Results 21-40 of 1,335 for cork speaker:Thomas Gould

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (14 May 2024)

Thomas Gould: 124. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment for an update on the National Broadband Plan in Cork. [21617/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (14 May 2024)

Thomas Gould: 217. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason the northern transport project for Cork city has not been included in the National Development Plan interactive transport map. [21671/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (14 May 2024)

Thomas Gould: 223. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether consideration will be given to providing a stop for the 203 bus in Onslow Gardens in Cork city, given it once stopped there. [21798/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Development Projects (9 May 2024)

Thomas Gould: ...jobs. What do we want them to do? Do we want them filling in forms and have that as their job, or do we want them out helping young people? They have a summer camp that children from all over Cork city come to join. All I am saying is that community groups might not have the resources or skills to get these projects over the line. They need to be supported. Along with the funding...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Development Projects (9 May 2024)

Thomas Gould: 3. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if her Department will provide assistance to develop a community centre in Fair Hill, Cork city. [20940/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Development Projects (9 May 2024)

Thomas Gould: I ask the Minister to provide an update on whether she will provide assistance to develop a community centre in the Fair Hill-Fairfield area of Cork city.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Development Projects (9 May 2024)

Thomas Gould: ...have not had a community centre for decades. For the past ten years, this brilliant community has again been trying to develop a community centre. At the moment, it has a two-bedroom house from Cork City Council, to which hundreds of children come for youth groups every week. There is also a men's shed group and an art group making use of this little two-bedroom house. This community...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (8 May 2024)

Thomas Gould: ...able to fix everything but if the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, were to provide €150,000, the therapies that are needed could be provided. It is shocking that more than 750 children in Cork are waiting on assessments of needs. The waiting time for an assessment of needs 12 weeks before the process starts and 26 weeks before it finishes. A total of 750 children have been...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (2 May 2024)

Thomas Gould: Kinsale and Bandon are not local, just to let the Minister of State know that. I see parents who have to take their kids all over Cork. It is not good enough.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (2 May 2024)

Thomas Gould: ...the way Scoil Eoin in Ballincollig has been treated. It is insulting to the seriousness of this issue we have tabled that the Ministers are not here to discuss it. Scoil Eoin in Ballincollig in Cork has been trying to secure special classes for over 11 years, since 2013. The principal, staff, board of management and parents have done everything they could to work with the Department to...

Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (2 May 2024)

Thomas Gould: I remember standing outside Collins Barracks in Cork with wives, partners, mothers and children who were fighting to improve the terms and conditions of their husbands, partners and loved ones in the Defence Forces because they did not have the ability to do it themselves. I know that is the core of this Bill but it does not go far enough. Members of the Defence Forces must be listened to...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 May 2024)

Thomas Gould: A freedom of information request that I received showed that 15,000 people applied for just 75 homes in Cork city in a seven-week period. That is an average of 200 families for every home that came on choice-based letting, CBL. In just one allocation, seven two-bedroom properties received 945 applications. The Tánaiste talks about the Government turning a corner but for the 938...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (2 May 2024)

Thomas Gould: ...were sanctioned a number of years earlier and if the Government and the Minister of State's predecessor had not delayed, Glanmire would not have flooded that day. Areas such as Blackpool in Cork flood constantly. Will the Minister of State provide funding to enable local authorities to put in eco-drains and flood protection measures? At the top of Knocknaheeny, an area I represent,...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (2 May 2024)

Thomas Gould: 101. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for an update on National Development Plan projects in Cork city. [19709/24]

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 May 2024)

Thomas Gould: ...about it. I was talking to people in GAA clubs over the weekend. I was talking to a club treasurer and I asked him if his club could operate without the €4,000 or €5,000 it makes through the Cork county board members' draw every year. He asked me where the club would get the money. We are only an average-sized club in a predominantly working-class area and that is gold to...

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 May 2024)

Thomas Gould: ...up a car worth €31,000. Is it the case now that the Society of St. Vincent de Paul cannot advertise as a result of this legislation? It is not just that one case. We have the Marymount Hospice in Cork, which gets the majority of its money through fundraising. The Government should be providing that funding. It should not be up to people to go out and fundraise for people who...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Pleanáil Teanga Lasmuigh den Ghaeltacht: Plé (1 May 2024)

Thomas Gould: ...was hoping that when the girls went to Gaelscoil Pheig Sayers, we would speak Irish at home and they would drag me on. Unfortunately, I embarrassed them too much and that was that. Just to get back to the situation in Cork, my memory of Gael-Taca was going into a building in the centre of Cork city where people could speak the language. It was very open. I struggled with the language...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Pleanáil Teanga Lasmuigh den Ghaeltacht: Plé (1 May 2024)

Thomas Gould: ...business park and had no playground or anything like that. It was unbelievable. The school was formed in 1986 by Brother Jack Beausang and some parents in the Farranree area, on the north side of Cork city, who wanted a Gaelscoil. They could not get funding from the Department and had to run raffles and draws. They set up the school in the Na Piarsaigh GAA Club. It was completely...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (30 Apr 2024)

Thomas Gould: ...deserve answers. I had a parent in with me during the week. She has a child with additional needs who cannot settle in the school she has to travel to out in Blarney. I do not know if the Minister knows Cork that well but the child had to go out from Churchfield out to Blarney and in the end, the child gave up. If we do not get the Before 5 centre open in September, where is that child...

Petrol and Diesel Excise Rate Increases: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (30 Apr 2024)

Thomas Gould: ...trying to send their kids to school or college and to go to work. The Minister of State talks about a just transition. Can I explain something? If the Minister of State ever goes to Grenagh in Cork North-Central, which is my constituency, in a rural area, or to Whitechurch, Carrignavar, Glenville or Watergrasshill, he will see that people do not have one or two cars in the drive but...