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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Affordable Housing: Discussion (23 Sep 2025)

Thomas Gould: I thank everyone for being here. I will keep the questions short if they do not mind. I will start with Professor Norris. She has been here before on the excellent work she has done on the Housing Commission. We are talking about trying to reach a figure of social, affordable and cost rental properties. What is the best way the Government can deliver that if it was to take on board what...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Affordable Housing: Discussion (23 Sep 2025)

Thomas Gould: To tease that out a bit more, I come from an area in Cork, Garranabraher, which is almost 90 years old. Due to the boom and bust and the finances of the country going from being awash with money to austerity and back again there is no housing maintenance plan. The previous Minister and the new Minister have talked about putting in pre-emptive maintenance and maintenance plans but what they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Affordable Housing: Discussion (23 Sep 2025)

Thomas Gould: Professor Norris is right there. Local authorities are being scapegoated by the Government. They are being blamed but they are not getting the funding. On another issue other people may want to come in on, I had my clinic in my office on Monday and I had a family in with me. They were a husband, wife and three children with one on the way. She is living with the kids in her mother's...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Affordable Housing: Discussion (23 Sep 2025)

Thomas Gould: Okay. Mr. Turnbull was talking about this. With the tenant purchase, there is a lot of it in some areas like Knocknaheeny. What happens then, especially for estates that are completely social housing, is the area where people buy into the community and buy their houses, you see the standards within that community rise because people are more invested. There was mention of what happened in...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disabilities Assessments (23 Sep 2025)

Thomas Gould: 36. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children currently overdue an assessment of needs in Cork; and the number of private assessments that have been funded in Cork in the past 12 months. [50224/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disability Services (23 Sep 2025)

Thomas Gould: 78. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the engagement she has undertaken with disability advocacy groups in terms of ensuring disabled access to public realm and shared public spaces. [50225/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (23 Sep 2025)

Thomas Gould: 254. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if primary retail purpose is a criterion for the increased cost of business grant. [50275/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (23 Sep 2025)

Thomas Gould: 314. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children in special schools in Cork who are sanctioned transport provision, but for whom a contract has not yet issued. [50238/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (23 Sep 2025)

Thomas Gould: 317. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when all children who need school transport in Cork will have access to same. [50241/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (23 Sep 2025)

Thomas Gould: 315. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children who previously had a contract for school transport in Cork for whom a contract is no longer available. [50239/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (23 Sep 2025)

Thomas Gould: 316. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of school transport contracts not renewed this year. [50240/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Urban Development (23 Sep 2025)

Thomas Gould: 400. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether a town centre living grant will be introduced. [50474/25]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2025)

Thomas Gould: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Conservation (18 Sep 2025)

Thomas Gould: The Minister of State urgently needs to instruct the SEAI to collect data on people who withdraw their applications to the scheme. It needs to find out why people withdraw. A survey by AIB showed that 62% of people who wanted to retrofit and upgrade their houses to become more energy efficient could not afford to do so. The figures are showing that the people who need their homes upgraded...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Conservation (18 Sep 2025)

Thomas Gould: 94. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the percentage of grant applications to SEAI that are withdrawn. [49212/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Conservation (18 Sep 2025)

Thomas Gould: Will the Minister of State provide an update on the percentage of grant applications to the SEAI schemes that are being withdrawn?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Conservation (18 Sep 2025)

Thomas Gould: I asked a simple question - what was the percentage of people who withdrew from the SEAI scheme - and I did not get the percentage. People are telling me that they are withdrawing from the scheme or not applying to the scheme because they do not have the money. It turns out that the people who most need the retrofitting and the upgrading works to their house to bring them to at least a B2...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (18 Sep 2025)

Thomas Gould: 43. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the actions taken to improve retention in the Defence Forces. [49210/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (18 Sep 2025)

Thomas Gould: 79. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence for an update on the pay and conditions of members of the Defence Forces. [49209/25]