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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Affordable Homes, Public Lands, Strategic Planning and Projects: Land Development Agency (23 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: Has the LDA engaged with the NTA regarding public transport because there is no public transport there? I raised this matter when I put in a submission about the development of the site. I have been advocating the development of St. Kevin's site since 2011. Comments were made earlier about delivery according to timelines and the success of the LDA. I am frustrated that the site has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Affordable Homes, Public Lands, Strategic Planning and Projects: Land Development Agency (23 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: We see new housing developments in Cork. There is one on the Old Mallow Road but there is no bus service. We are talking about global warming and climate change but we are building housing estates where families will be forced to have multiple cars. That is why I am really anxious to have sustainable transport corridors and services at the St. Kevin's site. My other point is on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Affordable Homes, Public Lands, Strategic Planning and Projects: Land Development Agency (23 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: As part of the agreement when the new prison was built, commitments were given to the community in the Glen and surrounding areas. Anything that happens on the site will have to involve discussions with the local community. Have the witnesses any idea of the rent for the St. Kevin's site? It is probably sensitive information but I would like a ballpark figure. Will the rents be affordable?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Affordable Homes, Public Lands, Strategic Planning and Projects: Land Development Agency (23 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: The only point I would make – Deputy Ó Broin made it earlier – is that our concern is that people who cannot qualify for social housing because they are just over the threshold will be caught. I ask the witnesses to be very conscious of that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Affordable Homes, Public Lands, Strategic Planning and Projects: Land Development Agency (23 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: Following on from Senator Fitzpatrick, is the figure she mentioned of €470,000 to build a property the cost of building a three-bedroom terraced house in Dublin? If it is, and we are looking at affordable and social housing, at the current rates of rents and house prices increasing, that means in the next year or two, the average standard terraced house will cost €500,000....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Affordable Homes, Public Lands, Strategic Planning and Projects: Land Development Agency (23 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: Would it be less if it was a terraced house?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Affordable Homes, Public Lands, Strategic Planning and Projects: Land Development Agency (23 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: I have a few other questions. I will not spend too long on that because I am caught for time. Mr. Coleman mentioned earlier that there is a property next to the former St. Kevin's Asylum development called Atkins Hall, half of which was developed privately and the other half of which was not developed. Did the LDA consider bringing that in as part of the development of the St. Kevin's...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Affordable Homes, Public Lands, Strategic Planning and Projects: Land Development Agency (23 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: I would make the point, that was the old mental hospital building. One half of it is kitted out and people are living there. The building is there for the other half. St. Kevin's is right beside it. When you look at the scale and the cost of developing a site, the LDA should consider looking at that site. That site is on the derelict sites register. It should be purchased with a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: These are the facts.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: The Government has not built houses.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: We will build houses.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (18 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: The question referenced the expansion of apprenticeship places. I ask the Minister, and I have already asked for this, for a purpose-built apprentice centre in Cork under the heading of either Munster Technological University or the ETB. The northside would be the ideal location for that. We need multiple campuses. I once again ask the Minister to look at that. It is an area that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Education (18 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: The Minister made a point about people who might not get the points and who might go through a different avenue. I dealt with a case this year of a girl who went through Coláiste Stiofáin Naofa and got the maximum results there. The problem was about getting into University College Cork, UCC, to become part of the physical education, PE, programme and become a PE teacher. The...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (18 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: The Minister quoted figures on people taking up apprenticeships and stated it was a high number. I will give the Minister a figure that was recently released to me. There are only 83 apprentices who are at phase 7 in Cork. There are 14 electricians and 16 plumbers. Cork needs 39,105 houses by 2028 but there will be 16 plumbers and 14 electricians, if that is what we are turning out....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (18 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: No, Minister. These are parliamentary questions.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (18 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: You cannot stand there now. These are parliamentary questions.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (18 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: In phase 7 there are only 83 people.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (18 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: That is the final phase.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (18 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: I will send on my response to you so you can have it as well.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (18 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: There is no incentive there. Obviously, you do not-----