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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Schemes (25 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: I will take the 60 seconds, if you do not mind.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Functions (25 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: 104. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the role his Department takes in monitoring air quality [3382/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Functions (25 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: Last night we saw an initiative in Cork City Council called the clean air night. While it is a good idea and perhaps a good initiative in getting people aware about reducing air pollution, there are only three air quality monitors on the northside of Cork, in Montenotte, Mallow and Gurranabraher. There are six on the southside. I do not think six are enough on the southside, but certainly...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (25 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: 73. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether he will reconsider his position on the ICJ case on Palestine and join with South Africa. [3380/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Infrastructure (25 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: 111. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to consider a distribution box at T23EK68 to extend broadband to the home. [3381/24]

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: I will just finish with this. Some 25,000 people have been murdered. If that is not genocide, what is? I implore the Taoiseach, from my heart, to please lead this Government and the Irish people. We will support him if he stands up in respect of this matter.

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: Just over two minutes is not enough time to do justice to the need to discuss the atrocities taking place in Palestine. As children wake up without parents, mothers lose their entire families and worlds, and communities get wiped out, this Government has an important role to play. Israel is creating an entire generation of parentless children and childless parents. It is not killing its...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Visa Agreements (24 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: 56. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he can provide support to a person (details supplied) who cannot get an ESTA due to having previously visited Cuba. [3294/24]

Housing and Homeless Prevention: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: Last year, 88 families and 166 children entered emergency accommodation in Cork city. In April, after the Government cruelly lifted the eviction ban, 32 children were forced to leave their homes and to sleep in a hotel, almost double the number in March. Cork city Accommodation Placement Service saw a 26% increase in the number of presentations, and a total of 938 individuals. It saw a 49%...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: Last February, it was confirmed to me by the Minister with responsibility for housing that Cork City Council was considering a regeneration park for the Tarry Path in Mayfield. In December, it was confirmed to me that there has been no update on this. The Mayfield area is in desperate need of regeneration. We have heard today about the impact on people of mould and damp in Oliver Bond...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Personal Public Service Numbers (23 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: 338. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason a person is required to provide a PPS number for the voting register; how this information is processed; and whether failure to provide a PPS number will result in removal from the electoral register. [2443/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (23 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: 632. To ask the Minister for Health the number of paediatric emergency beds currently available in Cork; and the number that will be available after facilities have moved to CUH. [2892/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (23 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: 633. To ask the Minister for Health whether paediatric haematalogy and oncology units will be moved from the Mercy University hospital to CUH; when this will happen; and the engagement with parents to support them in this move. [2893/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (23 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: 634. To ask the Minister for Health whether paediatric staff in Mercy University Hospital have been reallocated within the same hospital pending the move to CUH; whether this will happen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2894/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Affordable Homes, Public Lands, Strategic Planning and Projects: Land Development Agency (23 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: On the LDA website, it announced that the first homes on the St. Kevin's Hospital site in Cork would be available in 2023. The latest update we got last year was that the first homes would now not be available until 2025. This is a two-year delay in one of the LDA's flagship projects. What has caused this delay and will the homes be delivered in 2025?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Affordable Homes, Public Lands, Strategic Planning and Projects: Land Development Agency (23 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: Has the LDA engaged with the NTA regarding public transport because there is no public transport there? I raised this matter when I put in a submission about the development of the site. I have been advocating the development of St. Kevin's site since 2011. Comments were made earlier about delivery according to timelines and the success of the LDA. I am frustrated that the site has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Affordable Homes, Public Lands, Strategic Planning and Projects: Land Development Agency (23 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: We see new housing developments in Cork. There is one on the Old Mallow Road but there is no bus service. We are talking about global warming and climate change but we are building housing estates where families will be forced to have multiple cars. That is why I am really anxious to have sustainable transport corridors and services at the St. Kevin's site. My other point is on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Affordable Homes, Public Lands, Strategic Planning and Projects: Land Development Agency (23 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: As part of the agreement when the new prison was built, commitments were given to the community in the Glen and surrounding areas. Anything that happens on the site will have to involve discussions with the local community. Have the witnesses any idea of the rent for the St. Kevin's site? It is probably sensitive information but I would like a ballpark figure. Will the rents be affordable?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Affordable Homes, Public Lands, Strategic Planning and Projects: Land Development Agency (23 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: The only point I would make – Deputy Ó Broin made it earlier – is that our concern is that people who cannot qualify for social housing because they are just over the threshold will be caught. I ask the witnesses to be very conscious of that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Affordable Homes, Public Lands, Strategic Planning and Projects: Land Development Agency (23 Jan 2024)

Thomas Gould: Following on from Senator Fitzpatrick, is the figure she mentioned of €470,000 to build a property the cost of building a three-bedroom terraced house in Dublin? If it is, and we are looking at affordable and social housing, at the current rates of rents and house prices increasing, that means in the next year or two, the average standard terraced house will cost €500,000....