Results 61-80 of 5,652 for speaker:Thomas Gould

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (10 Apr 2025)

Thomas Gould: 363. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children with an address in Cork whose parents have received notification of a review into hip dysplasia surgeries. [18106/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (10 Apr 2025)

Thomas Gould: 386. To ask the Minister for Health the amount paid by each of the Cork hospitals to taxi firms in each of the past five years respectively, in tabular form. [18184/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Transfers (10 Apr 2025)

Thomas Gould: 387. To ask the Minister for Health whether a patient who is to be transferred between healthcare facilities via taxi could instead be driven by a family member or friend. [18185/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (8 Apr 2025)

Thomas Gould: Can we have a few seconds?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (8 Apr 2025)

Thomas Gould: If he did, I did not hear it. There are 97 children in Cork with no place for September-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (8 Apr 2025)

Thomas Gould: Carrignavar is only over the road. Irish Water has not been able to get a drop of water out there since-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (8 Apr 2025)

Thomas Gould: That is not me saying it; that is the EPA saying it. There is no way that school is going to be open.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (8 Apr 2025)

Thomas Gould: The Minister of State is coming in here telling people a school will be open but it will not be.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (8 Apr 2025)

Thomas Gould: There are ten houses built in Carrignavar that cannot be connected to the water-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (8 Apr 2025)

Thomas Gould: -----and you are talking about opening a school.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Schools Building Projects (8 Apr 2025)

Thomas Gould: The Minister spoke about school completions, the number of people working on them and the work that is being done. My eldest daughter will be 19 in less than two weeks. She attended Gaelscoil Pheig Sayers when she was five. I was on the board of management. A new school is going to be built, probably in two or three years. It has been sanctioned and is going through design. Gaelscoil...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (8 Apr 2025)

Thomas Gould: The Minister of State made a point about school places in Cork and Kerry. We have schools that are looking to put in ASD classes. They are crying out for ASD classes. Scoil Eoin in Ballincollig is looking to put them in, but it cannot. It has no room. It is waiting on a rebuild. It looks like Scoil Barra in Ballincollig will be offered prefabs. It has land it wants to build on to put...

Water Services (Repeal of Water Charges) Bill 2025: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Apr 2025)

Thomas Gould: Gabhaim buíochas. Officials from Uisce Éireann met with Cork City Council last night. They refused to attend the meeting if it was in public and failed to answer many of the legitimate questions posed by councillors. I met them in February and I was told I would receive responses to my questions that evening. It took a full month before I got a response back. Uisce...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Apr 2025)

Thomas Gould: The Taoiseach will have seen the campaign run by parents to get special school places for their children both nationally and in Cork. They have fought a Trojan campaign. There was an announcement last week that there would be additional places but it is an absolute scandal that parents must go out and fight for their children's right to an education. In 2022, there was an announcement for...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Apr 2025)

Thomas Gould: Yes.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Apr 2025)

Thomas Gould: Taoiseach, it was Irish Water-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Apr 2025)

Thomas Gould: It is Irish Water that cannot facilitate this. There is no capacity in Carrignavar.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Consultations (3 Apr 2025)

Thomas Gould: 71. To ask the Minister for Finance to report on the latest briefing he received from his Department on the delivery of housing. [15232/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (3 Apr 2025)

Thomas Gould: 100. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is aware of an unfair regional balancing in Capital spending under the NDP given Cork’s potential to counterbalance Dublin. [15234/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Functions (3 Apr 2025)

Thomas Gould: 134. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the role his Department takes in the oversight of value for money exercises. [15233/25]