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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Vacant Properties (28 Sep 2021)

Thomas Gould: I feel as though I am at born-again revival listening to Deputies from the Government parties talking about thousands of vacant and derelict properties. The official figure is more than 92,000. In Cork city and county - I thank Deputy O'Connor for raising the question - there are more than 9,000 vacant properties. The Minister indicated that he has been travelling throughout the State...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Vacant Properties (28 Sep 2021)

Thomas Gould: I gave the then Minister, Deputy Coveney, the solutions five years ago.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (28 Sep 2021)

Thomas Gould: I find the Minister's responses funny.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (28 Sep 2021)

Thomas Gould: I am relaxed.

Housing for All: Statements (28 Sep 2021)

Thomas Gould: That was confidence and supply.

Housing for All: Statements (28 Sep 2021)

Thomas Gould: The Minister calls this policy Housing for All. It will provide housing for some but not for ordinary people. It will provide housing for developers, landowners, speculators, investment and vulture funds, and greedy landlords but not for ordinary people who are trying to put a roof over their heads and pay a rent or mortgage that is sustainable. The Minister is there with his partners in...

Housing for All: Statements (28 Sep 2021)

Thomas Gould: Will he come with me because he must not have been looking at where the dereliction was.

Housing for All: Statements (28 Sep 2021)

Thomas Gould: The Minister is sitting there in his ivory tower with his Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and speculator buddies while we are on the ground with ordinary people who are suffering. That is the difference. The Minister spoke about ideology, and there is a problem with it because the Government believes in looking after the well-to-do and the wealthy developers. People do not have homes, they are...

Housing for All: Statements (28 Sep 2021)

Thomas Gould: They are the Government's rules.

Housing for All: Statements (28 Sep 2021)

Thomas Gould: We do not.

Housing for All: Statements (28 Sep 2021)

Thomas Gould: Nothing was built.

Housing for All: Statements (28 Sep 2021)

Thomas Gould: Stop, stop.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Derelict Sites (28 Sep 2021)

Thomas Gould: 118. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding given to Cork City Council to address dereliction given the high dereliction levels in the city. [46404/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (28 Sep 2021)

Thomas Gould: 179. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the turnaround time for vacant council houses in Cork city has now reached 64 weeks; and his plans to work with the local authority to reduce same. [46403/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (28 Sep 2021)

Thomas Gould: 237. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if details of the destination of waste shipped from waste management facilities in Cork city will be provided. [46695/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Sep 2021)

Thomas Gould: 719. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1184 of 9 September 2021, when new guidelines for addiction recovery group meetings will be published; if these guidelines will take account of the current restrictions imposed in an office environment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46261/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Water Services Separation Bill 2021: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (28 Sep 2021)

Thomas Gould: In respect of the Department's engagement with WRC, are the people attending the WRC just there to observe or will they be decision-makers who will, it is hoped, help resolve the workers' rights issues?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Water Services Separation Bill 2021: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (28 Sep 2021)

Thomas Gould: In 2015, Irish Water introduced a decade-long plan starting with a public consultation to source a new water supply for Dublin in the midlands. Given that the process of separating Irish Water was not meant to happen until 2025, will the separation impact on and delay this process?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Water Services Separation Bill 2021: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (28 Sep 2021)

Thomas Gould: Should the referendum on water not have been brought forward before this new company? Surely a referendum will have profound implications for this new company. Has the Government not made a mistake in not bringing forward the referendum first and then dealing with this issue?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Water Services Separation Bill 2021: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (28 Sep 2021)

Thomas Gould: I believe the referendum should have been dealt with before we got to this stage. A number of Government Deputies and Senators made the point that a lot of mistakes were made with the setting up of Irish Water. If ever there was a comment that did not reflect the complete disaster that was the setting up of Irish Water and the water charges that were implemented, it is that. I wish to...