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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Local Authorities (15 May 2025)

Thomas Gould: I thank the Minister of State. He said the majority of local authorities were carrying these surveys out. How many local authorities have carried them out? How much of the stock has been surveyed? Are there available figures that the Minister of State can provide me? Cork City Council has 11,000 properties. As far as I know, no stock survey has been done and the Government want to get...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Local Authorities (15 May 2025)

Thomas Gould: In 2021, the then Minister said it and that the maintenance scheme would be put in place in 2022 and 2023. The Government said that. Is the Minister of State now disagreeing with what the previous Minister said? We are looking for facts and figures. When will the surveys be done? I have some figures, so I will give the Minister of State an idea of the allocations. The Government is...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Local Authorities (15 May 2025)

Thomas Gould: I will provide one more figure. In the area of maintenance, the cost is reckoned to be €1,200, but the Government is giving €63.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Local Authorities (15 May 2025)

Thomas Gould: The Government has to fund it, though.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Local Authorities (15 May 2025)

Thomas Gould: What about the people of Cork?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Local Authorities (15 May 2025)

Thomas Gould: People will be homeless-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Local Authorities (15 May 2025)

Thomas Gould: He is the Minister for housing; he will not do a jot.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Local Authorities (15 May 2025)

Thomas Gould: I have 33 families in Cork.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Local Authorities (15 May 2025)

Thomas Gould: Thirty-three families will be homeless in the next few weeks and you will not do anything about it.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Local Authorities (15 May 2025)

Thomas Gould: Tell that to the families becoming homeless.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Local Authorities (15 May 2025)

Thomas Gould: They want me up here shouting because you will not do your job.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Quality (15 May 2025)

Thomas Gould: 46. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on his engagements with Uisce Éireann regarding water quality in Cork. [24897/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child Abuse (15 May 2025)

Thomas Gould: 299. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 566 of 22 January 2024, if the high-level group has reported on the proposed terms of reference; and, if so, when they will be published. [24946/25]

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2025: First Stage (14 May 2025)

Thomas Gould: I apologise.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2025: First Stage (14 May 2025)

Thomas Gould: I apologise, Johnny.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2025: First Stage (14 May 2025)

Thomas Gould: Members go in and out of the Chamber turning their mobile phones on and off. These things happen and I apologise. I commend my colleagues, especially Deputy O'Rourke, on the work they have done on this Bill. Deputy O'Rourke saw a problem and is putting forward solutions. When the Government created Uisce Éireann, it built a company that was so allergic to transparency and...

Trade Union Recognition Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 May 2025)

Thomas Gould: I thank Solidarity and People before Profit for introducing this Bill. I am sure Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett is watching this debate closely today. I wish him all the best. I know everyone else feels the same. I am a proud Irish republican and also a proud union member, which I have been all my working life. Republicans and workers right across this island – workers are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (13 May 2025)

Thomas Gould: I sincerely wish the Minister every success. The elective hospital in Cork is supposed to be ready next year. It is now at design stage and will go to planning next year. It is years behind schedule. We were promised an elective hospital 20 years ago. The Minister is new in her role and I cannot land this on her shoulders, but I can land it on the shoulders of the Fianna Fáil and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Home Care Packages (13 May 2025)

Thomas Gould: The Minister of State has outlined a lot of figures, but from the human point of view, I know a lady who had her own business and who had to work part time to look after her mother. She was sanctioned, she was passed for the hours and they had hours Monday to Friday, but on Saturday and Sunday and in the evening, she had to go in. This is a woman with her own family, and she is travelling...

Housing and Critical Infrastructure: Motion [Private Members] (13 May 2025)

Thomas Gould: The Minister outlined earlier some of the things this Government is doing but he did not outline the Government's plan to fund critical infrastructure. There is no plan to fund it or to deliver the minimum of 50,000 homes a year we need. There is no commitment to implement the radical strategic reset of housing policy the Government needs to deliver. That was the recommendation of the...