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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Construction Costs in Housing: Discussion (24 May 2022)
Thomas Gould: I suppose my question is why are local authorities not delivering direct-build social, affordable and cost-rental properties when we are in the middle of a housing crisis? We know it is a model that worked in the past.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Construction Costs in Housing: Discussion (24 May 2022)
Thomas Gould: I have no issue with the local authorities bringing in the private sector, but we should have both. We should have direct-build social, affordable and cost rental properties along with contractors. We are in the worst housing crisis in the history of the State and local authorities have a proven track record of delivering. During the financial crisis, many apprentices were partly through...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Construction Costs in Housing: Discussion (24 May 2022)
Thomas Gould: My next question is for the SCSI and CIF. Until now, people building one-off housing may have wanted to build a carbon-neutral or zero-carbon home with inbuilt environmental aspects to make them as environmentally-friendly as possible. Given the increase in the cost of construction, have people changed the type of house they want to build? Have they stepped back and decided they cannot...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Construction Costs in Housing: Discussion (24 May 2022)
Thomas Gould: We need to provide the right type of housing - sustainable and carbon-neutral housing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Construction Costs in Housing: Discussion (24 May 2022)
Thomas Gould: Will the current increases in construction costs have a detrimental effect on the delivery of such housing?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Construction Costs in Housing: Discussion (24 May 2022)
Thomas Gould: That means increased construction costs.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Construction Costs in Housing: Discussion (24 May 2022)
Thomas Gould: My first point relates to apprenticeships. We need to reach our goals in increasing the number of apprentices in all trades but we also need to have better pay and conditions and better security. Apprenticeships in countries such as Germany are much more highly valued than they are here. College is seen as the number one goal when people are leaving school, with apprenticeships valued...
- Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (19 May 2022)
Thomas Gould: 34. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of the implementation of legislation to prevent, in the future, a situation similar to that of a company (details supplied). [25372/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Low Pay (19 May 2022)
Thomas Gould: 42. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of the report received by the Low Wage Commission. [25371/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (19 May 2022)
Thomas Gould: 126. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when technological university funding status will be given equal standing to NUI universities. [25374/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (19 May 2022)
Thomas Gould: 156. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has considered an increase to apprenticeship rates given the rising cost of living. [25373/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (19 May 2022)
Thomas Gould: 371. To ask the Minister for Health if he will request the HSE to recoup money spent by the family of a person (details supplied); and if he intends to remedy this situation for other families in a similar position. [25547/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (19 May 2022)
Thomas Gould: 378. To ask the Minister for Health the amount allocated to Cork Kerry Community Healthcare in 2021; the amount drawn-down; and the amount spent. [25599/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (19 May 2022)
Thomas Gould: 379. To ask the Minister for Health the amount allocated to CAMHS in counties Cork and Kerry in 2021; the amount drawn-down; and the amount spent. [25600/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (19 May 2022)
Thomas Gould: 380. To ask the Minister for Health the funding of returns, by CHO of community healthcare in 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form. [25601/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (19 May 2022)
Thomas Gould: 381. To ask the Minister for Health the amount allocated to COPE in counties Cork and Kerry in 2021; the amount drawn-down; and the amount spent. [25602/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (19 May 2022)
Thomas Gould: 382. To ask the Minister for Health the amount allocated to NAS in counties Cork and Kerry in 2021; the amount drawn-down; and the amount spent. [25603/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (19 May 2022)
Thomas Gould: 383. To ask the Minister for Health the amount allocated to the Brothers of Charity in counties Cork and Kerry in 2021; the amount drawn-down; and the amount spent. [25604/22]
- Subsidies for Developers: Motion [Private Members] (18 May 2022)
Thomas Gould: I thank Deputy Cian O'Callaghan and the Social Democrats for bringing forward this motion. What is shows, and having listened to the Minister, is how out of the touch he is with ordinary people. When the Opposition comes together to put forward proposals and to highlight problems with the Government's strategy on solving the housing crisis, we know the attitude he adopts to the Opposition....
- Subsidies for Developers: Motion [Private Members] (18 May 2022)
Thomas Gould: Shocking.