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Protection of Employees (Employers’ Insolvency) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (28 May 2025)

Thomas Gould: Time was provided for Government TDs. They should have taken it.

Protection of Employees (Employers’ Insolvency) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (28 May 2025)

Thomas Gould: I am proud to stand here to discuss and remember what the Debenhams workers went through under this Government. I know people will say this is a new Government but Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael were in the last Government. The Debenhams workers stood up for their rights for 406 days. Government TDs stood in the picket lines with them. I was there and those TDs spoke about what they were...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (27 May 2025)

Thomas Gould: We are talking about the shortage of 15,000 houses that we need to deliver. We know they can be delivered. What needs to be done to deliver them using vacant and derelict properties? There are over 150,000 vacant properties at present and thousands of derelict sites. Should there be a key investment by the Government in this regard to deliver on top of the new builds we need?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (27 May 2025)

Thomas Gould: Reference was made on several occasions to modern methods of construction, new technologies and modular homes. The figures for modular homes delivered by the last Government show they were as expensive as traditional homes. One reason was that none of the infrastructure was in place. There was no water, no wastewater facilities, no electricity and no roads. We have a major problem at the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (27 May 2025)

Thomas Gould: 678. To ask the Minister for Health the date on which the HSE gave formal approval for the amalgamation of Southdoc routine appointments to the Kinsale Road location. [26968/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (27 May 2025)

Thomas Gould: 679. To ask the Minister for Health the grade level at which the HSE gave formal approval for the amalgamation of Southdoc routine appointments to the Kinsale Road location. [26969/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Priorities (28 May 2025)

Thomas Gould: 90. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether he intends to bring forward any initiatives to tackle scrambler usage. [27969/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Seized Property (28 May 2025)

Thomas Gould: 306. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of scramblers seized in Cork in each of the past 12 months. [27968/25]

Housing: Statements (10 Jun 2025)

Thomas Gould: Two weeks ago, Cork City Council announced an affordable housing scheme. This will be delivered through the Department's funding and by Cork City Council. There is shock that it will cost just under €400,000 to buy one of these properties. For years people who cannot get a mortgage and who do not quality for social housing have been contacting my office and I have been telling them...

Vacant Council Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jun 2025)

Thomas Gould: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — there are at least 2,656 vacant council homes, excluding Approved Housing Bodies (AHB) homes, across the State, including 776 homes vacant longer than 12 months; — the National Oversight and Audit Commission Performance Indicator Report 2023, found that the average reletting time was above 33 weeks and cost, on average,...

Vacant Council Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jun 2025)

Thomas Gould: Will the Minister think of the families? I ask him to reconsider his motion and to support ours.

Vacant Council Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jun 2025)

Thomas Gould: I did one last month and the figure is 2,700.

Vacant Council Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jun 2025)

Thomas Gould: No. The figure we mentioned was €11,000.

Vacant Council Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jun 2025)

Thomas Gould: That is the same thing

Vacant Council Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jun 2025)

Thomas Gould: The authority did not have the money.

Vacant Council Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jun 2025)

Thomas Gould: It did not have the money.

Vacant Council Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jun 2025)

Thomas Gould: The Minister is having a laugh when he is blaming local authorities when he will not do his job.

Vacant Council Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jun 2025)

Thomas Gould: They are not getting the money.

Vacant Council Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jun 2025)

Thomas Gould: You are the Minister. Is he the Minister?

Vacant Council Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jun 2025)

Thomas Gould: He was asking me a question.