Gould: Answer the question on housing please.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Provision (3 Jun 2021)

Thomas Gould: The question is on housing.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (3 Jun 2021)

Thomas Gould: 30. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of the legislation resulting from the recommendations of the Duffy-Cahill report. [30225/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Workplace Relations Commission (3 Jun 2021)

Thomas Gould: 48. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of legislation to allow Workplace Relations Commission proceedings to take place in public. [30224/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Proposed Legislation (3 Jun 2021)

Thomas Gould: 146. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the Gambling Control Bill 2018. [30220/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (3 Jun 2021)

Thomas Gould: 270. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to recent reports that Cork County Council is significantly underfunded; and his plans to address the issue. [30348/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (3 Jun 2021)

Thomas Gould: 274. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the rent contribution agreement as required to be signed by HAP tenants has statutory footing; if so, the location same can be found; and if not, if the document differs by local authority. [30404/21]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (25 May 2021)

Thomas Gould: On the Minister's point about delaying, I will use the example of the LDA's site at St. Kevin's Hospital in Cork. I, my Sinn Féin colleagues and other people in the Opposition proposed the development of this site back in 2013. The site is being developed now by the LDA but we still do not have a breakdown of how much is going to be affordable, affordable cost-rental or purchase,...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (25 May 2021)

Thomas Gould: As Deputies Ó Broin and Boyd Barrett have stated, the reason for these amendments is our concern that public land is being siphoned off to the private sector. We want to deliver truly affordable homes for people. I am dealing with a large amount of people every week who do not qualify for the social housing list and who cannot get a mortgage. These people are trapped in the middle...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 May 2021)

Thomas Gould: Is there any chance I could come in before Deputy Ó Broin. I am actually in the convention centre now. I will be speaking in the Chamber in the centre in a few minutes. If a vote is called on these amendments, I am going to have to fly over to Leinster House. The whole operation of trying to speak in the Chamber - I get limited speaking time as it is because of the restrictions - has...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 May 2021)

Thomas Gould: Unfortunately, I missed the vote because I was travelling back from the convention centre, which was very disappointing for me, and it is something we must talk about at another stage. On these amendments, I support my colleagues, Deputies Ó Broin and O'Callaghan, in the comments they made. We take on board what the Minister said. I hope he will take on board the recommendations...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jun 2021)

Thomas Gould: It is as simple as this. The Minister and the Government have to recognise this now. It is unbelievable that we are listening this morning to comments from Government Deputies who do not accept the facts. My colleague, Deputy Ó Broin, our party and other parties on the left have been calling for a massive housebuilding programme for some time. That is the only thing that can solve...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jun 2021)

Thomas Gould: -----because a HAP property is not proper social housing. There is no guarantee of tenure. People have no confidence in the HAP scheme but when there is nothing else there they have to use it. It would be a lot better for both the State and the people trapped in this housing emergency for us to spend that €500 million. Instead of giving it to landlords and making them rich, we...