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Written Answers — Department of Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (29 Jun 2021)

Thomas Gould: 571. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to include additional diagnosis in the medicinal cannabis access programme. [34052/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (29 Jun 2021)

Thomas Gould: 572. To ask the Minister for Health when a review will be undertaken on the current diagnosis and medicines available under the medicinal cannabis access programme. [34053/21]

Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (24 Jun 2021)

Thomas Gould: Did the Minister hear what I said? I said I hope this Bill delivers.

Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (24 Jun 2021)

Thomas Gould: I was talking about this matter with Fianna Fáil Deputies and councillors who were voting against it in Cork 20 years ago.

Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (24 Jun 2021)

Thomas Gould: There has been a small error with the Bill. Naming a Bill that will drive up house prices and offer rental at €1,100 a month in Cork as an Affordable Housing Bill is a farce. Affordability cannot be based on the market price; it has to be based on income. House prices in Cork rose last year by 11%. For most of my constituents, the average family home in Cork is so far out of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Vacant Properties (24 Jun 2021)

Thomas Gould: Deputy Carroll MacNeill raises a very good point in relation to insurance. This is an issue that we have been looking at in Cork city for the past ten or 12 years. I discussed with the Minister a number of weeks ago the fact that there are 92,000 vacant homes in this State but we have only three full-time vacant home officers. The Minister of State said that a grant of €50,000 is...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (24 Jun 2021)

Thomas Gould: 19. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the actions he has taken to mitigate the serious distress and harm being caused by the sudden ability of landlords to increase rents by 8%. [33894/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Derelict Sites (24 Jun 2021)

Thomas Gould: 82. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the actions he plans to take to strengthen the Derelict Sites Act 1990 and to support local authorities in their ability to tackle derelict sites. [33893/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (24 Jun 2021)

Thomas Gould: 144. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the actions he is taking to reduce the serious backlog in passport applications. [33902/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Workplace Relations Commission (24 Jun 2021)

Thomas Gould: 164. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of Workplace Relations Commission actions taken in County Cork to date in 2021. [34054/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (24 Jun 2021)

Thomas Gould: 228. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the provision given to Cork City Council to reimburse CPOs in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021. [34056/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Derelict Sites (24 Jun 2021)

Thomas Gould: 229. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he plans to establish a national registry of derelict sites. [34057/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Sites (24 Jun 2021)

Thomas Gould: 230. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of sites on the vacant sites register by county. [34058/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Court Judgments (24 Jun 2021)

Thomas Gould: 368. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prosecutions under the Novel Psychoactive Substances Act 2010 in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form. [34055/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Interim Report on Mortality in Single Homeless Population 2020: Engagement with HSE (24 Jun 2021)

Thomas Gould: I thank Dr. O'Carroll for attending today and for his report. One of the recommendations concerns getting data and analysing what has happened to people in respect of tracking and tracing why homeless people are dying. This is a major issue for me as well. As a Deputy for Cork North-Central, I have been raising this issue with the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy...

Residential Tenancies (No. 2) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Jun 2021)

Thomas Gould: I welcome some of the changes proposed in the Bill, especially those that will impact on students. It is good that there will be limits in regard to how much landlords can request as deposits but, unfortunately, there is a loophole. Let us be honest, if unscrupulous landlords who abused the system last year find another loophole, they will do the same again this year. That is why one of...

Residential Tenancies (No. 2) Bill 2021: Second Stage (23 Jun 2021)

Thomas Gould: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for allowing me to speak today. No one should be made homeless, especially in the middle of a pandemic. This is common sense. In years to come, people will find it difficult to believe that our housing Minister stood by and allowed evictions to happen in the middle of a global pandemic. Without proper protection for renters, there is a real chance that this...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Jun 2021)

Thomas Gould: 205. To ask the Minister for Health when snooker halls will be allowed to reopen. [25942/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Drugs Strategy (23 Jun 2021)

Thomas Gould: 206. To ask the Minister for Health the actions that have been taken under Action 1.1.1 of the national drugs strategy plan upon completion of the 2020 review. [25954/21]