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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Digital Archiving (23 Apr 2024)

Thomas Gould: 180. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider the digitisation of railway records similar to those of the Land Commission. [17932/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Naval Service (21 Mar 2024)

Thomas Gould: ...is currently available to patrol our 1 million sq. km exclusive economic zone. The newspaper also stated that a lack of expertise delayed the use of two smaller vessels, which arrived from New Zealand last May. These are unlikely to become operational until the winter, at the earliest. These two vessels cost €26 million. A decade ago, we had eight Naval Service ships patrolling...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Properties (20 Sep 2023)

Thomas Gould: 63. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he is aware that lands gifted by his Department to Ballincollig AFC more than twenty years ago at the former Murphy Barracks site in Ballincollig have still not been transferred to the club; if he will explain the reason this transfer has not been completed as intended; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40258/23]

Situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Statements (13 Jul 2023)

Thomas Gould: Sinn Féin stands firmly in support of Palestine and the Palestinian people. On this island, we have faced centuries-long struggle and oppression endured over 800 years. Our history has taught us at first hand the harsh realities of being under the rule of a foreign oppressor that believes it has a right to seize our land. It is not difficult, therefore, to draw significant parallels...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Jul 2023)

Thomas Gould: There is also a reference to consent of the landowner, being the land in the maritime area, but what about the consent in respect of the money in itself, and how the State and public's interests will be properly addressed?

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (20 Jun 2023)

Thomas Gould: 388. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of delays in land ownership that has seen successful applicants draw down and begin the process of repaying mortgages for the Newton Heights Affordable Housing Scheme in Cork city without receipt of keys; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29615/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2023)

Thomas Gould: .... We are all in agreement. We need houses, we need them built and we need them built as quickly as possible. On the other side of that, we know for a fact that people have made huge profits on land speculation over the years. The witnesses have talked about capturing the uplift in value. I cannot see how capturing the uplift in value is an extra tax. I take on board some of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2023)

Thomas Gould: ...Croí Cónaithe cities scheme aimed to activate 5,000 apartments. Has there been interest in this? Will these targets be delivered? These were incentives to get the infrastructure put in and get land that was zoned built but from what I have seen out of projected figures that has not happened, or it certainly has not happened to the scale the Minister said it would. Have IPAV...

Accommodation Needs for New Arrivals: Statements (23 May 2023)

Thomas Gould: ...answer. It is an insult to ordinary people. No wonder people are angry. That anger should be pointed at the Government, however. It is allowing people to turn that anger from the speculators, vulture funds, slum landlords and land hoarders. It is allowing the anger to be placed on the wrong people and at the wrong doors. It is refusing to accept responsibility for the crisis in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Thomas Gould: I have just one question on a comment made earlier. Mr. Jones spoke about the over-zoning of land and that we have too much over zoned land. Cork City Council has recently brought forward its new city development plan. The Office of the Planning Regulator, OPR, suggested that the council had over-zoned the land and it had to go back and take some sites out. Then there were sites that were...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)

Thomas Gould: ...these figures and it is a crime. If the Minister does not believe me, I advise him to do a Google search for "dereliction on North Main Street, Cork". It is unbelievable how people were allowed to speculate on land and allow property to collapse in the middle of cities. How many people are on the derelict sites team in the Department? What is their role? Do the vacant homes officers...

Vacant Homes Tax: Motion [Private Members] (19 Apr 2023)

Thomas Gould: ...empty. Does the Minister seriously think 0.3% is going to deter the people who are making profit? It was said earlier that when you take away the increase in house prices and take the levy away, landlords and especially land hoarders can sit idly by and watch their investments go up in value. In my constituency new houses are being built next to empty, boarded-up ones. It is madness....

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Housing Policy (8 Feb 2023)

Thomas Gould: 48. To ask the Taoiseach the dates of the past five meetings of the Housing for All State lands subgroup. [5615/23]

Forestry Sector: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2023)

Thomas Gould: ...difference between us and them is, it is that Fine Gael, supported by Fianna Fáil and the Green Party, will sell the future of the people to investment funds. Why? It does not make economic sense. This land belongs to the people and the Government is selling it and giving it away, in the way it tried to do with water and has done with housing. To conclude, I say shame on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)

Thomas Gould: They want to build private houses on public lands.

Toll Charge Increases: Motion [Private Members] (29 Nov 2022)

Thomas Gould: ...to put petrol and diesel in their cars and now this Government is putting tolls up on top of it. We hear a lot of talk about the need for the carrot-and-stick approach. If you are a developer, a land hoarder or someone sitting on derelict sites there are loads of carrots but little stick. There is a reward all the time for the friends of the Government but for ordinary people looking...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (24 Nov 2022)

Thomas Gould: I have a few questions on the land legacy loans that the Minister has provided €100 million for. In my time on Cork City Council, that was a big issue for us. Cork City Council had built up substantial debts. They had purchased properties before the financial crash. For years, they were only paying interest on these land debts and then they had to pay capital. The issue here is if...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (24 Nov 2022)

Thomas Gould: Does the Minister have a figure for the total legacy debt on the land that local authorities are holding?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary) (24 Nov 2022)

Thomas Gould: ...back to a point Deputy Cian O'Callaghan made earlier in relation to local property tax. The Minister is taking hundreds of thousands of euro out of the finances of local authorities to pay interest or debts on land they were told to purchase by central government and that they are sitting on now. That money should be spent on parks, public roads, public lighting and pedestrian crossings....

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (10 Nov 2022)

Thomas Gould: 143. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide an update on the work of the Revenue Commissioners to implement the zoned land tax. [55826/22]