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- Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)
Thomas Gould: We are telling the truth.
- Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)
Thomas Gould: People cannot turn on their electricity because of the cost of it.
- Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)
Thomas Gould: We will be downloading the videos from last year and putting them up on YouTube after.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Compulsory Purchase Orders (8 Oct 2025)
Thomas Gould: 3. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the number of compulsory purchase orders, CPOs, completed under the CPO activation programme and an update on the long-promised legislation to reform the CPO process as recommended by the Law Reform Commission. [54229/25]
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Compulsory Purchase Orders (8 Oct 2025)
Thomas Gould: I cannot believe the data is not available. It was supposed to be released in the second quarter of the year and here we are in October 2025 without the data. The Minister said things are going well and progressing but where is the proof? For months, I have submitted a parliamentary question every two or three weeks looking for information on dereliction, such as how many sites are...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Compulsory Purchase Orders (8 Oct 2025)
Thomas Gould: I want to make that point.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Compulsory Purchase Orders (8 Oct 2025)
Thomas Gould: Will the Minister of State give that commitment today?
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Compulsory Purchase Orders (8 Oct 2025)
Thomas Gould: Today is World Vacant Homes Day and in a minute members of the Government will be outside having their photograph taken. The hypocrisy of that is unbelievable. Things are so bad that Fine Gael backbenchers introduced Private Members' legislation in July to try to force the Minister's hand on the matter of CPOs being used. Some Government backbenchers do not believe or have faith in the...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Compulsory Purchase Orders (8 Oct 2025)
Thomas Gould: They are not working.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Compulsory Purchase Orders (8 Oct 2025)
Thomas Gould: In three years' time. There will not be-----
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Compulsory Purchase Orders (8 Oct 2025)
Thomas Gould: When will it be delivered?
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Compulsory Purchase Orders (8 Oct 2025)
Thomas Gould: Will the Minister of State walk with me?
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Compulsory Purchase Orders (8 Oct 2025)
Thomas Gould: I will organise that.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Compulsory Purchase Orders (8 Oct 2025)
Thomas Gould: Perhaps Deputy Hearne will come with us.
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (8 Oct 2025)
Thomas Gould: 38. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the allocation for 2026 tenant in situ scheme will be released to local authorities; and the amount which it will be. [53200/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Government Reform (8 Oct 2025)
Thomas Gould: 52. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the restoration of town councils. [53201/25]
- Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)
Thomas Gould: They do not want to.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (7 Oct 2025)
Thomas Gould: 235. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware that children in a school (details supplied) still have no start date. [53943/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (7 Oct 2025)
Thomas Gould: 236. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 317 of 23 September 2025, the number of children who have availed of the exceptional interim grant in Cork; the reasons this has not been offered to all parents; and when an offer will be made. [53945/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Compulsory Purchase Orders (7 Oct 2025)
Thomas Gould: 294. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the targets for the CPO activation programme in 2024; and the numbers achieved by local authority, in tabular form. [53316/25]