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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)
Thomas Gould: Earlier on, I said that just under 1,400 affordable houses were delivered. The Minister is correct; 1,800 of the 4,100 target were delivered. I just wished to correct the record on that. On that issue, the Minister mentioned Lancaster Gate in Cork, which has been a very successful cost-rental scheme. I have met people who live there. I give credit where credit is due and that is a very...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)
Thomas Gould: We would change it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)
Thomas Gould: We would change it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)
Thomas Gould: What about the dereliction? I asked the Minister four questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)
Thomas Gould: I asked the Minister four questions. I have only a minute left. Will the Minister answer one of my questions? I will pose another question to him now? My time is running out.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)
Thomas Gould: May I give the Minister a constructive solution?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)
Thomas Gould: Last year, the Minister's Department only funded 85 voids. These are the local authority houses that are boarded up in every local authority area. There are more than 500 in Cork. Why does the Minister not fund the local authorities? I come from an area where there is social housing. Does the Minister know the damage that is done by the presence of boarded-up houses? It results in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)
Thomas Gould: However, some 1,000 families joined the list.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)
Thomas Gould: These are the facts.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)
Thomas Gould: I do.
- Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Strategies (25 Apr 2023)
Thomas Gould: 82. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the role her Department is taking in the National Drugs Strategy. [19279/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (25 Apr 2023)
Thomas Gould: 330. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of HAP and RAS tenancies respectively targeted for delivery by Cork City Council in each of the years 2022-2026, in tabular form. [19304/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (25 Apr 2023)
Thomas Gould: 331. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of acquisitions targeted for delivery by Cork City Council in each of the years 2022-2026, in tabular form. [19305/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (25 Apr 2023)
Thomas Gould: 354. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the cost of disability payment was extended to those on CE schemes. [19021/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (25 Apr 2023)
Thomas Gould: 412. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the crime figure statistics from each of the Garda stations in Cork city by category in March 2022 and March 2023. [19192/23]
- Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)
Thomas Gould: Organised crime causes heartache and misery for communities. I stand full square in my support for them and the gardaí who stand up to these criminals every day of the week. We have to get to grips with the scourge of organised crime. Everything possible must be done to tackle all the causes so we can grasp it at the root because communities need protection. Vulnerable people need to...
- Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)
Thomas Gould: And then they leave.
- Organised Crime: Statements (20 Apr 2023)
Thomas Gould: You are asking the Minister of State.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Apr 2023)
Thomas Gould: I will raise a case from the heart of the Tánaiste's constituency in the Douglas-Grange area, of a family who has lived in a property with the support of the housing assistance payment, HAP, for nine years. It includes three children, of whom the youngest is five years old. The family has received a notice to quit and were to be out on 31 January. After some back and forth with the...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Apr 2023)
Thomas Gould: There-----