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- Hospital Waiting Lists: Motion [Private Members] (23 May 2023)
Thomas Gould: We face a perfect storm in our health service: a lack of community care and increasing pressure on already overburdened hospitals. In the first three months of the year, in Cork hospitals almost 6,500 beds have been lost because of delayed discharges. This has led to 1,900 cancellations in hospitals and that figure does not include CUH. Each one of these is a human being suffering because...
- Accommodation Needs for New Arrivals: Statements (23 May 2023)
Thomas Gould: I send my support and solidarity to everyone who has been forced to sleep on the streets in this State because of this Government's continued mishandling of the crisis in accommodation. We believe this is wrong. We know it is a direct result of poor Government policies. These failed policies are now attempting to pit the most vulnerable in our society against each other. There is no...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Part B (Fire Safety) of Building Regulations: Dublin Fire Brigade (23 May 2023)
Thomas Gould: I appreciate the opportunity to listen to the witnesses' knowledge and insight. There is an issue I am concerned about and I have been speaking to firefighters in Cork about it. The witnesses might give me their thoughts on derelict buildings. In the last couple of years, numerous derelict buildings in Cork have gone on fire repeatedly, on more than one occasion. I personally believe that...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Part B (Fire Safety) of Building Regulations: Dublin Fire Brigade (23 May 2023)
Thomas Gould: I believe that whoever owns those buildings should have a legal responsibility because firefighters are going out and putting their lives at risk. We have seen it in Cork multiple times. It is good to hear that the problem has reduced in Dublin but I imagine it is still a danger or a risk. There is another issue I wanted to raise. The witnesses are probably aware of it. I am talking about...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Part B (Fire Safety) of Building Regulations: Dublin Fire Brigade (23 May 2023)
Thomas Gould: Listening to the witnesses, it sounds like they have been very lucky to get the retained fire staff. We have not been so lucky in Cork. The other question was about pumps and how many pumps we needper capita.
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Cost of Living Issues (23 May 2023)
Thomas Gould: 85. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are any additional supports for parents coming into the summer months. [24631/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Cost of Living Issues (23 May 2023)
Thomas Gould: 88. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports in place for people struggling to pay their grocery bills. [24630/23]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (18 May 2023)
Thomas Gould: To follow on from the point made by Deputy Boyd Barrett, the local authority in the area where I live, Cork City Council, does not build extensions for people and its criteria for housing allocation are very tight. I am dealing with a number of families. One man has a notice to quit and the house he is in is not fit for his family. Local authorities should be able to build extensions or...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Grant Payments (18 May 2023)
Thomas Gould: 78. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the review of the maximum grant allowed under the adaptation grants schemes. [23926/23]
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Grant Payments (18 May 2023)
Thomas Gould: Will the Minister provide an update on the review of the maximum grant allowed under the adaptation grant schemes?
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Grant Payments (18 May 2023)
Thomas Gould: I thank the Minister of State for his response. In November of last year the Minister of State, Deputy Peter Burke, gave a commitment that the review would be published at the end of 2022. Where is the review? It is now six months late and we still do not have it. Two days ago the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, said he was looking at the review. The Minister of State, Deputy...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Grant Payments (18 May 2023)
Thomas Gould: While we are giving commitments, will the Minister of State give a commitment that once the review is announced, both the funding and the thresholds will be increased for this year? To give an example, Wicklow County Council found that five of the 11 possible adaptation grants under the mobility aid grant are now priced at a standard above the threshold. Cork City Council had to return...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Grant Payments (18 May 2023)
Thomas Gould: That is what is happening
- Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Facilities (18 May 2023)
Thomas Gould: 39. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide funding to Cork City Council to source and provide pitches for Glanmire Ladies Football Club. [23535/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (18 May 2023)
Thomas Gould: 137. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of meetings he has had with directors of housing to discuss their readiness for phasing out of the voids return programme. [23531/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (18 May 2023)
Thomas Gould: 176. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homes in the construction status update; the number that have been at their particular stage since Q1 2022; and the number expected to be completed by year end. [23532/23]
- Social Welfare (Child Benefit) Bill 2023: Second Stage (17 May 2023)
Thomas Gould: The Ceann Comhairle is correct but it was Deputies from Government parties who did not take up their slots. They should not be given them.
- Central Statistics Office Sexual Violence Survey 2022: Statements (17 May 2023)
Thomas Gould: Today marks the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia. I know that sexual violence can be, and still is, used as a form of oppression against marginalised groups in our society. Today, I want to send a clear message of solidarity to members of the LGBTQI community, my friends, my family and to everyone who has ever experienced discrimination based on their sexuality...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 May 2023)
Thomas Gould: It is today they cannot give it, not next month or next year.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 May 2023)
Thomas Gould: The Minister cannot-----