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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Vacant Properties (27 Oct 2022)

Thomas Gould: 262. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has met with higher education institutions to discuss derelict or vacant buildings in their ownership. [54053/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Vacant Properties (27 Oct 2022)

Thomas Gould: 273. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of vacant and derelict buildings respectively by county in the ownership of the Probation Services, the Irish Prison Service and her Department in tabular form. [54056/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments (27 Oct 2022)

Thomas Gould: 300. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe for temporary facilities expected to be utilised to house the emergency department in the Mercy Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54040/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vacant Properties (27 Oct 2022)

Thomas Gould: 303. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacant and derelict buildings owned by the HSE and his Department respectively by each CHO in tabular form. [54054/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vacant Properties (27 Oct 2022)

Thomas Gould: 304. To ask the Minister for Health if he has met with the HSE to discuss derelict or vacant buildings in their ownership. [54055/22]

Development (Emergency Electricity Generation) Bill 2022: Second Stage (26 Oct 2022)

Thomas Gould: The weekend before last, there were blackouts right across Cork city. We still do not know the reason. It was a real wake-up call for people in Cork to realise the Government has failed to secure energy despite warnings. People are concerned. Rushing this Bill through the Dáil is fooling no one. Once again, the Government, having ignored the warnings, is now trying to react at the...

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2022: Second Stage (26 Oct 2022)

Thomas Gould: I am disappointed with the legislation that has been brought forward. While we support it and recognise there is a need for an emergency ban on evictions, and there are parts of the legislation we welcome, the Minister has missed an opportunity to go further, which he should have taken. Child homelessness in Cork has increased by 40% in the past 12 months. Our homeless figures are now at...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (26 Oct 2022)

Thomas Gould: Not the war; the housing crisis was coming.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (26 Oct 2022)

Thomas Gould: Confidence and supply.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (26 Oct 2022)

Thomas Gould: But you supported their strategy.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (26 Oct 2022)

Thomas Gould: They are hitting all their targets.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (26 Oct 2022)

Thomas Gould: The Government party leaders met with senior Ministers early this week on the escalating crisis in emergency housing provision, which has been deepened by the war in Ukraine, but the truth is that it has been years in the making and a result of successive governments turning their face or not supporting public housing provided directly by the State. In the past 12 months, child homelessness...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Northern Ireland (26 Oct 2022)

Thomas Gould: I commend the work of the All-Island Women's Forum and its commitment to fully inclusive engagement. One of the outcomes of its work is its highlighting of the urgent need to adopt a joint approach to tackling gender-based violence in all its forms. While the Departments of Justice in the North and the South share best practice in tackling domestic, sexual and gender-based violence, there...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Functions (26 Oct 2022)

Thomas Gould: Both Deputy McDonald and I have raised the north inner-city drug and alcohol task force on multiple occasions with the Taoiseach over the past year and a half. Progress has been glacial, even by the Department of Health's standards. As a result, the task force in effect remains shut down. This represents a wider shift away from evidence-based community addiction responses. Fine Gael...

Social and Affordable Housing Supply: Motion [Private Members] (26 Oct 2022)

Thomas Gould: Recently at the housing committee we have had local authorities in to give us an update on the Government's housing plan. Each week we hear the news from the Government that local authorities are meeting their targets, so you might think building enough social and affordable housing to meet the need is happening, but it is not. Not one local authority that has been in says that if they meet...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (26 Oct 2022)

Thomas Gould: 89. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has received a progress update on the implementation of the blue green cities' initiative in the southern region; and his views on the matter, particularly in relation to progress in the Cork city area. [53756/22]

Finance Bill 2022: Second Stage (25 Oct 2022)

Thomas Gould: There are 166,000 vacant homes in the State. The Government’s plan to tackle this is to bring in a levy of 0.3%. It looks like a joke, but it is so serious that it would be wrong to do so. The Minister has completely failed to tackle vacancy. Once again, Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and now their partners, the Green Party, cosy up to the vulture funds, the land hoarders and the...

Finance Bill 2022: Second Stage (25 Oct 2022)

Thomas Gould: Glanmire needs protection and the money must be delivered.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Oct 2022)

Thomas Gould: Many of my constituents and of the Taoiseach were devastated to hear the news that the new elective hospital in Cork will not be operational until 2028. Last September, promises were made that that hospital would be open in 2024. Hospitals in Cork are in crisis right now. Tens of thousands are on waiting lists. People wait days on trolleys. To wait another six years is not feasible. We...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Oct 2022)

Thomas Gould: But there will be operations carried out.