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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Surrounding Water Quality and Supply: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Thomas Gould: Were some of those plants built within the past ten years?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Surrounding Water Quality and Supply: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Thomas Gould: These are historical issues then. That was probably the design at the time-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Surrounding Water Quality and Supply: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Thomas Gould: -----and it is after moving on now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Surrounding Water Quality and Supply: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Thomas Gould: I will go back to the figure of 560,000 people being affected and 243,000 people having ongoing problems. Those are huge figures given the size of the country and our population. Is a figure of 500,000 people being affected a damning indictment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Surrounding Water Quality and Supply: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Thomas Gould: I touched on water quality earlier. I am coming at it from a Cork point of view but it is a national issue when you are dealing with lead pipes. I am not sure if any of the witnesses were involved but I had a number of meetings with Irish Water as a Deputy and when I was a councillor on Cork City Council about the plan in place to reduce the use of lead piping. Unfortunately, I have never...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Surrounding Water Quality and Supply: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Thomas Gould: What are lead services?

Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Second Stage (11 Oct 2022)

Thomas Gould: The Taoiseach says that no one will face disconnections this winter. He says that people will not be left sitting in cold, dark houses. What he has not said is how this is going to be accomplished or how the 400,000 people with prepaid meters will be looked after. These are vulnerable people who are now terrified because of the lack of information and direction from the Government. This...

Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (11 Oct 2022)

Thomas Gould: In County Cork, 2,000 children are waiting for a first appointment with a CDNT. Children and adults with disabilities deserve better. Parents are being offered online courses and videos. These are not therapies nor are they a substitute for therapy. They can be important for parents when the therapies are given as a support, but not instead of them. CDNTs have a huge amount of staff...

Community and Voluntary Sector Workers: Motion [Private Members] (12 Oct 2022)

Thomas Gould: I congratulate the Ireland women's soccer team on its fabulous victory last night and on qualifying for the World Cup. I particularly congratulate Denise O'Sullivan from Knocknaheeny in my community. The whole country is very proud of all of them. This is a vital motion and I thank the Labour Party for bringing it forward. What I do not want is for the Government to support it and then...

Derelict Sites (Amendment) Bill 2022: First Stage (12 Oct 2022)

Thomas Gould: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend and extend the Derelict Sites Act 1990 and to provide for related matters. I have spent a lot of time over the past 13 years as a public representative, particularly the past two years as a Deputy, raising the issue of dereliction. I have walked around the dereliction in Cork, met with local authorities, raised...

Derelict Sites (Amendment) Bill 2022: First Stage (12 Oct 2022)

Thomas Gould: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (11 Oct 2022)

Thomas Gould: 130. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if each child who requires a place in an ASD unit will obtain same in September 2023. [49677/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (11 Oct 2022)

Thomas Gould: 136. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to a school (details supplied) that will be forced to fundraise for an adequate school hall in its new school building. [49676/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (11 Oct 2022)

Thomas Gould: 315. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will request local authorities not to remove a person who has entered addiction rehabilitation from the social housing waiting list. [49642/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (11 Oct 2022)

Thomas Gould: 316. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there is a restriction on recording full council meetings in either a statutory instrument or legislation. [49657/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Children in Care (13 Oct 2022)

Thomas Gould: 99. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions that he is taking to increase foster care allowance. [49682/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Children in Care (13 Oct 2022)

Thomas Gould: This question is to ask the Minister what actions he is taking to increase the foster care allowance since it has not been increased in 13 years.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Children in Care (13 Oct 2022)

Thomas Gould: I welcome the Minister's announcement that a once-off payment will be made to foster carers before the end of the year. This is welcome. It is not, however, an answer to the question I asked regarding foster carers not receiving a pay increase in 13 years. Foster carers do some of the most important yet toughest work in their own homes, day in and day out. They do not sign off at the end...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Children in Care (13 Oct 2022)

Thomas Gould: I hear what the Minister is saying. He spoke on Newstalk recently and said that he wished he had offered foster carers an increase in the budget. Now, though, the Minister seemed to be going back on that statement. We are seeking a commitment from him for an increase in the allowance paid to foster carers. There has been a great deal of talk from Ministers after the fact saying this is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Children in Care (13 Oct 2022)

Thomas Gould: But after a year, in layman's terms, that is too long.