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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Passport Services (30 Sep 2021)

Thomas Gould: 49. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to address passport backlogs in County Cork. [47114/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Appointments (30 Sep 2021)

Thomas Gould: 6. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of the process of securing a special envoy for freedom of expression. [47113/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Appointments (30 Sep 2021)

Thomas Gould: I was looking for an update on the status of the process of securing a special envoy for freedom of expression.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Appointments (30 Sep 2021)

Thomas Gould: While there is no specific number of LGBTQIA community members in this State, the Oireachtas research team estimates that there could be up to 500,000 people in the community in the State. Many of them were probably heartened to hear that the position of a special envoy for their freedom of expression was a priority for the Government and were disappointed when it fell through. Last night...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Appointments (30 Sep 2021)

Thomas Gould: An awful lot of people would be qualified to carry out the role of special envoy and would be interested in doing so. Sometimes we need to look outside the box of the usual suspects. A special envoy in this specific case for the LGBTQIA community is such an important role and it sends out such an important signal of how the Government considers that community and how it wants to support...

Afghanistan Crisis: Statements (29 Sep 2021)

Thomas Gould: I welcome the Government's decision to take in an additional 500 refugees. That is to be commended and acknowledged, as my party colleagues have done. I cannot even begin to imagine the experience of women and girls in Afghanistan over the past month. My thoughts are with those who have lost loved ones or fled their homes or who feel they are no longer safe and have no hope. The US,...

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]