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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (8 Apr 2025)

Thomas Gould: The Minister of State is coming in here telling people a school will be open but it will not be.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (8 Apr 2025)

Thomas Gould: There are ten houses built in Carrignavar that cannot be connected to the water-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (8 Apr 2025)

Thomas Gould: -----and you are talking about opening a school.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Schools Building Projects (8 Apr 2025)

Thomas Gould: The Minister spoke about school completions, the number of people working on them and the work that is being done. My eldest daughter will be 19 in less than two weeks. She attended Gaelscoil Pheig Sayers when she was five. I was on the board of management. A new school is going to be built, probably in two or three years. It has been sanctioned and is going through design. Gaelscoil...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (8 Apr 2025)

Thomas Gould: The Minister of State made a point about school places in Cork and Kerry. We have schools that are looking to put in ASD classes. They are crying out for ASD classes. Scoil Eoin in Ballincollig is looking to put them in, but it cannot. It has no room. It is waiting on a rebuild. It looks like Scoil Barra in Ballincollig will be offered prefabs. It has land it wants to build on to put...

Water Services (Repeal of Water Charges) Bill 2025: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Apr 2025)

Thomas Gould: Gabhaim buíochas. Officials from Uisce Éireann met with Cork City Council last night. They refused to attend the meeting if it was in public and failed to answer many of the legitimate questions posed by councillors. I met them in February and I was told I would receive responses to my questions that evening. It took a full month before I got a response back. Uisce...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Apr 2025)

Thomas Gould: The Taoiseach will have seen the campaign run by parents to get special school places for their children both nationally and in Cork. They have fought a Trojan campaign. There was an announcement last week that there would be additional places but it is an absolute scandal that parents must go out and fight for their children's right to an education. In 2022, there was an announcement for...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Apr 2025)

Thomas Gould: Yes.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Apr 2025)

Thomas Gould: Taoiseach, it was Irish Water-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Apr 2025)

Thomas Gould: It is Irish Water that cannot facilitate this. There is no capacity in Carrignavar.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Consultations (3 Apr 2025)

Thomas Gould: 71. To ask the Minister for Finance to report on the latest briefing he received from his Department on the delivery of housing. [15232/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (3 Apr 2025)

Thomas Gould: 100. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is aware of an unfair regional balancing in Capital spending under the NDP given Cork’s potential to counterbalance Dublin. [15234/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Functions (3 Apr 2025)

Thomas Gould: 134. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the role his Department takes in the oversight of value for money exercises. [15233/25]

Diverting Young People from Criminal Activity: Statements (2 Apr 2025)

Thomas Gould: We sincerely want to work with the Minister on this. We will support positive initiatives but in the austerity years, funding for youth clubs, youth projects and education were all slashed, whether these were for diverse communities, the Travelling community or working-class areas. We need that funding restored. That is the first thing I ask for. Second, we need investment in more...

Housing Emergency Measures: Motion [Private Members] (2 Apr 2025)

Thomas Gould: We need to treat the housing emergency in the same way we treated Covid. The whole of Government needs to get behind this, as does the Opposition, to come up with solutions. I do not want to see 4,653 children in emergency accommodation. I asked the Minister's predecessor how many children must become homeless before the Government finally accepts its policies are wrong. I will ask the...

Support for Householders, Businesses and Farmers Affected by Storm Éowyn: Motion [Private Members] (1 Apr 2025)

Thomas Gould: In 2024, the ESB made €706 million in profit. At the same time the ESB and the Government have failed to put the proper infrastructure in place to prevent the loss of electricity that carried on for weeks in some areas because of Storm Éowyn. While the ESB decides what to do with €706 million in profit, some people are struggling to keep the light and heat on, and to pay...

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Thomas Gould: You have your finger in the pie.

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Thomas Gould: Shocking behaviour. Disgraceful.

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Thomas Gould: There are 5,000 children homeless.

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Thomas Gould: There are 5,000-----