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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)

Thomas Gould: The Minister is saying that for 13 years when Fine Gael was in government, its housing policy-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)

Thomas Gould: The Minister said nothing was built for ten years. Those were the Minister's words. He said there were ten years of undersupply. There were ten years of Fine Gael undersupply.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)

Thomas Gould: I am conscious of the time limits.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)

Thomas Gould: I have two questions. I support the roll-out of cost rental but in Cork, 32 properties were available for cost rental and 900 people applied. That means 868 people or families did not get a property. Every week, people are devastated because they cannot get cost rental, affordable or social housing. There is a problem in Cork with Uisce Éireann's inability to deliver clean water to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)

Thomas Gould: I ask the Minister to take up the matter.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)

Thomas Gould: Unfortunately, Senator Cummins might not know. I will explain how it works.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Jun 2024)

Thomas Gould: Last week, I was contacted by a constituent who had received a letter from Cork City Council stating it had no emergency accommodation. All it was short of saying was that there was no room at the inn and people should go out to the stable. The crisis in emergency accommodation and homelessness in Cork is now so bad there is nowhere to put people. I received an email from a husband and...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Jun 2024)

Thomas Gould: I asked about the homeless. These people are homeless today, not in 16 months' time.

Committee on Drugs Use: Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)

Thomas Gould: I thank the representatives for a great piece of work. It is a very complicated piece of work on the part of everyone who was involved in the citizens' assembly. Sometimes, citizens' assemblies can be used to tackle very complex questions and maybe give the Government cover when it needs to deal with those questions. There are 36 recommendations. The committee now has a job of work to do...

Committee on Drugs Use: Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)

Thomas Gould: I thank the Leas-Chathaoirleach. I apologise, as I had to step out for a few minutes. To go back to comments made about the new drugs strategy not coming out until 2025, is this not a kick in the teeth to everyone who is involved with drug treatment or with helping people in addiction and recovery and even to the citizens' assembly itself? This is the type of attitude the Department, led...

Committee on Drugs Use: Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)

Thomas Gould: First, I want to say any death on the road is a tragedy. We have seen an increase in road deaths and loads of work needs to be done to try to bring those figures down. For any families involved this is not meant to hurt them personally but, when you look at the type of action the Government is taking in response to road deaths and the money it is putting in, and then you see the number of...

Committee on Drugs Use: Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)

Thomas Gould: I raised this issue in the Dáil yesterday. I am dealing with a lady who is 12 months in recovery and Cork County Council will not house her. She was in the throes of addiction because she was being abused by her partner at the time, both physically and mentally. She got away from her partner, got a barring order and got into recovery. She is a year into recovery and is trying to get...

Committee on Drugs Use: Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)

Thomas Gould: I want to clarify to that it was Cork County Council and not Cork City Council.

Committee on Drugs Use: Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)

Thomas Gould: I will touch on the attitude of senior management within An Garda Síochána, the lack of community gardaí and the lack of resources the Garda have. Is the reason the Garda does not want to go and change the status quo because it knows it does not have the resources to work a new system? At the moment there is a system that most people would acknowledge is broken. Why would...

Committee on Drugs Use: Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use: Discussion (13 Jun 2024)

Thomas Gould: On that last point, each of the 31 local authorities have different definitions. When people apply for social housing and if they have had a criminal record within the previous five years, it can prevent them from being housed. To me this definition is for people who are involved in serious criminality not for the person who may have been driving with no insurance, who maybe was caught for...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Addiction Treatment Services (13 Jun 2024)

Thomas Gould: 136. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that the map of drug and alcohol services shows a gap in provision in large areas of the State; and his plans to remedy this. [25824/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (13 Jun 2024)

Thomas Gould: 137. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that the service transfer plan for the transfer of paediatric oncology services from MUH to CUH includes the potential use of adult beds, with no plan to replace these beds. [25825/24]

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)

Thomas Gould: The amendments go to the heart of social and affordable and cost-rental targets. To give the Minister of State an insight, in Cork, 32 cost-rental properties came on the market from Cork City Council. Some 900 people or couples applied for them. That is why targets are so important. Do not get me wrong. It probably changed the lives of those who got the 32 properties, but imagine the...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)

Thomas Gould: That is an outrageous comment.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)

Thomas Gould: If you are elected, you are elected.