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Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Thomas Gould: 1217. To ask the Minister for Health if dog day care centres can remain open under current level 5 guidelines. [32686/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Thomas Gould: 1384. To ask the Minister for Health if weight consultation and weight loss support groups are an essential service (details supplied). [33484/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Thomas Gould: 1229. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which the R number is calculated; and if this is in line with international best practice for the validation of computer systems [32723/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Thomas Gould: 1248. To ask the Minister for Health if two-parent households can avail of casual childminding services, that is, grandparents minding in their own home or the household’s home under new restrictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32773/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Thomas Gould: 1264. To ask the Minister for Health if painters and decorators are allowed to enter homes to carry out their work under new level 5 restrictions. [32832/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Referendum on Right to Housing: Discussion (3 Nov 2020)

Thomas Gould: I thank the witnesses for their attendance. This is a major issue. In my maiden speech after I was first elected to Cork City Council in 2009, I spoke on the homelessness and housing crisis. I was actually challenged on that and told that there was no crisis but anyone who was on the ground could see it. Here we are 11 years later in the midst of the worst housing crisis in the history of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Referendum on Right to Housing: Discussion (3 Nov 2020)

Thomas Gould: I offer our support, and we will do whatever we can. As Deputy Ó Broin said, we feel this is a vital piece of work that needs to be done as quickly as possible and we would prefer to move ahead together.

Level 5 Response to Covid-19: Statements (23 Oct 2020)

Thomas Gould: On 10 September, the Minister of State at the Department of Health, Deputy Feighan, announced in the House that he had approved emergency funding to offset the cost of delivering drug and alcohol services in a Covid-19 environment. Six weeks on, there have been two upward movements in levels and four Government scandals, but the funding is still not available. The only response I have...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (23 Oct 2020)

Thomas Gould: I asked the Minister a question.

Health (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (23 Oct 2020)

Thomas Gould: Over the weekend, we heard about how the tracking and tracing system broke down and collapsed. I wish to briefly outline what that meant for me and my family. My wife is a secondary schoolteacher and last Thursday she was notified by the Covid app that she was a close contact of someone who had tested positive. The same day, her school notified her that a positive case in the school had...

Residential Tenancies Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2020)

Thomas Gould: I hope this group of amendments will be taken on board by the Minister. The Bill seeks to address the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic and the associated restrictions for people who are limited to a 5 km radius in trying to find rental accommodation. The Minister said earlier in his contribution that he noticed in August and September that 182 notices to quit were issued.

Residential Tenancies Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2020)

Thomas Gould: These are families and individuals who could technically become homeless. As a consequence of the ban on evictions during the first phase of lockdown, we saw the homeless figures go down, but because of what happened in July, we will start to see the figures go up again. I am telling the Minister what people are telling me when they ring me in my constituency office. I know of one family...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic (22 Oct 2020)

Thomas Gould: 73. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if gyms can remain open for individual training under level 4 restrictions as per the Living With Covid-19 Roadmap; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32212/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment (22 Oct 2020)

Thomas Gould: 77. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of HAP tenancies awaiting standards compliance inspections by local authority in tabular form [32232/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment (22 Oct 2020)

Thomas Gould: 78. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the legislative timeframe for standards compliance inspection under the HAP scheme [32233/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Management (22 Oct 2020)

Thomas Gould: 79. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the frequency with which local authorities manager reports should be published and distributed. [32132/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (22 Oct 2020)

Thomas Gould: 81. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the allocation for vacant house funding will cover the cost of refurbishment of the 180 planned houses or will Cork City Council will be required to meet any deficit. [32240/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (21 Oct 2020)

Thomas Gould: 149. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way in which pandemic unemployment payments interact with other social welfare payments including disability allowance and the means testing of same. [31838/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (21 Oct 2020)

Thomas Gould: 229. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider a case on compassionate grounds of a person (details supplied) who is awaiting an assessment of needs as they are require intervention and supports [31845/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Care Services (20 Oct 2020)

Thomas Gould: 464. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of day care centres that have reopened in County Cork; and the number that will reopen before 1 November 2020. [31713/20]