Results 1-20 of 25 for pension speaker:Thomas Gould

Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2024: Second Stage (10 Apr 2024)

Thomas Gould: ...will be adults by the time these funds can be spent. What does the Minister say to those 4,000 children across the State in homeless services? Will he say it is being put in a fund? Is that for their pension? These children need housing now and the Government is failing to deliver social, affordable and cost-rental housing. That is not me saying this; it is the Government's own low...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pension Levy (22 Feb 2024)

Thomas Gould: 119. To ask the Minister for Finance when the pension levy will be abolished for ESB pensions. [8557/24]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Quality (17 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: ...water is affected. I live on Cathedral Road and my neighbours are telling me they cannot use the water. They cannot have showers in the morning before they go to work or college. I know of a pensioner in Dublin Hill who has to get water delivered because she cannot carry it up the hill. She does not trust the drinking water. We have families who have to get bottled water for their...

Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) (Temporary Solidarity Contribution) Bill 2023: Second Stage (27 Jun 2023)

Thomas Gould: ...bills they are struggling to pay and that many cannot afford. Parents are having to make the choice between heating and what they can feed their children and how they can support their families. Pensioners are telling us how they wore jumpers and tried to keep the electricity off because they are so terrified by the cost of it. A family consisting of two adults and two children...

Targeted Investment in the Health Service: Motion [Private Members] (17 May 2023)

Thomas Gould: ...Michael Collins, who has run buses to Belfast. Last month, I got a phone call from a lady who had been taken by Deputy Collins from my constituency to Belfast to get cataract surgery. She is a pensioner with many health issues and she was nervous about being so far away from home to get this surgery, but she would be waiting at least three years in Cork. In 2020, the Government...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (11 May 2023)

Thomas Gould: 122. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a person in receipt of an invalidity pension can qualify for a roof cladding grant to cover the full cost. [22250/23]

Food Costs and High Grocery Bills: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (9 May 2023)

Thomas Gould: ...when the country is awash with money, why does the Government not step in? In the last six months of 2022, Tesco’s profits in Ireland increased by 6.6%. In its 2023 budget, the Government only gave pensioners a rise of 4%. Grocery inflation is running at 17%. The Minister of State can do the maths. We can all do the maths. The Government is not giving people enough money,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Environmental Schemes (27 Apr 2023)

Thomas Gould: ...36,000 are to be done by 2030. This means that roughly 100,000 social housing units are being left behind. Social housing is for people who are on lower incomes, including older people and pensioners. Those 100,000 households are going to paying the carbon tax but will not be getting anything in return. We talk about fairness and equality but those who need their homes to be...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Illegal Dumping (27 Apr 2023)

Thomas Gould: ...yesterday with the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy Darragh O'Brien. There is an unbelievable amount of dumping and antisocial behaviour. Vulnerable people such as pensioners and people with disabilities should be given a waiver. Will the Minister of State provide funding to local authorities for a waiver? Some local authorities provide a waiver to those...

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: ...of a woman who has COPD and is on oxygen 24 hours a day. She was due to be evicted a few weeks ago. She got an extension then but she is to be out on Thursday. I spoke to her family. This lady is a pensioner with a serious medical condition. I know of a woman who has leukaemia and another woman with breast cancer. One is undergoing radiotherapy and the other is undergoing...

Energy Regulations: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (16 Nov 2022)

Thomas Gould: ...'s response is just to shrug his shoulders. It was the same shrug he gave in respect of the Debenhams workers and when we spoke about people who are on prepay meters, family carers, foster carers and pensioners. Where is the support? Where do matters stand as we head towards Christmas. The weather is getting colder. Parents will have children at home for much longer. The worry is how...

Domestic Electricity and Gas Disconnections: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2022)

Thomas Gould: ...a financial crisis, the Government parties bailed out the banks and did not give a damn about the cost. This winter, the Government could choose whether to bail out ordinary working families and pensioners - the people who are trying to get through the winter. The choice was with the Government, and it decided not to support ordinary people. The fundamental difference between this...

Communications Regulation Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Thomas Gould: ...telephone lines are elderly or living in rural areas. These are not luxury services, but necessities. While a €5 monthly increase may not seem like a huge amount for many people, for those living on pensions, those living alone and those living in vulnerable areas who are already struggling because of the cost-of-living crisis, these increases will have a huge impact on their...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 6: General: Financial Resolution (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

Thomas Gould: ...not just Sinn Féin or the Opposition. ALONE, the Society of St. Vincent de Paul and all the other groups have said that this budget has not delivered for ordinary people. It has not delivered for health or for housing, for pensioners or for students. It must be unbelievable for a Government to have €11 billion to spend and to make a bags of the budget. The people will not...

National Retrofit Plan: Motion [Private Members] (20 Sep 2022)

Thomas Gould: ...to get retrofitting, including wraparound insulation, windows - the whole lot. One family could get it done with the grant because they had the resources to pay for the rest themselves. The other family, two pensioners living on a fixed income, could not get it done. The people who needed it the most were the two pensioners but they were the people who could not get it done, and that is...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Dec 2021)

Thomas Gould: ...a child. There are many good, decent landlords who respect their tenants. The man I referred to is really sincere and all he wants to do is cover his costs. He originally bought the property as a type of pension for when he retires. That is how he looked at it. If we do not have the data on what is happening in the rental market, how can we make the right decisions? I ask the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Oct 2021)

Thomas Gould: 145. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the waiver for fixed line charges for pensioners was abolished. [50008/21]

Ombudsman for Children's Initiative on Eliminating Child Poverty and Child Homelessness: Statements (23 Sep 2021)

Thomas Gould: ...their parents will not have the money to buy fuel. These children are living in poverty and that is the fall-out from decades of Government policy. We hear the Tánaiste and the Taoiseach talking about pensions and paying mortgages for landlords when there are children going hungry every night. It is not good enough.

State Pension Age: Motion [Private Members] (22 Jun 2021)

Thomas Gould: ...said, they worked hard jobs all their lives such as in factories, shops and hospitals. They were denied the right to retire at 65 and, instead, were put on jobseeker's rate which is a lower rate than the pension rate. The Government said it will not oppose this motion. Will it support people who are 65 and give them the pension they deserve if they want to retire? Many people want to...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2021)

Thomas Gould: ...to solve this problem. People are angry at the Government for failing to prevent new variants coming into the country. A lady called Margaret from Dublin Hill in Cork rang me this week. She is a pensioner with underlying conditions who has been a prisoner in her own home - her words, not mine - for a year. She cannot understand why the Government has taken a year to bring in an action...