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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (23 Sep 2021)

Thomas Gould: 148. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to significant delays in the opening of a new special school in Carrigaline, County Cork, an appeal from the school due to understaffing and the fact that the school is now being forced to open without full completion of the outside garden and play areas. [45596/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (23 Sep 2021)

Thomas Gould: 189. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the schemes available for employers looking to recruit outside of the State. [45759/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Quality and Infrastructure and Small Town and Villages Growth Programme: Discussion (23 Sep 2021)

Thomas Gould: I thank everyone for coming in. I have a number of questions I wish to ask, and if I could get short, concise answers, I would really appreciate it. The first question I have is as a result of what happened in August. What will Irish Water do to ease people's minds and build up confidence again in water quality and in Irish Water? Many people are very upset. Second, what has Irish...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Quality and Infrastructure and Small Town and Villages Growth Programme: Discussion (23 Sep 2021)

Thomas Gould: On that point, from what I can gather, when local politicians and others raised the issues in August they were dismissed. People were coming to them saying they had tummy bugs and people were feeling ill. Some had to go to hospital. How could what Mr. Gleeson outlines have happened then?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Quality and Infrastructure and Small Town and Villages Growth Programme: Discussion (23 Sep 2021)

Thomas Gould: In the last 12 months how many other notifications has Irish Water received from the HSE or from people who felt ill because of drinking water and water quality issues?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Quality and Infrastructure and Small Town and Villages Growth Programme: Discussion (23 Sep 2021)

Thomas Gould: With regard to carrying out audits, three of the 20 plants identified are in Cork - Inniscarra, Lee Road and Glashaboy. When was the last time audits took place there? When will the findings of all the audits be out? Will they be made public? How long is it expected to take the 20 audits to be completed? There are 175 facilities in Cork so could we have a timeline? Mr. Gleeson said...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Water Quality and Infrastructure and Small Town and Villages Growth Programme: Discussion (23 Sep 2021)

Thomas Gould: I am sorry, Chairman, but the question we can come back to later is whether the EPA inspectors will be involved.

Housing for All: Statements (28 Sep 2021)

Thomas Gould: Nothing was built.

Housing for All: Statements (28 Sep 2021)

Thomas Gould: Stop, stop.

Housing for All: Statements (28 Sep 2021)

Thomas Gould: They are the Government's rules.

Housing for All: Statements (28 Sep 2021)

Thomas Gould: We do not.

Housing for All: Statements (28 Sep 2021)

Thomas Gould: The Minister calls this policy Housing for All. It will provide housing for some but not for ordinary people. It will provide housing for developers, landowners, speculators, investment and vulture funds, and greedy landlords but not for ordinary people who are trying to put a roof over their heads and pay a rent or mortgage that is sustainable. The Minister is there with his partners in...

Housing for All: Statements (28 Sep 2021)

Thomas Gould: Will he come with me because he must not have been looking at where the dereliction was.

Housing for All: Statements (28 Sep 2021)

Thomas Gould: The Minister is sitting there in his ivory tower with his Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and speculator buddies while we are on the ground with ordinary people who are suffering. That is the difference. The Minister spoke about ideology, and there is a problem with it because the Government believes in looking after the well-to-do and the wealthy developers. People do not have homes, they are...

Housing for All: Statements (28 Sep 2021)

Thomas Gould: That was confidence and supply.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (28 Sep 2021)

Thomas Gould: I find the Minister's responses funny.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (28 Sep 2021)

Thomas Gould: I am relaxed.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Vacant Properties (28 Sep 2021)

Thomas Gould: I feel as though I am at born-again revival listening to Deputies from the Government parties talking about thousands of vacant and derelict properties. The official figure is more than 92,000. In Cork city and county - I thank Deputy O'Connor for raising the question - there are more than 9,000 vacant properties. The Minister indicated that he has been travelling throughout the State...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Vacant Properties (28 Sep 2021)

Thomas Gould: I gave the then Minister, Deputy Coveney, the solutions five years ago.

Afghanistan Crisis: Statements (29 Sep 2021)

Thomas Gould: I welcome the Government's decision to take in an additional 500 refugees. That is to be commended and acknowledged, as my party colleagues have done. I cannot even begin to imagine the experience of women and girls in Afghanistan over the past month. My thoughts are with those who have lost loved ones or fled their homes or who feel they are no longer safe and have no hope. The US,...