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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (18 Jan 2023)

Thomas Gould: 253. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the driver CPC handbook for professional passenger and HGV drivers will be updated. [1566/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (18 Jan 2023)

Thomas Gould: 254. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider instructing the RSA to conduct reviews of existing CPC courses for professional passenger and HGV drivers; and if the operational format of the training could be reformed. [1581/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (18 Jan 2023)

Thomas Gould: 462. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to reports that Cork City Council is requiring applicants for social housing to provide proof of access arrangements through court documents and that the courts do not have capacity to provide these documents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63168/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation (18 Jan 2023)

Thomas Gould: 480. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the dates of the last meetings of each of the Homeless Regional Fora, by forum, in tabular form. [63530/22]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (18 Jan 2023)

Thomas Gould: 643. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if childhood epilepsy, for which no medication is currently required, renders an applicant unfit for the Defence Forces; and the period of time that a person must be medicated and seizure free to progress with an application. [63921/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Services Regulation (18 Jan 2023)

Thomas Gould: 1094. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the timeline, if any, that the Government has to introduce Court and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022, to allow barristers and solicitors to jointly provide legal services in Ireland. [63922/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (18 Jan 2023)

Thomas Gould: 1341. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a monthly limit on the number of nappies that can be supplied for children and or adults with disabilities by a public health nurse. [63876/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (18 Jan 2023)

Thomas Gould: 1502. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding allocated to Cork City Council under a funding stream (details supplied); and the way that organisations can apply for same. [1490/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: North-South Implementation Bodies (25 Jan 2023)

Thomas Gould: To follow on from my party colleague, Deputy Ó Murchú, there is an opportunity here and we hope the Taoiseach, having returned to the office, will grasp it with the shared island unit. We call on the Government to consider a citizens' assembly on Irish unity because we believe we need to plan for this. We are not looking to push any community to where they do not want to go. The...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (24 Jan 2023)

Thomas Gould: 348. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a person (details supplied) still has not obtained school transport despite approval for the scheme. [2840/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Wastewater Treatment (24 Jan 2023)

Thomas Gould: 359. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the new percolation area required for a school (details supplied). [3153/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jan 2023)

Thomas Gould: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jan 2023)

Thomas Gould: I thank the Chair. I appreciate that. I thank the witnesses for joining us here and online. I will pose the same question to them as I have asked every local authority. When a person goes into recovery, is their time on the housing list suspended? I have asked other local authorities this question. If a person spends three, six or even 12 months trying to get on their recovery journey,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jan 2023)

Thomas Gould: Great stuff. Unfortunately, I will have to agree with my colleague Senator Cummins, which does not happen too often,-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jan 2023)

Thomas Gould: -----on the point he made about choice-based letting. We have seen the success of this system in Cork. I believe every local authority should be operating it because it gives choice back to the people when it comes to applying for homes available in local authority areas. Also then it would help local authorities to see where people are interested in living. That gives local authorities...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jan 2023)

Thomas Gould: Does that include people who are on HAP and the RAS?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jan 2023)

Thomas Gould: That is the total figure. I thank Mr. Brannigan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jan 2023)

Thomas Gould: In regard to voids, that is, council properties that are boarded up, what is the timescale for turning those around?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Jan 2023)

Thomas Gould: Depending on the age of the housing stock and how it was looked after when people were living in it, are there blockages? Are there things that the committee could bring forward or raise with the Department, which could help speed up the process? Are there issues with getting resources to turn these properties around, in particular those that would be more complicated or older?