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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (18 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: I will send on my response to you so you can have it as well.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (18 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: There is no incentive there. Obviously, you do not-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Further and Higher Education (18 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: That is because hundreds of thousands went away after the financial crash. The Minister is including those people.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Quality (17 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: Not down in Cork.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Quality (17 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: We need a date. I do not think it is unreasonable to look for a date for when we will have clean drinking water in Cork.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Quality (17 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: He is the Minister. If the Minister cannot tell us when we will have clean water-----

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Quality (17 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: No, but it is important that the job is done properly.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Quality (17 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: The Minister of State named out areas and I will give a few more. Ballyvolane and Gurranabraher have had a problem for more than a year - 15 months. People in Ballyvolane have sent me photographs of filthy water. You would want to see what is coming out of people's taps. The Minister of State mentioned a couple of areas such as Dublin Hill. I was contacted by a resident in Dublin Hill...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Quality (17 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: This is a very serious issue and I have no faith that Uisce Éireann is dealing with it.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Quality (17 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: For more than a year I have been receiving complaints about dirty, discoloured water. Before Christmas I put out a call asking people to contact me or my office if they have issues with discoloured and dirty water. Hundreds of people in Cork contacted me to say that they have had discoloured and dirty water for months, on and off. Before Christmas I met with Uisce Éireann. I was...

Investment Funds Trading in the Residential Property Market: Motion [Private Members] (17 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: No doubt the Minister of State, Deputy Richmond, will list off all that the Government thinks it has done since it came to office and say how great it is and how we are turning the corner. My God, it must be the biggest corner of all time. We see, in Belcamp Manor, 46 homes, or 85% of the homes there, bought by a vulture fund. Why are people surprised by this? It is a Fine Gael policy....

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: Just before Christmas, I had a meeting with Bus Éireann in Cork to discuss major problems there with the bus service. People have been contacting me about buses being late, delayed or not turning up, and there are major problems with the app not being accurate and people waiting at bus stops. I have been contacted by a bus driver who has given us proof that last week, 14 bus services...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: How can we get them out of their cars if they cannot get a bus? The last point I will make is to ask whether the Minister will provide funding to Bus Éireann in Cork to take on additional drivers, because otherwise this service will be a laughing stock.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: In Australia.

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Budget Statement 2024 (10 Oct 2023)

Thomas Gould: He should show the speaker a little bit of respect.

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Human Trafficking) Bill 2023: Second Stage (4 Oct 2023)

Thomas Gould: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Bill and acknowledge the long journey that has taken us to this place. In 2019, when Deputies Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire and Martin Kenny published their Bill, it was clear that no victim of sexual assault should face questioning on their clothing in a courtroom without legal representation. Some four years later, following Trojan work by victim...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (21 Sep 2023)

Thomas Gould: The Minister is a great man for the facts. The real facts and the truth on the ground is that last year he and the Government delivered 323 affordable houses and 135 of them were in Cork. I can be critical of Cork City Council sometimes, but on affordable housing, it has led the way. The Minister gave it a target of 278, to be completed by 2026. It will probably have it met next year or,...

Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) (Cap on Market Revenues) Bill 2023: Second Stage (21 Sep 2023)

Thomas Gould: Energy companies made huge profits on the backs of ordinary hardworking people and families. The Government allowed this to happen. It stood idly by while Europe moved ahead to bring in windfall taxes. I welcome the Bill, but as others have said, it is too little, too late and not enough. Ordinary people have suffered. The question now is whether the Government will finally grasp the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (21 Sep 2023)

Thomas Gould: Cork University Hospital, CUH, is a hospital that is constantly overcrowded and understaffed. The staff members there do Trojan work in the face of huge difficulties often caused by the failure of successive Governments to invest in healthcare in Cork. In recent weeks, they have been informed that their car park is to close. This was done without consultation with their union, the Irish...

Mortgage Interest Relief: Motion (20 Sep 2023)

Thomas Gould: Does the Minister know the fear many people felt last July when the first interest rate hike was announced? Can he imagine the fear they felt last week when the tenth interest rate hike was announced? These are families who are struggling and are waiting on the Minister. A man who lives in Cork contacted me. His current mortgage interest rate is double what it was 18 months ago. He said...