Results 141-160 of 5,835 for speaker:Thomas Gould

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Legislative Measures (20 May 2025)

Thomas Gould: 335. To ask the Minister for Finance for an update on the Finance (Provision of Access to Cash Infrastructure) Bill 2024; and whether he will consider expanding the role of post offices in the implementation of this legislation. [25507/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (20 May 2025)

Thomas Gould: 757. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she is aware that foster carers receive a cut in payment when a child turns 18, even if the child is still in full-time schooling; and if she will consider extending the full payment to children who are finishing school. [25373/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (15 May 2025)

Thomas Gould: Will there be supplementary questions?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (15 May 2025)

Thomas Gould: With respect, I just have one question. It relates to Cork.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (15 May 2025)

Thomas Gould: Okay.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Derelict Sites (15 May 2025)

Thomas Gould: 12. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the derelict sites levy collection in 2024. [24896/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Derelict Sites (15 May 2025)

Thomas Gould: Will the Minister of State provide an update on the amount collected by means of the derelict sites levy in 2024? We know that the derelict sites register and the derelict sites levy together constitute one of the only ways to get at landlords who are hoarding properties and letting them fall into rack and ruin.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Derelict Sites (15 May 2025)

Thomas Gould: As the Minister of State said, the latest figures he has are for 2023. The new figures will arrive e shortly. As the Minister of State outlined, there are 1,913 derelict sites on the register. What is shocking is that only one in three have been levied. Thirteen local authorities applied no levy. Seventeen did not collect even one cent. In 2023, local authorities that applied the levies...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Derelict Sites (15 May 2025)

Thomas Gould: Local authorities have a legal obligation to enforce the Derelict Sites Act. They are not doing it. Deputies Browne and Cummins are the Ministers responsible. It is as simple as that. This is a legal obligation which local authorities have and which is not being enforced. Local authorities also tell me that they do not have the staff or resources to do this work. In reply to a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (15 May 2025)

Thomas Gould: The Minister outlined the amount of money given to the tenant in situ scheme. Two weeks ago, I raised with the Taoiseach and the Minister of State, Deputy O'Sullivan, the 33 families in Cork whose houses were sale agreed. Cork City Council was going to buy the houses but on 4 April it informed Cork City Council councillors that there was no money left to go ahead. I was told the Government...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Local Authorities (15 May 2025)

Thomas Gould: 3. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the timeline of the completion of the stock audit across all local authorities. [24904/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Local Authorities (15 May 2025)

Thomas Gould: Will the Minister of State provide the timeline for the completion of the stock survey across all local authorities?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Local Authorities (15 May 2025)

Thomas Gould: On 11 November 2021, the former Minister informed me in a parliamentary question answer that the stock audit would take place across all local authorities and would take four to five years. As the Minister of State pointed out, that would have allowed for a planned maintenance programme for 2022 and 2023 - we are at least two, if not three, years behind schedule - and the voids programme to...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Local Authorities (15 May 2025)

Thomas Gould: I thank the Minister of State. He said the majority of local authorities were carrying these surveys out. How many local authorities have carried them out? How much of the stock has been surveyed? Are there available figures that the Minister of State can provide me? Cork City Council has 11,000 properties. As far as I know, no stock survey has been done and the Government want to get...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Local Authorities (15 May 2025)

Thomas Gould: In 2021, the then Minister said it and that the maintenance scheme would be put in place in 2022 and 2023. The Government said that. Is the Minister of State now disagreeing with what the previous Minister said? We are looking for facts and figures. When will the surveys be done? I have some figures, so I will give the Minister of State an idea of the allocations. The Government is...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Local Authorities (15 May 2025)

Thomas Gould: I will provide one more figure. In the area of maintenance, the cost is reckoned to be €1,200, but the Government is giving €63.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Local Authorities (15 May 2025)

Thomas Gould: The Government has to fund it, though.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Local Authorities (15 May 2025)

Thomas Gould: What about the people of Cork?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Local Authorities (15 May 2025)

Thomas Gould: People will be homeless-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Local Authorities (15 May 2025)

Thomas Gould: He is the Minister for housing; he will not do a jot.