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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Amalgamation (13 May 2021)

Thomas Gould: 166. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the proposed amalgamation of schools (details supplied) in County Cork. [25089/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (13 May 2021)

Thomas Gould: 416. To ask the Minister for Health the number of nurses, consultants, doctors, administrators and HCAs respectively employed in Cork University Hospital from January 2020 to date by month in tabular form. [25265/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Housing Schemes (12 May 2021)

Thomas Gould: 95. To ask the Minister for Finance the provisions in place for persons that have lost their home to repossession or recession to purchase a home now in cases in which they cannot save the 20% deposit needed as non-first time buyers. [24820/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Covid-19 Pandemic (12 May 2021)

Thomas Gould: 131. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide a letter to allow a person (details supplied) to return home on compassionate grounds. [24738/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Amalgamation (12 May 2021)

Thomas Gould: 151. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to a proposed amalgamation of schools (details supplied) in Cork City. [24750/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Amalgamation (12 May 2021)

Thomas Gould: 152. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the recourse available to parents who disagree with proposed major changes to the school their child attends or will attend. [24751/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Catchment Areas (12 May 2021)

Thomas Gould: 153. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on whether it is acceptable that there could be no all-girls school in a large area of Cork city particularly given the vulnerability of certain young girls and the need for same to attend a same-sex school. [24752/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Israeli Settlements (11 May 2021)

Thomas Gould: 72. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the actions he has taken to protect families in forced evictions in east Jerusalem. [24170/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Consular Services (11 May 2021)

Thomas Gould: 85. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the provisions in place to support Irish citizens whose visa has expired but test positive for Covid-19. [24171/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Lending (11 May 2021)

Thomas Gould: 234. To ask the Minister for Finance the support that can be given to persons currently in receipt of the employment wage subsidy scheme indefinitely who cannot drawdown a mortgage. [24273/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (11 May 2021)

Thomas Gould: 922. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that despite a commitment given to the HSE, SouthDoc is refusing to see persons in its Blackpool, County Cork, facility in cases in which they indicate that they cannot travel to Kinsale Road; and if he will engage with SouthDoc on this issue and support the HSE in formally pursuing the full reopening of SouthDoc,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill: Discussion (11 May 2021)

Thomas Gould: I thank AILG and LAMA for their submissions and comments. I was a councillor for 12 years so I completely understand where the councillors are coming from. For years, different Ministers have slandered local authorities for not providing housing. They have blamed local authorities for the problems that we have now and the housing crisis. I want to completely state here that that is not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill: Discussion (11 May 2021)

Thomas Gould: Yes, please.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill: Discussion (11 May 2021)

Thomas Gould: I wish to ask about the local property tax on social housing. Do the witnesses believe that money should be kept within local authorities for services and waived?

Planning and Development (Amendment) (Repeal of Part V Leasing) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 May 2021)

Thomas Gould: I support the Bill and thank Deputy Cian O’Callaghan and everyone involved in bringing it forward. Part V long-term leasing is a cosy deal for developers, which leads to social holding being turned into a commodity under the watch of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael. Part V long-leasing, combined with investment funds buying entire estates, as we have seen this week, will not solve the...

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (6 May 2021)

Thomas Gould: There are three centres in Cork but not one is on the northside. Half of Cork has no vaccination centre.

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (6 May 2021)

Thomas Gould: I have a number of questions. I will take three minutes and give the Minister the remaining time to answer if he could. I was contacted by a lady whose mother is 69 and is housebound. She had received a vaccine appointment for a clinic but she had not received an appointment from the National Ambulance Service to come out to her house. When I contacted the HSE about this, it was...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Staff (6 May 2021)

Thomas Gould: 81. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason there are only three full-time vacant homes officers in the State with none in County Cork. [23532/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (6 May 2021)

Thomas Gould: 82. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on whether affordability and not market value should be the criteria by which costing for cost-rental and affordable housing is judged. [23533/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (6 May 2021)

Thomas Gould: 190. To ask the Minister for Health the provisions that are in place for housebound persons under 70 years of age to receive the Covid-19 vaccine. [23401/21]