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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Proposed Changes to Local Property Tax: Discussion (6 Jul 2021)

Thomas Gould: I am not sure whether Ms Walshe or Dr. Walsh wishes to take this question. What are their opinions on the Grant Thornton report on LPT and its possible alternatives? Are there better alternatives to LPT that would provide funding for local government? Deputy Doherty, Sinn Féin's finance spokesperson, and our wider party have advocated that a wealth tax would be a more equitable...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Proposed Changes to Local Property Tax: Discussion (6 Jul 2021)

Thomas Gould: Ms Walshe made the point that the vast majority of people have complied. I have been contacted by constituents in Glanmire, Togher and Blarney and, specifically, Kerry Pike, where more than 90% of people are compliant and pay the tax but cannot get action in respect of footpaths, public lighting or amenities. What rights do residents who pay their LPT have in areas which do not get from...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Proposed Changes to Local Property Tax: Discussion (6 Jul 2021)

Thomas Gould: I support the comments of the Acting Chairman, Senator Cummins and Deputy McAuliffe. All of us can agree about the pressure this puts on local authorities and councillors trying to bring forward budgets when they are trying to make decisions. This year that will be in August. Something has to be done to give local authorities some flexibility. They must balance their books every year, but...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Accommodation (1 Jul 2021)

Thomas Gould: I am asking this question on behalf of Deputy Ó Laoghaire. Will the Minster provide an update on the progress of the provision of a permanent building for the Cork Educate Together Secondary School, ETSS?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Accommodation (1 Jul 2021)

Thomas Gould: I thank the Minister for her reply. Cork Educate Together Secondary School was founded in 2016. This situation has been ongoing for five years now. In September, the children who started secondary school in the school's first year will be sitting their leaving certificate examinations. Overall, there are 360 students, or approximately 60 students in each year. However, approximately 200...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Accommodation (1 Jul 2021)

Thomas Gould: I appreciate what the Minister is saying and that there has been a concerted effort to try to obtain planning permission and get the school built. We have to consider what the children are going through. Only half a class can do art, high-tech teaching or science at any one time. There are no physical education, PE, facilities in the school, so the students are being bussed to other...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (1 Jul 2021)

Thomas Gould: 37. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the building of a new school building for a school (details supplied). [35258/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (1 Jul 2021)

Thomas Gould: 92. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the possibility of there being no public single sex secondary education option on the northside of Cork city. [35259/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (1 Jul 2021)

Thomas Gould: 179. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to acknowledge the phenomenal work done by carers throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. [35260/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mortality Rates (1 Jul 2021)

Thomas Gould: 488. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the Health Research Board have not conducted an analysis of drug and alcohol deaths since 2017; and when it plans to publish such a study again. [29263/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mortality Rates (1 Jul 2021)

Thomas Gould: 489. To ask the Minister for Health the location the collated up-to-date information on drug and alcohol death is available. [29264/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (1 Jul 2021)

Thomas Gould: 490. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the reopening of SouthDoc Blackpool. [29265/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (1 Jul 2021)

Thomas Gould: 491. To ask the Minister for Health if formal steps have been taken by the HSE to penalise SouthDoc Blackpool for their continued breach of the service level agreement with SouthDoc. [29266/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Admissions (1 Jul 2021)

Thomas Gould: 492. To ask the Minister for Health the number of alcohol-related admittances to hospitals in 2020 and to date in 2021, by month in tabular form. [29267/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Admissions (1 Jul 2021)

Thomas Gould: 493. To ask the Minister for Health the number of drug-related admittances to hospitals in 2020 and to date in 2021, by month in tabular form. [29268/21]

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2021)

Thomas Gould: I will be brief. There are just a couple of points I wish to make. When I listen to Government Deputies in the Chamber, in particular Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael Deputies, I sometimes wonder whether they have group amnesia or are living in a parallel universe. Deputy Ó Broin and I submitted more than 160 amendments on Committee Stage. We were actually criticised by Fianna...

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2021)

Thomas Gould: I will make two points. I find it amazing that I attended housing meetings where I and my colleague, Deputy Ó Broin, were criticised for the number of amendments we tabled because we tried to change this Bill fundamentally to deliver-----

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2021)

Thomas Gould: -----and we tabled no amendments today. We are being criticised by Deputy McAuliffe for not putting forward amendments to this Bill. We tabled more than 100 amendments when the Bill was in the housing committee. We were criticised for putting forward amendments there. This is typical of Fianna Fáil to run with the hare and hunt with the hounds.

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2021)

Thomas Gould: Deputy Matthews spoke earlier. I know Deputy Matthews is a new Teachta Dála but I would invite him to contact any local authority or to come to County Cork. We have buildings in North Main Street in Cork city that are crumbling. Cork City Council has to look at compulsory purchase because the compulsory purchase provisions were not strong enough. It is the same in this Bill. It will...

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2021)

Thomas Gould: The compulsory purchase laws are not strong enough. The Minister should come to Cork and I will show him vacant properties-----