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- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2021) Thomas Gould: At a recent budget meeting, €1.5 million in cuts was mentioned. As the Minister knows, the problem for local authorities is that they have to deliver a balanced budget. They expect the money to come in afterwards. When they pass a budget, it must be balanced. I look forward to going back to Sinn Féin councillors in Cork City Council to tell them that there will be no cuts for...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2021) Thomas Gould: Councillors did not do that. This came from the finance department in Cork City Council. I will make sure our councillors raise the matter and that the finance department contacts the Minister's Department. If he has said everything is fine, I will trust him on that. The derelict sites levy is not being collected. A total of €12.4 million should have been collected in levies...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2021) Thomas Gould: I want to clarify something------
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2021) Thomas Gould: The LDA is managing the St. Kevin's site. We still do not know what the affordability of the site will be.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2021) Thomas Gould: Can the Minister tell me-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2021) Thomas Gould: -----what the cost of an affordable house in St. Kevin's will be?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2021) Thomas Gould: About 20 homes become available in Cork every month. The 241 voids to which the Minister referred are simply units that were returned during the year. I raised this matter when I was a councillor six or seven years ago. There is no budget in housing for returning voids that come up every month. This is something that we should consider.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2021) Thomas Gould: I will give credit where credit is due. The next time the Minister is in Cork and meets Ann Doherty and Brian Geaney, could he meet me? I will walk around and show him derelict and vacant sites and voids. He can tell me whether things are positive.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban Regeneration: Discussion (14 Dec 2021)
Thomas Gould: I thank witnesses for their contributions. This is a really serious issue. From my time in Cork City Council for 12 years and now in the Dáil, I think it is a scandal. My own constituency of Cork North-Central is blighted from the inner city areas to the rural areas with dereliction and vacancy. Since I have come to Dublin for the past almost two years as a Deputy, the amount of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban Regeneration: Discussion (14 Dec 2021)
Thomas Gould: I completely agree with the points Ms Sherry made. I thank her for all her work. Can Professor Murphy respond to my question?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban Regeneration: Discussion (14 Dec 2021)
Thomas Gould: I thank the witness. People are coming to my office every week who cannot rent houses or get social housing. People are being given notices to quit, evictions and they look around their communities and look at vacant properties that could be turned into housing. It is a scandal. Local authorities are not being encouraged nor funded by the Government to do this. I do not think it should...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban Regeneration: Discussion (14 Dec 2021)
Thomas Gould: Why has Waterford City and County Council never issued any derelict site levies ever? According to the figures I have, Dublin City Council has €3.5 million of derelict site levies outstanding and it has only collected €142,000. Over €1 million of derelict site levies have not been collected. Will someone explain those figures? The derelict site levy should be issued...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jan 2022)
Thomas Gould: That is not a problem, Chairman. I thank everyone for coming today and for speaking to us. I have a couple of questions. As was just outlined, we conducted a survey on sustainable transport in my constituency of Cork North-Central. The survey found that 74% of people felt that it was not safe to cycle in our constituency. It also found that 64% of people noticed that the cycle lanes...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jan 2022)
Thomas Gould: I thank the witnesses. As someone who lives in and represents the area, everything they said makes complete sense. I have another question for the representatives of the TU Dublin. The research they carried out in Blackrock sounds very interesting. I know that we have very similar initiatives in Cork with on-street dining, pedestrianisation and improved public spaces. Cork City Council...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jan 2022)
Thomas Gould: I thank the Chairman.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jan 2022)
Thomas Gould: I have a few questions so I will try to be brief.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jan 2022)
Thomas Gould: Mr. Donovan from Cork Cycling Campaign spoke earlier about changing attitudes, changing the message, trying to get people to buy into that and - Chairman, you touched on this - changing people's behaviour, their attitudes and the culture of society at present regarding the car. Society is about the car instead of it being about walking, cycling and using public transport. Mr. Donovan...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jan 2022)
Thomas Gould: I thank Ms Harvey. I had a question for Dr. D'Arcy on shared bikes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jan 2022)
Thomas Gould: I made another point on vacancy and dereliction. I am not sure if someone can answer my question on urban regeneration.
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Policy (19 Jan 2022)
Thomas Gould: 123. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the procedure in circumstances in which it appears that households are burning smoky coal. [63475/21]