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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (1 Oct 2025)

Thomas Gould: 71. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the expansion of a school (details supplied). [52331/25]

Insurance Costs: Motion [Private Members] (30 Sep 2025)

Thomas Gould: I will be honest; this is mind-boggling. Insurance companies have been ripping off the Irish people for as long as I can remember. I am 57 years of age. I have been driving for 39 years and for 39 years these companies have ripped off me and everyone else in this State. People are struggling with the cost of living. They are struggling to put food on the table, to pay the rent and to...

Insurance Costs: Motion [Private Members] (30 Sep 2025)

Thomas Gould: To follow on, I see the Minister of State is reading his notes. When he gets the opportunity to address us, I would like him to explain to us how the companies justify the prices being so high. We understand there are costs to insurance, including the cost of payouts and the costs of administration, but how can the enormous profits these companies are making be justified?

Insurance Costs: Motion [Private Members] (30 Sep 2025)

Thomas Gould: They are making huge profits. What is the Minister of State doing about it?

Insurance Costs: Motion [Private Members] (30 Sep 2025)

Thomas Gould: Has the Government capped these profits?

Insurance Costs: Motion [Private Members] (30 Sep 2025)

Thomas Gould: I am asking a question. The Minister of State is telling me we are wrong. I am asking him a simple question. Has the Government capped these profits? What has it done to tackle them? It is not just insurance.

Insurance Costs: Motion [Private Members] (30 Sep 2025)

Thomas Gould: The Government has done the same with electricity and gas. It lets private sector companies come in and do whatever they want in this country. Not only that, but Europe has allowed the same thing. We have the highest prices for food, insurance, electricity and everything else. Fine Gael has been in government for 14 years and Fianna Fáil has been in government for ten. It was they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Peter McVerry Trust: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Thomas Gould: Also in respect of housing first, it was the way to get people in long-term homelessness into permanent accommodation. The Minister made an announcement last week about supports for housing first, right-sizing and tenant in situ. Is there a budget for this year? Has the Department got a budget? If so, how much is it for those three aspects?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Peter McVerry Trust: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (30 Sep 2025)

Thomas Gould: 190. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated timeline for delivery of the northern distributor road and the northern ring road in Cork. [51724/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (30 Sep 2025)

Thomas Gould: 490. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children attending special schools in Cork for whom a school transport place has been sanctioned but a tender has not yet been awarded. [51810/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (30 Sep 2025)

Thomas Gould: 491. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of tenders for the provision of school transport to special schools in Cork that were not filled which had been filled last year. [51811/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Official Engagements (25 Sep 2025)

Thomas Gould: 49. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for an update on the engagements he has undertaken with a company (details supplied). [50776/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (25 Sep 2025)

Thomas Gould: 74. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the criteria for inclusion in the ICOB re-application. [50777/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (25 Sep 2025)

Thomas Gould: 123. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on the abolition of means test for carer's allowance. [50775/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (25 Sep 2025)

Thomas Gould: 160. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the average processing time for an urgent needs payment in Cork. [50774/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Derelict Sites (25 Sep 2025)

Thomas Gould: 292. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of sites on the derelict sites register on 31 December 2024; the amount levied in 2024; the amount collected; the cumulative amount owed; the number of sites for which CPO notices were issued; the number of sites CPO’d; the number of sites for which derelict sites register notices were issued; and the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (25 Sep 2025)

Thomas Gould: 339. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the implementation of SMA screening in the newborn heel prick test. [50959/25]

Child Poverty and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2025)

Thomas Gould: A number of Deputies have referenced the more than 5,000 children who are now homeless and living in emergency accommodation. That figure is actually much bigger because people are living in overcrowded accommodation, with three generations of families in one home, children growing up in box rooms and so on. I mean it sincerely when I say that it is going to get worse. I know that because...

School Transport: Statements (23 Sep 2025)

Thomas Gould: Last week, I stood here and outlined cases of children who cannot get buses. Children with additional needs cannot get transport to special schools. There were places made available but, once again, these children are being let down. Just to let the Minister of State know, in the past week only one family has got school transport. Do you know how it got it? It went to a solicitor. Are...