Results 861-880 of 5,767 for speaker:Thomas Gould
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Thomas Gould: How many have been completed?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Thomas Gould: No, but what-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Thomas Gould: The money could be spread out as people draw it down. I am trying to be constructive here. It could be drawn down over time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Thomas Gould: Sorry, I was at the drugs committee meeting.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Thomas Gould: To be fair to Waterford, it is the outlier. It does great work-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Thomas Gould: To be fair, if you look at the rest of the local authorities, it is not happening.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Thomas Gould: What people tell me is that it might be possible in Waterford but it does not make financial sense in other cities.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Thomas Gould: That is what the local authorities are saying.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Thomas Gould: There was the 7% levy once it started being levied.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Thomas Gould: He might have, but this is going back two years now, so it was about the time the schemes were coming in. Maybe he accessed it afterwards, but the point was that once his property was put on the register and the levy applied, it was the incentive for him to do the work. The thing about it was that he had a number of properties around Cork and other places. Financially, he did not need to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Thomas Gould: Last week, I was contacted by a lady who received notification last week from Cork City Council that there was no emergency accommodation available. The advice was to overstay or find somewhere else to stay in the short term. We now have a crisis. In the first three months of this year, 544 notices to quit were issued in Cork. The tenant in situ scheme has addressed part of that, which is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Thomas Gould: I have a letter.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Thomas Gould: On another issue related to-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Thomas Gould: That is acquisitions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Thomas Gould: Cork County Council is refusing to put a lady into emergency accommodation because she lost her tenancy through addiction. It turns out that she had been abused by her partner. He has since gone into prison and she has gone into recovery. She is a year into recovery and is trying to get her two children back. She cannot get them back because Cork County Council is refusing to put her into...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Thomas Gould: People who are in recovery should be supported by their local authority, especially when it is a battle every day to stay in recovery. This woman is trying to access her children.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Thomas Gould: She had a house and lost it because of her situation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Thomas Gould: She has applied now but it could take up to six months.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Thomas Gould: My point is that if the Minister were to direct local authorities to work with people who are in recovery-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Thomas Gould: I will take that up and will tell the woman in question that I raised this case today. I will look at the response. If I have to contact the Minister-----