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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (23 Jun 2022)

Thomas Gould: 7. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the targets the vacant homes unit in his Department is working towards to tackle vacancy and dereliction. [32972/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (23 Jun 2022)

Thomas Gould: I will ask the Minister about the targets towards which the vacant homes unit in his Department is working, to tackle vacancy and dereliction.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (23 Jun 2022)

Thomas Gould: On 5 May, the Minister of State confirmed to me through a response to a parliamentary question that he had no targets for social housing voids and that local authorities should set them. On 26 April, the Minister confirmed to me, again through a response to a parliamentary question, that he had not instructed local authorities to set targets for any area of vacancy, either voids or private,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (23 Jun 2022)

Thomas Gould: What I heard from what the Minister of State said was that having 90,000 vacant houses is not an issue because that is only 4.5% of the overall stock of housing. That is not good enough for a person stuck in the middle of a housing crisis who is looking at vacant and derelict houses in every city, town and village. In 2018, the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, referenced voids and said: ...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (23 Jun 2022)

Thomas Gould: We can send the quotation on to the Minister. Here we are in 2022, four years later. Deputy Darragh O'Brien is the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage and he cannot even fix the problem he called a scandal four years ago.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ports Policy (23 Jun 2022)

Thomas Gould: 108. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to an international armed soldier presence on a ship in Cork city on 16 June 2022. [32977/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (23 Jun 2022)

Thomas Gould: 422. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on a business proposal submitted by a club (details supplied). [33375/22]

Insurance Reform: Statements (22 Jun 2022)

Thomas Gould: I recognise and thank my party colleague, Deputy Doherty, for the Trojan work he has done to help reduce insurance premiums and to deliver real insurance reform. Deputy Doherty has led this campaign and this call and I hope the Government will take on board the proposals and solutions of Deputy Doherty and Sinn Féin to help speed up and deliver insurance reform. The Government is...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tax Code (22 Jun 2022)

Thomas Gould: 21. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered a VAT reduction in retrofitting projects. [33141/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (22 Jun 2022)

Thomas Gould: 27. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the spending in 2021 on Sports Inclusion Grants; and the spending per stream of the grant and the cohort each stream is aimed at supporting. [33117/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (22 Jun 2022)

Thomas Gould: 53. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the expected date for the sale completion of the first phase of Boherboy Road in Cork city. [33132/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (22 Jun 2022)

Thomas Gould: 55. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of affordable houses, by project, in Cork city to be delivered in 2022. [33134/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (22 Jun 2022)

Thomas Gould: 57. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is satisfied that affordable housing schemes in Cork meet the criteria for affordability; and if he will outline these criteria. [33136/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (22 Jun 2022)

Thomas Gould: 54. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department will support local authorities that are encountering increased costs due to construction inflation, particularly in situations in which original central Government grant funding is no longer sufficient. [33133/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (22 Jun 2022)

Thomas Gould: 56. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of houses to be built by Cork City Council and by Approved Housing Bodies in Cork, respectively, in 2022. [33135/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (22 Jun 2022)

Thomas Gould: 58. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding given by his Department to local authorities to tackle dereliction. [33137/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (22 Jun 2022)

Thomas Gould: 61. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of whole-time equivalent vacant homes officers by local authority in tabular form. [33140/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Sites (22 Jun 2022)

Thomas Gould: 59. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the derelict sites levies collected by each local authority in 2021; the amount levied; the number of sites on each register and the cumulative amount owed by local authority, in tabular form. [33138/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Sites (22 Jun 2022)

Thomas Gould: 60. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of units by local authorities that his Department estimates to be vacant and or derelict. [33139/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Family Support Services (22 Jun 2022)

Thomas Gould: 143. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the funding that was made available for family support services in Budget 2021 was distributed through a tendering process; and the reason the decision was made to engage in competitive tendering for these services. [33127/22]