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- Committee on Drugs Use: Drug Use Policy: HSE, Department of Justice and Department of Health (20 Jun 2024)
Thomas Gould: I am sorry, but I am just conscious of time. How does that tie into Keltoi not being open and when----
- Committee on Drugs Use: Drug Use Policy: HSE, Department of Justice and Department of Health (20 Jun 2024)
Thomas Gould: Has that decision not been made?
- Committee on Drugs Use: Drug Use Policy: HSE, Department of Justice and Department of Health (20 Jun 2024)
Thomas Gould: Have resources been looked for or have they been denied?
- Committee on Drugs Use: Drug Use Policy: HSE, Department of Justice and Department of Health (20 Jun 2024)
Thomas Gould: I am looking for honest answers here. Is the reason Keltoi is not open that the Government has not given the funding to open it?
- Committee on Drugs Use: Drug Use Policy: HSE, Department of Justice and Department of Health (20 Jun 2024)
Thomas Gould: When?
- Committee on Drugs Use: Drug Use Policy: HSE, Department of Justice and Department of Health (20 Jun 2024)
Thomas Gould: Keltoi has been closed a couple of years now. It was closed under the guise of Covid. Then it was used as a Covid centre for marginalised and vulnerable people. To be honest, this is a sham. I want to ask a straight question now.
- Committee on Drugs Use: Drug Use Policy: HSE, Department of Justice and Department of Health (20 Jun 2024)
Thomas Gould: I agree with Ms Queally 100%. I just want to know-----
- Committee on Drugs Use: Drug Use Policy: HSE, Department of Justice and Department of Health (20 Jun 2024)
Thomas Gould: Vice Chair, I just want an answer. Has money been applied for and who has not given the money?
- Committee on Drugs Use: Drug Use Policy: HSE, Department of Justice and Department of Health (20 Jun 2024)
Thomas Gould: By the HSE.
- Committee on Drugs Use: Drug Use Policy: HSE, Department of Justice and Department of Health (20 Jun 2024)
Thomas Gould: Ms Queally means the Department of Health.
- Committee on Drugs Use: Drug Use Policy: HSE, Department of Justice and Department of Health (20 Jun 2024)
Thomas Gould: Vice Chair, this is shocking.
- Committee on Drugs Use: Drug Use Policy: HSE, Department of Justice and Department of Health (20 Jun 2024)
Thomas Gould: I look forward to seeing that note because no excuses are acceptable for the delay in not reopening the Keltoi unit and not having it offering residential care too. I am not looking for a nine-to-five, Monday-to-Friday service because that is not going to run here. I will also be talking to Deputy Cullinane about this issue too. Deputy Ward and I have been commenting on the Keltoi unit for...
- Committee on Drugs Use: Drug Use Policy: HSE, Department of Justice and Department of Health (20 Jun 2024)
Thomas Gould: I request that this be done. There are different issues here, but we need more information on young people at risk in relation to drugs. It is all about the data because it will tell us what we can do. I had a case in Cork where a person was selling these new psychotic drugs. I contacted the local gardaí. They felt they did not have the training to prosecute under the criminal...
- Committee on Drugs Use: Drug Use Policy: HSE, Department of Justice and Department of Health (20 Jun 2024)
Thomas Gould: I am referring to these new synthetic drugs coming onto the market. They used to be sold in head shops. The witnesses might remember there was a gap in the legislation when head shops were selling these materials. The loophole was closed but the normal gardaí on the beat I spoke to in Cork did not have the training. This should certainly be part of the training for gardaí in...
- Committee on Drugs Use: Drug Use Policy: HSE, Department of Justice and Department of Health (20 Jun 2024)
Thomas Gould: I just have one question. It is a yes-no answer.
- Committee on Drugs Use: Drug Use Policy: HSE, Department of Justice and Department of Health (20 Jun 2024)
Thomas Gould: I welcome the news that the supervised injecting facility will be open in quarter 4 of 2024. Has it been considered to provide safe consumption rooms and there is any timeline for delivery for Cork and Limerick?
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (20 Jun 2024)
Thomas Gould: 144. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the PSEHRD assessment his Department has undertaken regarding reported difficulties by Travellers to open housing applications and retain open application given that this has been an action under the current NTRIS, and the Minister has a clear responsibility regarding the accuracy of housing lists given his Department...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Thomas Gould: On local authority voids and vacant houses. We have seen a very slow turnaround time in many, though not all, local authorities. What can the Minister do to help turn these houses around? In Cork city there can be up to 500 voids at any one time and hundreds more in the county. I am looking for a solution here. What can the Department do to turn these around? I have a suggestion....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Thomas Gould: Sorry. I am conscious of time. We know where we are now.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)
Thomas Gould: Reports from the National Oversight and Audit Commission, NOAC, and others show that some local authorities are taking over a year to turn around a vacant house. I am asking what we can do going forward. I am not being critical but what we can do now? We have 500 families in Cork who could be housed tomorrow if these houses were given out.