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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Electoral Reform Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Jun 2021)

Thomas Gould: Sinn Féin will support this important legislation. It is once in a lifetime legislation that we have to get right. What steps are being taken to give 16-year-olds the right to vote? I recently joined Instagram and while I am still getting my head around the platform, I can reach a much younger age group on it. Through it I see that young people are engaging with and know about...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (17 Jun 2021)

Thomas Gould: 41. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the northern ring road. [32435/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (17 Jun 2021)

Thomas Gould: 70. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to disparities in sustainable transport access in Cork city. [32436/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Funding (17 Jun 2021)

Thomas Gould: 132. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his attention has been drawn to a disparity in funding allocations across several Departments between areas in Cork city; and his plans to address this. [32468/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (17 Jun 2021)

Thomas Gould: 134. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on whether all contracts for capital works laid out in the National Development Plan should be required to contain social clauses which require contractors to hire a certain proportion of their staff from the live register and create a certain number of apprenticeships. [31969/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Seized Property (17 Jun 2021)

Thomas Gould: 386. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if it is possible to reclaim a relative’s War of Independence firearm if it was surrendered to An Garda Síochána in the 1970s. [32572/21]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2021)

Thomas Gould: The housing crisis is getting worse every week. Not a week goes by without some new statistic showing how bad the situation is getting. We see house prices and rents rising while, at the same time, not enough houses are being delivered to meet demand. We have a huge issue with capacity and the provision of housing. We know speculators are hoarding land and trying to maximise the profits...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2021)

Thomas Gould: Sorry, Chair, the Minister made a statement about people opposing the development of the St. Kevin's site in Cork. I have not opposed it and do not know of anyone here who has. If the Minister makes a statement such as that, he should clarify who he is speaking about. I do not know of anyone who has opposed it. I originally proposed that we build on that site, eight years ago, before the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2021)

Thomas Gould: The Minister cannot come to public meetings and make comments that are not accurate.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Jun 2021)

Thomas Gould: Like others, I have concerns about social housing. I appreciate that the Minister is talking about increasing the 10% Part V social housing requirement to 20%. The core of the facts here is that public housing should be built on public land. We cannot stand over any development that will allow private developers to build private houses on public land, which are unaffordable to the majority...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Coverage (15 Jun 2021)

Thomas Gould: 75. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to insurance companies refusing to provide cover to persons with fully managed type 1 diabetes. [31799/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Unions (15 Jun 2021)

Thomas Gould: 132. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there is no recourse for complaint regarding decisions taken by the nominations committee of a credit union. [31798/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (15 Jun 2021)

Thomas Gould: 224. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the deadline for the submission of safety improvement works 2022. [30680/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (15 Jun 2021)

Thomas Gould: 279. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to a price discrepancy being quoted in the cost of the M20 by him and that being quoted by the engineering team. [31733/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services (15 Jun 2021)

Thomas Gould: 379. To ask the Minister for Finance if a lending agency can refuse a person a loan based on their age. [31817/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information (15 Jun 2021)

Thomas Gould: 437. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if TDs are exempt from Freedom of Information charges. [31001/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (15 Jun 2021)

Thomas Gould: 578. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding provided to local authorities in each of the years 2016 to 2020 and to date in 2021 to deal with the issue of dereliction in tabular form. [30704/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Derelict Sites (15 Jun 2021)

Thomas Gould: 579. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of full-time equivalent derelict sites inspectors by local authority in tabular form. [30705/21]