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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Housing Delivery, Service and Supply: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Thomas Gould: I will conclude because I have to go to the Chamber to speak, but as long as those are exceeding the European Union's figures, Uisce Éireann's figures, that means that water in my opinion and in the legal opinion is not fit for consumption and a "Do not consume" notice should be put on it. We are talking about over 100,000 people. We are talking about thousands of children being put at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Housing Delivery, Service and Supply: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Thomas Gould: I will be back to you.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Housing Delivery, Service and Supply: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Thomas Gould: Last year, the ESB made €706 million in profit. The year before, it made €868 million. The year before that, it made €649 million. We are in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis. We have some of the highest electricity prices in Europe. What can be done to give some relief to people who are struggling to turn on their lights and keep their homes warm? At the same...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Housing Delivery, Service and Supply: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Thomas Gould: I know all that, but I am asking on behalf of the person living in Gurranabraher or Mayfield who is worried about turning on the kettle. People are worried that, if they boil the kettle during the day when it is at peak time, it costs them extra. We know that some money goes into the Exchequer. I ask what can we do for ordinary people who are suffering with the cost of living. What can...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Housing Delivery, Service and Supply: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Thomas Gould: There is no relief. We have some of the highest electricity prices in Europe and they will stay the same. I have only 30 seconds left and I thank the ESB but apologies, but time is against us. I want to make it clear to Uisce Éireann that I do not blame it for all of the problems we have with our water infrastructure. This is a result of generations of Governments failing to invest...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Housing Delivery, Service and Supply: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Thomas Gould: Can I get the answer in writing after the meeting?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Housing Delivery, Service and Supply: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Thomas Gould: I ask that the information Deputy McGrath looked for be circulated to all of us, please.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (1 Jul 2025)

Thomas Gould: 52. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the latest Construction Status Progress Report, which shows that 5,166 public homes in the pipeline have not progressed in three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35548/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (1 Jul 2025)

Thomas Gould: 104. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on discussions between his Department and Cork City Council regarding the tenant-in-situ scheme. [35547/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (1 Jul 2025)

Thomas Gould: 563. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has explored average sentence length and the impact living in an area of deprivation has on these for similar crimes. [35517/25]

Legislative and Structural Reforms to Accelerate Housing Delivery: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2025)

Thomas Gould: This Government says if the Opposition only brought forward solutions, it would listen and would implement them. What a load of hogwash. Here we have a solution and though the Minister of State might not agree with every part of it, it is a solution that is being brought forward in the same way that two weeks ago I brought a motion to the House to clear all the boarded-up vacant council...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters: General Practitioner Services (24 Jun 2025)

Thomas Gould: I thank the Minister of State. I accept that she has been given this information and, in all honesty, she has come here and presented it to the Dáil tonight. However, I have to say that information has gone into the Dáil record tonight that is not true. I ask the Minister of State sincerely to go back to the Department and the HSE and ask them why they gave her false information....

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters: General Practitioner Services (24 Jun 2025)

Thomas Gould: Thank you. An important question the Minister of State might ask is how it can go from 2,200 down to 22, and they are the Minister of State's figures. I respect that the Minister of State is doing her best tonight.

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters: General Practitioner Services (24 Jun 2025)

Thomas Gould: Freedom of information documents I received in May show that on 18 March, the head of primary care services in the HSE South-West asked who approved the amalgamation of services that led to the closure of SouthDoc in Blackpool, but she got no response. I have asked the same question multiple times and I have got no response. A decision was made to close SouthDoc Blackpool and no one knows...

Presidential Voting Rights: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jun 2025)

Thomas Gould: Tomás Mac Curtain once wrote, “Unity can triumph over fear." These are the famous words of the Irish republican and former ard-mhéara of Cork City Council, who was assassinated by the RIC and the Black and Tans to quieten him so that his voice would not be heard. However, his words have never been more important. True patriots know that only united will we defeat those who...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Key Challenges to Tackling Homelessness: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Thomas Gould: Go raibh maith agaibh and thanks for coming in here today. I appreciate it. The first issue I want to raise is that of the tenant in situ scheme. This was the best way to prevent families and children in particular from entering emergency accommodation and becoming homeless. That has been gutted this year. Last year, 100 children and 88 adults were prevented from becoming homeless through...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Key Challenges to Tackling Homelessness: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Thomas Gould: Mr. Mulhern is saying there is a reduction, yet I have the Minister for housing and the Taoiseach telling me on the floor of the Dáil that funding is being allocated. We have local authorities telling us one thing and the Taoiseach and the Minister for housing telling us there is no problem here, but Mr. Mulhern is telling us now there is.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Key Challenges to Tackling Homelessness: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Thomas Gould: Yes, I have the figures, but Mr. Mulhern said €37 million of that was related to last year.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Key Challenges to Tackling Homelessness: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Thomas Gould: That was great work the witnesses' organisations all did through the tenant in situ scheme to prevent families from becoming homeless. Everyone involved in all the local authorities should be very proud of the work done there. However, it was then gutted by the new Minister when he came in. I have a question I want to come to. The Simon Community told me recently that it had received no...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Key Challenges to Tackling Homelessness: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Thomas Gould: No, this is nationally. Well, I think it is nationally, from when I was speaking to the Simon Community.