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Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (18 Apr 2024)

Thomas Gould: 55. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht for an update on her Department's engagement with Gaeltaca and on the funding of the Irish language, particularly language assistants in schools in Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16991/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (18 Apr 2024)

Thomas Gould: 70. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the date of the last four meetings of the Labour Employer Economic Forum subgroup on collective bargaining; the methods he is using to ensure workers' right to organise is developed in this State; and whether he intends to wait until the deadline of Article 4 of the EU directive before taking any action. [16994/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (18 Apr 2024)

Thomas Gould: 84. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if business in Cork have received payment under the increased cost of business scheme. [16993/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (18 Apr 2024)

Thomas Gould: 188. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason an application for ASD classes in a school (details supplied) was refused; and if she will reconsider this. [17182/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (18 Apr 2024)

Thomas Gould: 189. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether the NCSE refused an application by a school (details supplied) for ASD classes or if this decision was made by her Department. [17183/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (18 Apr 2024)

Thomas Gould: 218. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether requirements for social housing assessment have changed from two months to 12 months of payslips; if so, when this change was made; and if his Department has provided additional resourcing to local authorities to address this additional burden. [17184/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (18 Apr 2024)

Thomas Gould: 219. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the average time to assess a social housing application, by local authority, in tabular form. [17185/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Overcrowding (18 Apr 2024)

Thomas Gould: 292. To ask the Minister for Health the number of days that triage or assessment rooms in CUH ED have been occupied by patients on trolleys, or were unusable for any other reason, in the past 12 weeks, by reason, in tabular form. [17152/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Overcrowding (18 Apr 2024)

Thomas Gould: 293. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that nurses are forced to triage patients in ED waiting rooms due to overcrowding in CUH; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17153/24]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (24 Apr 2024)

Thomas Gould: Good morning. I want to start by laying out the background to the issue relating to SouthDoc in Blackpool. As my constituency colleague, the Minister of State must be well aware of this matter. In 2020, the close of SouthDoc in Blackpool was announced on foot of the Covid-19 crisis. At the time, I raised concerns. Those concerns proved to be well founded when SouthDoc clearly stated that...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (24 Apr 2024)

Thomas Gould: I do not want to be disrespectful, but if the Minister for Health does not understand what is happening in the HSE in the context of SouthDoc in Blackpool, that is shocking. Some €7 million was paid to SouthDoc to provide an out-of-hours service, which it is not doing. If the Minister of State looks at my Facebook page, he will see the number of constituents by whom I have...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (24 Apr 2024)

Thomas Gould: It is not open out of hours.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (24 Apr 2024)

Thomas Gould: Only in Blackpool.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Services (24 Apr 2024)

Thomas Gould: On the north side.

Support for Carers: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024)

Thomas Gould: The treatment of family carers by the State is completely unacceptable. Time and again families come to me exhausted, frustrated and angry because they cannot get the home care packages they need. On occasions when packages are sanctioned, the staff are not available to supply them. They also come to me because they are struggling financially and because they cannot get respite care. I am...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Thomas Gould: I want to come back to the issue of the numbers. Some 14,400 are on the social housing list. Mr. Kelly said that the figure was roughly 59,000. Does that figure include HAP and RAS recipients?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Thomas Gould: What are the numbers for those in receipt of HAP and RAS?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Thomas Gould: From my point of view, because I want to give a true figure of the social housing need, the figure is 120,000 families and individuals. The Government might consider HAP to be social housing, but the vast majority of the people I deal with do not. They are on the transfer list. Of those 60,000 people, how many of those are EEA and non-EEA? Are there any figures for that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Thomas Gould: My next point is regarding the "future intentions" of anyone who applies for social housing. I know many people who apply for social housing. I come from social housing. My mother and father - and God rest my mother's soul - got a house in Knocknaheeny. My dad was able to buy the house later on, but when he signed up for social housing he was never asked about his future intentions. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Thomas Gould: Okay, well I will make the point about-----