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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.

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

Thomas Gould: Ceann Comhairle, I made no such comment.

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

Thomas Gould: Every TD in here is equal, whether they are elected on the first count or the tenth count.

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

Thomas Gould: I will not repeat what other Deputies have said. I will speak to the national planning framework and the decision not to bring it before the Houses of the Oireachtas. Deputy Ó Broin made the point that backbenchers can go back to their local radio stations and newspapers and say the situation is all wrong and it is the fault of the big, bad people in An Bord Pleanála and the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (11 Jun 2024)

Thomas Gould: 144.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the legislative or regulatory provisions governing taxi vehicles driving in bus lanes. [25175/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Regulations (11 Jun 2024)

Thomas Gould: 145.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the legislative or regulatory provisions governing taxi vehicles driving in bus lanes. [25175/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (11 Jun 2024)

Thomas Gould: 372.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason equity share monetary values in affordable housing have been limited based on density. [24691/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (11 Jun 2024)

Thomas Gould: 502.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection what financial support is available for a person with coeliac disease, on the state pension, for the purchase of food. [25569/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (11 Jun 2024)

Thomas Gould: 741.To ask the Minister for Health the reason services are being removed from MUH if adult beds in CUH may be needed to meet need for these services; and whether consideration has been given to retaining paediatric beds in MUH pending full capacity capability in CUH. [24945/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Traveller Accommodation (30 May 2024)

Thomas Gould: Will the Minister update the House on the implementation of the recommendations of the expert group on Traveller accommodation?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Traveller Accommodation (30 May 2024)

Thomas Gould: I thank the Minister of State. In my constituency there is a major development of the Spring Lane halting site. We have made a number of observations and Cork City Council has taken a lot of them on board. We have done a lot of work with the Traveller community on this site and with the broader community because we want the development to work. We particularly want it to work for the...