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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)

Thomas Gould: I would say that a rate of 0.3% would not discourage anyone when property values are increasing every year. With regard to derelict sites, should a team be put together within the Department, similar to the vacant homes unit that would specifically target dereliction, and which would tie in, in the same way that Ms Timmons has described, with the vacancy unit that is with all local authorities?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)

Thomas Gould: I say this because we know from the figures that there is €12 million in outstanding derelict sites levy charges from last year. We also know for a fact that none of the local authorities are returning accurate figures for dereliction in their local authorities. Some local authorities are performing slightly better than others. This is legislation that goes back to 1990, and what we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)

Thomas Gould: The current position is we have no-one responsible for it. Call me old-fashioned. I made the point to the local authorities when they came in here that if I illegally park and I get a ticket then I must pay it. But what if I have a derelict building, as there are all over Cork city? There is a derelict building on North Main Street in the dead centre of the city that had to be secured...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)

Thomas Gould: To follow on from Senator Cummins, local authorities have come here and said that the €60,000 is not enough for many local authorities to get them to buy in in the way that Waterford has bought in. While the Department is reviewing that, it is certainly something that could make a difference to get local authorities to buy in. On a point we touched on earlier, there was a story in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)

Thomas Gould: Will they be stand-alone officers? What we saw in the past, when funding was provided, was that a person would have three or four jobs, and one of them would be that job. I am talking about stand-alone personnel to deal with this.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)

Thomas Gould: On staffing, we need to look at the tenantin situscheme. I came across a terrible case last Friday where a lady got a phone call at 3 p.m. to say the local authority was looking at purchasing the house. She was leaving the house on the Saturday and going into a family hub because for six months she was waiting to get onto the housing list. By the time she got onto the list, the landlord had...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)

Thomas Gould: As I said, I came from Knocknaheeny, but I now live in Gurranabraher which is just below it. It was built 85 years ago. It was one of the old Cork Corporation social housing schemes. Why are local authorities not being mandated to deliver direct build? Why are local authorities not hiring staff and building their own? That is what we did in Cork and right across the country. We need a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)

Thomas Gould: I know. I live on Cathedral Road and that was built-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)

Thomas Gould: No. Cork Corporation had workers. The old corporation hired carpenters, plumbers and painters directly. That is what we need to get back to.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (18 Apr 2023)

Thomas Gould: 183. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if grants are available for businesses to install solar or PV panels. [16645/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (18 Apr 2023)

Thomas Gould: 256. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if grants are available to businesses for the installation of EV chargers. [16646/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Grant Payments (18 Apr 2023)

Thomas Gould: 732. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of adaptation grants processed in Cork in each of the past five years for social housing, in tabular form. [16741/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Grant Payments (18 Apr 2023)

Thomas Gould: 735. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the increase in adaptation grant allocation for social housing given construction inflation by local authority, in tabular form. [16744/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Grant Payments (18 Apr 2023)

Thomas Gould: 733. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of adaptation grants processed in Cork in each of the last five years for private housing, in tabular form. [16742/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Grant Payments (18 Apr 2023)

Thomas Gould: 734. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of people currently approved but awaiting an adaptation grant in Cork. [16743/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (18 Apr 2023)

Thomas Gould: 736. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether local authorities can apply for funding to build extensions to social housing due to overcrowding. [16745/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (18 Apr 2023)

Thomas Gould: 737. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the 100 homes due for retrofitting in Churchfield, Cork and the addresses of these homes. [16746/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Correspondence (18 Apr 2023)

Thomas Gould: 812. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether officials in his Department contacted Cork City Council with preliminary RTB data prior to its publication. [17456/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Correspondence (18 Apr 2023)

Thomas Gould: 813. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether officials in his Department contacted any local authority with preliminary RTB data prior to its publication. [17457/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (18 Apr 2023)

Thomas Gould: 1394. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the appointment of a new GP to a surgery (details supplied) in Blarney, County Cork. [16528/23]