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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (8 Feb 2022)

Thomas Gould: 673. To ask the Minister for Health if general practitioners can charge medical card patients for the health check needed for over 70s applying for a drivers licence. [6140/22]

Competition (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (9 Feb 2022)

Thomas Gould: I welcome the Bill. It is important that we tackle tender rigging, which is a scam and drives up prices. Unfortunately, the Government does not seem to have the same inclination to end bid rigging in the private housing market. Ordinary working families and individuals are trying to buy homes every day but they are being outbid by cuckoo funds. One in five homes in Cork city is being...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Measures (9 Feb 2022)

Thomas Gould: 74. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the updating of regulations to allow for plebiscites to change place names. [7084/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Living Wage (10 Feb 2022)

Thomas Gould: 39. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide an update on the work of the Working Group on the Living Wage. [7013/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (10 Feb 2022)

Thomas Gould: 123. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an update on the work to address equine welfare in Cork city and county. [7010/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (10 Feb 2022)

Thomas Gould: 163. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of reports of equine abuse or neglect to his Department by county in 2021 and 2020. [7011/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (10 Feb 2022)

Thomas Gould: 322. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if support will be provided to a school (details supplied) to open an additional autism spectrum disorder unit. [7121/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (10 Feb 2022)

Thomas Gould: 323. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the process a school undergoes in order to open a new autism spectrum disorder unit. [7122/22]

Tackling the Cost of Living - Institutional Investors in the Residential Property Market: Motion (15 Feb 2022)

Thomas Gould: The Taoiseach, who is a Cork man like myself, has repeatedly tried to play down the damage that is being done by international investment funds in this State by claiming it is only a Dublin issue. It is not only a Dublin issue. My constituents and those of the Taoiseach in Cork are having their hopes and dreams of owning their own homes dashed by these funds coming in and buying up...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Services (15 Feb 2022)

Thomas Gould: 65. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the elective hospital in Cork. [7942/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Services (15 Feb 2022)

Thomas Gould: I am asking the Minister for an update on the proposed new elective hospital for Cork and, in particular, whether a site has been chosen. Government Deputies are claiming a site has been chosen. I do not know about it and, more importantly, the constituents of Cork do not know about it. Will the Minister update us?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Services (15 Feb 2022)

Thomas Gould: I still did not get an answer. Has a site been chosen? That is the question people in Cork want to know. Before the most recent local elections, there was an announcement there would be an announcement where the site would be. There were announcements before the by-election and the most recent general election. That was two years ago and we still do not have a definite site. For the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Services (15 Feb 2022)

Thomas Gould: The Minister said the site has been identified but he is not announcing it at the moment. He also made a point the State is not good at building hospitals. The Government is very good at closing them on the northside of Cork city, however. Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael closed the North Infirmary hospital and the orthopaedic hospital. We have sites like Sarsfieldscourt in Glanmire, the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Services (15 Feb 2022)

Thomas Gould: I would like to let the Minister know there are operating theatres in the orthopaedic hospital that, if refurbished, would help to take the load off the backlog in elective surgeries. Orthopaedic surgeons have come to me-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Services (15 Feb 2022)

Thomas Gould: I just want to let the Minister know.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Services (15 Feb 2022)

Thomas Gould: Does he know there are theatres ready to be used?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (15 Feb 2022)

Thomas Gould: 152. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the reopening of the Keltoi service. [7943/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Urban Development (15 Feb 2022)

Thomas Gould: 342. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the Town Centres First policy applies to towns in urban settings. [7446/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (15 Feb 2022)

Thomas Gould: 379. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of mortgage to rent schemes approved by local authorities since 2018. [8312/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (15 Feb 2022)

Thomas Gould: 380. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the overall total payment by each local authority to an organisation (details supplied) in each of the years 2018 to 2021. [8313/22]