What about the people of Cork?
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People will be homeless-----
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He is the Minister for housing; he will not do a jot.
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I have 33 families in Cork.
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Thirty-three families will be homeless in the next few weeks and you will not do anything about it.
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Tell that to the families becoming homeless.
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They want me up here shouting because you will not do your job.
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3. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the timeline of the completion of the stock audit across all local authorities. [24904/25]
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Will the Minister of State provide the timeline for the completion of the stock survey across all local authorities?
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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 end. The Minister of State just commented on the voids programme. A maximum of only €11,000 can be claimed per unit under it. Local authorities are leaving the voids, or boarded-up houses, as they should be called, empty for years, destroying communities, causing dirt and antisocial behaviour, and affecting the environment people are living in all because the Government will not give the money. I was in Kevin Street flats and Pearse Street flats yesterday. It is a disgrace that the Government is not giving the money. There 79 apartments between the two blocks that are empty right now. Across the whole State, there are more than 4,000 board-up houses and the Government has only allocated enough to do less than half - 45% - yet the Minister of State is talking about planned maintenance.
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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 rid of the voids programme.
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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 allocating €67.23 per house for local authorities to do a stock maintenance and planning survey.
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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.
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The Government has to fund it, though.
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